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Women in Tech: Overcoming Challenges and Creating Change

Jun 20, 20235 min read

Women in Tech: Overcoming Challenges and Creating Change

Although women make up 50.04% of the United States labor force, in technology fields, they are still underrepresented. According to the...

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Significant Influence: Recommended books for reimagining, revisiting, and reminding

Dr. Hope Dugan

Apr 13, 20239 min read

Significant Influence: Recommended books for reimagining, revisiting, and reminding

So many books...so little time! I am a voracious reader and devour everything from hard science to light beach reads. I read a fair...

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Dr. Hope Dugan

Apr 4, 20238 min read

Coaching the Resistant Client

I love being a coach. It is a great joy to help someone gain greater skills or step into their own power. Most of my clients have been...

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Dr. Hope Dugan

Mar 26, 20234 min read

Grief in the Age of Social Media

The experience of modern mourning has become increasingly complex. While social media platforms can provide a space for people to share...

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How Leadership Coaching Supports Principal Retention

Dr. Hope Dugan

Mar 22, 20233 min read

How Leadership Coaching Supports Principal Retention

The principal shortage that began more than a decade ago has increased significantly as fewer people enter the profession and more leave...

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Evict the Psychotic Roommate in Your Head and Live Your Best Life

Dr. Hope Dugan

Mar 5, 20235 min read

Evict the Psychotic Roommate in Your Head and Live Your Best Life

Have you ever had days where your thoughts sound like this? “You are stupid and lazy!” “You will never amount to anything!” “Did you...

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Dr. Hope Dugan

Sep 22, 20225 min read

Avoiding Cognitive Bias at Work

As a leader, you make countless decisions every day that impact the people you serve, and those decisions may have far-reaching impacts....

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Dr. Hope Dugan

Aug 8, 20225 min read

Pomodoro Productivity

Pomodoro means tomato in Italian. But what do tomatoes have to do with being more productive? Brain research indicates that the average...

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Productivity Hacks - 3 Tools to Make Your Work Life Easier

Dr. Hope Dugan

Jul 25, 20225 min read

Productivity Hacks - 3 Tools to Make Your Work Life Easier

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” ~Goethe Knowing what you need to do and prioritizing...

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Why Teachers Deserve Personalized Professional Learning

Dr. Hope Dugan

Jul 23, 20223 min read

Why Teachers Deserve Personalized Professional Learning

We’ve all been there. Sitting in a half-day professional learning that is either not relevant to our current job, or worse, presented at...

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Dr. Hope Dugan

Jul 17, 20223 min read

The Empowered Principal

The principal’s role is complex and complicated. Additionally, it can feel lonely and even the strongest leaders have moments of doubt....

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We have a TON of technology...but is it making a difference for students?

Dr. Hope Dugan

Sep 14, 20184 min read

We have a TON of technology...but is it making a difference for students?

As I visit schools and districts, one thing consistently stands out: people like to talk about technology. A lot. Conversations about...

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Supporting School Change: Pushback, Struggle and Fatigue

Katrina Schwarz

Aug 6, 20182 min read

Supporting School Change: Pushback, Struggle and Fatigue

Technology, and the integration thereof, impacts many aspects of education. Making the shift to personalized environments, integrating...

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An Analogy: Personalized Learning is a Philosophy, Not a Fad

Bernard Bull

Apr 11, 20183 min read

An Analogy: Personalized Learning is a Philosophy, Not a Fad

While reading the biography of an educational entrepreneur that I interviewed for an episode of my podcast, the MoonshotEdu Show, this...

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Why AI Will Not Replace Effective Teachers

Dr. Hope Dugan

Apr 5, 20189 min read

Why AI Will Not Replace Effective Teachers

By Dr. Hope Dugan March 2018 The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter for an infinite...

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Personalizing Professional Development For Teachers, By Teachers

Pat Phillips

Jan 4, 20184 min read

Personalizing Professional Development For Teachers, By Teachers

By Pat Phillips What do students need to be successful? Why not ask them directly? When we posed this question to our students at...

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