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The Musician’s Lens
You’ve probably heard about viewing the world through a Scientific Lens, but what about a Musician’s Lens? What might that look like, and why might more educators adopt this way of looking at teaching...
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Bill Selak Talks About a DIY Apprenticeship
In your early 20s, you really don’t need to have everything figured out. I’m glad I didn’t. In this episode, I share how following what matters to you–particularly in your 20s, but also throughout...
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Bill Selak Talks About 2022 Goals
I am talking about my professional goals for the 2021-2022 year. Spoiler alert… here are the goals: Advance diversity, equity, and inclusion work. Upgrade and fine tune Hillbrook’s technology...
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Better, Faster, Cheaper, Easier: Bill Selak Talks Ep 78
Technology in education keeps getting better, faster, cheaper, and easier. In this episode, I talk about how the audio plugin Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations completely changes how you can...
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MxPx and the Complexities of Change in Education
What is good teaching? It’s complex. It’s not easily replicable. Let’s listen to an MxPx song, and hear why that song accomplishes its goal, but why my songs don’t.
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How my Values Inform the Leader I’m Becoming
I’ve learned so much this year in my leadership coaching with Aimee Giles. We’ve talked a lot about my values–imagine the islands from the movie Inside Out… that’s what we’ve created, and what we use...
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High Impact, Low Effort… and an 80s Parody Music Video
As school leaders, how do we have a high impact on our school’s culture without adding another thing to teachers’ plates? Where’s that sweet spot where you get high impact with low effort? My answer...
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Bill Selak Talks About Finding That One Perfect Word
As my phone auto-played a song this morning, I was vividly reminded about the hour we spent in 2002 at Orange Whip Recording Studio with the band Bad Astronaut trying to find the one perfect lyric....
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Keepers of the Magic
I am not impressive to my fourth grader, nor are most (all?) of the things I share with her. But… there are some extraordinary, dare I say magical, things that exist in the world that did not exist...
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I Can’t Live Without You
Device-free time can be magical in a classroom (and at home). Lots of learning happens without devices. Lots. But… what does a school like when you can’t imagine it without devices? Without the...
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