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Relationships Matter: How Can Schools Make Relationship Data Visible?
EdSurge - 9/1/22

“Last month, a new study in Nature revealed a key predictor of economic mobility: connectedness. Specifically, researchers at Opportunity Insights found that relationships with higher-income students dramatically improved low-income students’ chances of upward mobility in adulthood, even more than traditional success metrics like school quality.”
“Designing Work That People Love”
Harvard Business Review - 5/1/22

“Creating a place where all people can find love in their work means incorporating three principles in everything your business does: The people are the point. Employees, rather than customers or shareholders, are the most important stakeholders in your organization. One size fits one. Each of those employees is a unique person with distinct loves, interests, and skills. In trust we grow. For employees to discover and contribute their loves at work, leaders must explicitly make trust the foundation of all practices and policies.”
Building Your Daily Schedule: Are You A Maker, Manager, Or Both?
Farnam Street - 11/20/21

“What we can learn from reading about the schedules of people we admire is not what time to set our alarms or how many cups of coffee to drink, but that different types of work require different types of schedules.”
What Happens When You Actually Reimagine School? This Does.
Cult of Pedagogy - 5/2/21

“Currently nearing the end of its second school year, this high school is the end product of a group of brave, forward-thinking educators who saw what education could be, and instead of trying to work within the system, asked themselves, “Why don’t we just build it?””
From Expertise To Generalists And Lifelong Learning: The Case Of The USS Gabrielle Giffords
Atlantic - 7/1/19

“Minimal manning—and with it, the replacement of specialized workers with problem-solving generalists—isn’t a particularly nautical concept. Indeed, it will sound familiar to anyone in an organization who’s been asked to “do more with less”—which, these days, seems to be just about everyone… In 20 years, we’ll know a lot more about the costs and benefits of minimal manning and lifelong learning. But nobody on the Giffords was pondering that after the crew finished its unloading job… Everybody I met on the Giffords seemed to share that mentality. They regarded every minute on board—even during a routine transit back to port in San Diego Harbor—as a chance to learn something new.”

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How To Craft Your Teaching Job To Be The Best It Can Be For You
ASCD - 8/1/18

"We make countless choices to change how we interact with our job. Each of these choices influences how we feel about teaching. Psychologists call these choices "job crafting." Job crafting, say psychologists Amy Wrzesniewski and Jane E. Dutton, is the actions employees take to redesign their work in order to foster engagement, satisfaction, resilience, and thriving. This means being intentional about how we engage with the tasks, people, and purpose that compose our careers.”
On The Importance Of Having A Best Friend At Work
Gallup - 1/15/18

"Our research has repeatedly shown a concrete link between having a best friend at work and the amount of effort employees expend in their job. For example, women who strongly agree they have a best friend at work are more than twice as likely to be engaged (63%) compared with the women who say otherwise (29%). However, let's put the science aside for one moment and look more holistically at what's happening in the workforce.”
5 Types Of Communities, And How To Find Your Tribe When You Don’t Fit In.
TED - 8/30/17

“To find your people, you have to know how to signal your passions and interests and seek out theirs. But you can also search Google, or scan LinkedIn profiles and send “Connect with Me” notices. You can tweet links about what you’re interested in, or leave comments on an Instagram feed. Here is a brief taxonomy that identifies five different types of communities you can tap into.”
“I'm Teaching Kids Way More Than They're Teaching Me” [Humor]
McSweeney’s - 8/22/17

"What I never imagined was that these kids would end up teaching me more than I could ever teach them. And it’s good that I never imagined that, because it hasn’t happened at all… I am an unstoppable teaching machine, whereas my students are like a different kind of machine that just happens to do a little bit of teaching inadvertently.”
The UK Parliament No Longer Requires Ties (Watch The Video)
Quartz - 6/29/17

"The debate started when Peter Bone, a Conservative MP, enquired as to why a tie-less MP had been allowed to ask a question the previous day. In days gone by, this would have been viewed as an impertinent… Watch the video above to see John Bercow, the Speaker of Britain’s House of Commons, wrangle with the notion of updating a centuries-old tradition of formal wear. The glorious exchange includes whether women should also be obliged to wear ties.”
Is Your School A “Thick Institution”?
New York Times - 4/18/17

"A thick institution is not one that people use instrumentally, to get a degree or to earn a salary. A thick institution becomes part of a person’s identity and engages the whole person: head, hands, heart and soul.”
Apollo School Has A Four-Hour, Team Taught, Morning Class Every Day
Cult of Pedagogy - 2/12/17

"Apollo is a semester-long, four-hour block of classes—English, social studies, and art—all blended together and co-taught by three teachers, one from each subject area. Throughout the semester, students are responsible for designing and completing four major projects, each of which is aligned with standards in all three subject areas. Students set their own goals for each day based on whatever project they happen to be working on at the time: This includes independent and group work, one-on-one appointments with teachers, and attending optional, self-selected mini lessons taught by the teachers. By lunch time, when the Apollo block is over, students resume a regular schedule for the rest of the day.”
A Summary Of The Research On Sleep, School Start Time, And Success
Kappan - 1/1/17

"As we started our yearlong study, the evidence began piling up. Our research team found amazing changes were happening. Students were now awake the first hour of class, the principal reported fewer disciplinary incidents in the halls and lunchroom, and students reported less depression and feelings of greater efficacy. Over 92% of the parents said their kids were “easier to live with.””
Teachers: Take A Break During The Holiday, Your Health May Depend On It
Guardian - 12/17/16

"The research asked teachers to complete a survey at the end of eight weeks – capturing their feelings before, during and after the Christmas break in 2013. It found that teachers who continued to worry about work during their holidays were less likely to recover from the demands of the term, while those who satisfied their basic psychological needs (competence, autonomy and feeling connected to others) improved their mental health.”
Does A Happy School Climate Mean More Successful Students?
NPR - 11/1/16

"A study published in the Review of Educational Research today suggests that school climate is something educators and communities should prioritize — especially as a way to bridge the elusive achievement gap. The authors analyzed more than 15 years of research on schools worldwide, and found that positive school climate had a significant impact on academics.”
How Promoting Nonconformity Strengthens Your Organization
Harvard Business Review - 10/1/16

"Of course, not all conformity is bad. But to be successful and evolve, organizations need to strike a balance between adherence to the formal and informal rules that provide necessary structure and the freedom that helps employees do their best work… Let’s look at the three main, and interrelated, reasons why we so often conform at work… Six strategies can help leaders encourage constructive nonconformity in their organizations and themselves.”
Higher Ed Invests In Spaces For Creative Work
New York Times - 8/4/16

"The rationales for these buildings are varied: Employers are dissatisfied with graduates’ preparation, students are unhappy with outdated teaching methods, and colleges want to attract students whose eyes are on postgrad venture capital and whose scalable ideas might come in handy on campus. And so universities of all sizes, both public (Wichita State, University of Utah, University of Iowa) and private (Cornell, Northwestern, Stanford), have opened or are planning such facilities.”
“The End Of The Office Dress Code”
New York Times - 5/26/16

"“There’s a strain of thought that says an employee represents a company, and thus dress is not about personal expression, but company expression,” Professor Scafidi said. “But there’s a counterargument that believes because we identify so much with our careers, we should be able to be ourselves at work.” And that has led to all sorts of complications. One person’s “appropriate” can easily be another’s “disgraceful,” and words like “professional,” when used to describe dress requirements, can seem so vague as to be almost meaningless.”
A Wordy But Thoughtful Philosophical Reflection On Pace And Time
Huffington Post - 4/7/16

"In essence, this means that if one has no time, one has also lost oneself. Distracted by the obligations of everyday activities, we are no longer aware of ourselves. If we rush from one thing to another and don’t miss a single event scheduled for our free time, we will accumulate many experiences. Yet if we never allow ourselves to calm down but always set out immediately for the next activity, the danger emerges that we will lose ourselves senselessly in a mad rush. In keeping with the philosophical reflections offered above, this means: no time, no self.”
Support For Later Start Time Grows
Boston Globe - 3/10/16

"Now, several high schools across Massachusetts are exploring whether to follow suit. The push for later start times is emerging in such districts as Belmont, Boston, Masconomet, Mashpee, Newton, and Wayland. The state Legislature is considering a bill to study the issue statewide.”
Stress Is Fear, And Relationships Make It Go Away
Fast Company - 2/8/16

"The point is that relationships among employees can help disperse fear across an organization, rather than forcing individuals to carry those burdens alone. The encouragement and goodwill alone that those connections generate can improve employees' mental, emotional, and even physical health. What's more, the know-how and resources that come from associating with capable people help teams develop collaborative skills for dealing with fear-inducing episodes.”
The Challenge Of Being An Introverted Teacher
Atlantic - 1/25/16

"A few studies suggest that introverted teachers—especially those who may have falsely envisioned teaching as a career involving calm lectures, one-on-one interactions, and grading papers quietly with a cup of tea—are at risk of burning out. And when these teachers leave for alternate careers, it comes at a cost to individual children and school districts at large.”
Survey: What Causes Teachers Stress
EdSurge - 5/19/15

"Amongst major factors contributing to teacher stress, the survey results cite the adoption of new initiatives without proper PD (71%) and the negative portrayal of educators in the media (55%) as the two biggest factors. The survey results also identified the top three ‘everyday stressors in the classroom’ as mandated curriculum, large class size, and standardized testing.”
I Gave A TEDx Talk: Why Pausing Makes Us More Of Who We Are
TEDx / YouTube - 4/20/15

“The momentary pause in Beethoven’s fifth, periods of prolonged sleep, the wait time after a question: these are moments when we gather up the past [stimulus] and create a future [response] that belongs more to our imagination and critical thought and less to our instinct. Moments of pause bring creative insight, analytical acuity, vision.”
The Library As Facilitator Of Classroom Innovation
Chronicle of Higher Education - 4/10/15

"The added value is using these spaces for other purposes: workshops, seminars, symposiums, exhibits, showcases, media labs, meeting rooms, study rooms, group work rooms, tutoring rooms, and other activities. So there is a functional layer. We can teach more. We can teach differently. Other people can also teach more and differently as well. We can partner more with them on instruction and other projects. When the rooms are not “classrooms” they can serve a multitude of other needs.”
Understanding Pace: Time, Attention, And Boundaries
N+1 - 12/1/14

"If in classical modernity people could imagine their lives in intergenerational terms… in late capitalism, turnover is so accelerated that it becomes hard to imagine one’s life course even within a few years, let alone a few generations. This in turn drives a sense of the acceleration of the 'pace of life,' the psychological feeling of always being out of breath — which in turn drives the desire for more labor-saving technology, and technical change."
Collaboration Improves Motivation, Persistence, Energy...
Stanford - 9/15/14

“When people were treated as though they were working together they: persisted 48 to 64 percent longer on a challenging task, reported more interest in the task, became less tired by having to persist on the task... became more engrossed in the task and performed better on it, and finally, when people were encouraged to reflect on how their interest in the puzzle was relevant to their personal values and identity, people chose to do 53 percent more related tasks in a separate setting one to two weeks later.“
Can This Organization Solve the Issue of Pace?
New York Times - 6/1/14

“Employees are vastly more satisfied and productive, it turns out, when four of their core needs are met: physical, through opportunities to regularly renew and recharge at work; emotional, by feeling valued and appreciated for their contributions; mental, when they have the opportunity to focus in an absorbed way on their most important tasks and define when and where they get their work done; and spiritual, by doing more of what they do best and enjoy most, and by feeling connected to a higher purpose at work.”
Do Buildings or Culture Affect Student Achievement More?
Forbes - 5/9/14

“It has long been known that various aspects of the built environment impact on people in buildings, but this is the first time a holistic assessment has been made that successfully links the overall impact directly to learning rates in schools”
On Building a War Room (Why Every Leader Needs White Boards)
Fast Company - 5/1/14

“[They] help your team work better together. When you capture every decision and put it on the wall, you don’t have to wonder if everyone is on the same page. The room is the page. The more you put on the walls, the more shared understanding you build.”
Harvard Designs New Spaces to Promote Innovation, Interaction
Harvard Magazine - 2/19/14

“The report begins with a series of stage-setting adjectives, meant to capture SEAS faculty members’ aspirations for their new campus: ‘Open. Connected. Active. Transparent. Livable. Sunlit. Social. Flexible.’”
Do More Through the Disciplined Pursuit of Doing Less
Stanford Graduate School of Business - 2/10/14

“When people really get a chance to think, to have the space... they can quite easily discern between the things that are essential to them and those that are not. The problem is not our ability to discern, it’s that we don’t have the space to take the time to discern.”
6 Principles for Designing the Ideal School
KQED - 2/5/14

“[Three teachers] traveled across the country documenting noteworthy teaching practices at district public schools, charter, private, and parochial schools."
How Do You Increase Productivity and Lower Stress? Stop Emailing.
New York Times - 1/19/14

“Ms Mark’s research has found that people who stopped using email at work felt less stress and were more focused and productive.”
How Do You Increase Productivity and Lower Stress? Stop Emailing.
New York Times - 1/19/14

“Ms Mark’s research has found that people who stopped using email at work felt less stress and were more focused and productive.”
3 Broad Tips For Promoting Meaningful, Creative Work
Fast Company - 12/21/13

"Prospecting and mining the past to gain a deep understanding of where things come from and why they exist is hugely important to creating meaningful new things.”
“The Right Way To Come Back From A Vacation”
Harvard Business Review - 9/6/11

“First, let your last night before work still be vacation, or at least your personal time. Don’t open your email or check your voicemail. Unpack, do laundry, make your kids’ lunches if you have kids and they need lunches — but don’t get back to work until you’re back at work.”

workplace

“Help Every Employee Chart A Career Path”
MIT Sloan Management Review - 3/2/23
Survey Data On Current Teacher & Leader Attrition And Retention
McKinsey - 3/2/23
On The Importance Of Friendships At Work
NPR - 2/24/23
Morale Is Higher For Students Right Now
EdWeek - 2/24/23
Morale Is Low For Adults Right Now
EdWeek - 2/24/23

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On The Transformative Power Of Sabbaticals
Harvard Business Review - 2/22/23
Teacher And Student Motivation: In Charts
EdWeek - 2/21/23
Later School Start Times Showing Better Rested Kids (And Better Learning)
Edutopia - 2/17/23
What Is Psychological Safety?
Harvard Business Review - 2/15/23
Does Being Physically Together Help? (Yes.)
Steve Blank - 2/14/23
When A Vacation Isn’t Enough: A Sabbatical Can Recharge You
Harvard Business Review - 2/14/23
“What Is Productivity?”
McKinsey - 2/13/23
What are Microstresses?
Harvard Business Review - 2/7/23

“In this article we will describe how we came to understand microstress, where it comes from, and how our bodies respond to it. We have grouped the most common sources of microstress into three categories so that you can understand how they arise in your life. And finally, we’ll explain how you can push back on microstress to feel more in control, strengthen your relationships, and improve your overall well-being.”
Interview With Cal Newport About How To Control Your Digital Worklife
New York Times - 1/22/23
On Improving The “Middle Skills” Gap With Community Colleges
Harvard - 12/12/22
On The Dangers Of Gamification
New Republic - 12/7/22
“When Algorithms Rule, Values Can Wither”
MIT Sloan Management Review - 12/5/22

“How can managers and organizations that need or want to leverage these technologies protect multiple values in their decisions and routines to avoid the tyranny of technique? We propose that adhering to three principles can help: 1) Beware of proxies and scaling effects. 2) Strategically insert human interventions into your algorithmic decision-making. 3) Create evaluative systems that account for multiple values. We’ll look more closely at each of these principles below.”
Detailed Research: Does The 4-Day Week Work?
RAND Corporation - 12/1/22
Working More Doesn’t Mean More Success
Fast Company - 11/20/22
7 Keys To Promoting Retention In On Site Workers
Gallup - 11/15/22
GenZ In The Workplace: What Does The Data Say?
Gallup - 11/11/22
On Doing Work When Everyone Is Angry
Harvard Business Review - 11/9/22
Hybrid Work Schedules: What Do People Want? What Works Best?
Gallup - 11/7/22
Ten Ideas For How To Reduce The Number Of Meetings
Medium - 11/7/22
135 Students, 1 Classroom, 4 Teachers — And They Love It?
Hechinger Report - 11/3/22
Some Research On How To Decorate A Classroom
Middle Web - 10/25/22
“School Start Times And Outcomes For Younger Students”
SagePub - 10/12/22
“What If Burnout Is Less About Work And More About Isolation?”
New York Times - 10/9/22
Linda Darling-Hammond On The New Teacher Workplace
ASCD - 10/1/22
Extreme Heat Impairs Learning
Hechinger Report - 9/16/22
Teacher Vision Statements Can Galvanize The Year
ASCD - 9/7/22
“How To Steer A Drifting Culture”
Gallup - 8/31/22
Alas. Research On The 4-Day School Week Is Unfavorable
Hechinger Report - 8/29/22
What Is “Quiet Quitting”? Is It Actually Just Setting Healthy Boundaries?
NPR - 8/19/22
“All Communication Is Lossy” - Tips For Communicating Better
A Working Library - 8/18/22
“The Increasing Importance Of A Best Friend At Work.”
Gallup - 8/17/22
“Three R’s For First-Year Teachers”
Edutopia - 8/16/22

“Good teaching is about more than lesson plans. Focusing on relationships, reflection, and resilience can help new teachers thrive.”
“For New Teachers, 6 Principles To Remember This Year”
Edutopia - 8/12/22
What Is The Impact Of A 4-Day Week?
K12 Dive - 8/3/22
More Schools Are Considering 4-Day Weeks, Despite Drawbacks
KQED - 8/2/22
Stop Emailing: Pick Up The Phone Or Visit Your Colleague
Fast Company - 7/11/22

“A survey by the communication platform Loom of more than 3,000 office workers found that 91% have had digital messages misunderstood or misinterpreted at work, and for 20%, the misinterpretation has caused them to get reprimanded, demoted, or even fired… In contrast, face-to-face conversations or video calls allow for more layers of meaning to be conveyed between and among parties. “Aspects of a message such as emotion, tone, sense of urgency, or sarcasm can be more easily conveyed in these communication-rich channels,” says Dalton.”
“Set These Boundaries… To Protect From Burnout”
Fast Company - 7/6/22
Five Approaches To Recovering From Stress
Harvard Business Review - 7/5/22
“Characteristics Of An Unhealthy Culture” (In A Global Context)
How to Save The World - 7/2/22
“Staying With The Same Teacher The Following Year Benefits Students”
KQED - 6/29/22
Looping: “Staying With The Same Teacher The Following Year Benefits Students”
KQED - 6/29/22

““It’s not a magic bullet, but it does seem to have a positive effect,” Wedenoja said. “I think it also says something larger about the fact that relationships between teachers and students are important.””
“World Unhappier, More Stressed Out Than Ever”
Gallup - 6/28/22
“Monitoring Employees Makes Them More Likely To Break Rules”
Harvard Business Review - 6/27/22
On Connectivity And Decentralization
John Hagel - 6/27/22
K-12 Workers Have Highest Burnout Rate Of All Sectors Surveyed. Nice.
Gallup - 6/13/22
Adam Grant On The Importance Of “Weak Tie” Relationships
Inc. - 6/11/22
Report On Ventilation Strategies Used By Schools During COVID
CDC - 6/10/22
Has The Great Resignation Hit Academia?
Nature - 5/31/22
How Can Workplace Practices Address Mental Health And Wellness Needs?
McKinsey - 5/27/22
Dress Codes Are Back (In Restaurants)
New York Times - 5/17/22
8 Elements To Help Teachers Feel That They Matter
ASCD - 5/9/22
8+ Ideas To Manage Your Workload
Pernille Ripp - 2/28/22
A History Of The Seven-Day Week
New Yorker - 11/15/21
How PLC’s Can Promote A Culture Of Efficacy
ASCD - 11/1/21
Employees Want Autonomy (Via Remote Work)
Harvard Business Review - 10/29/21
“4 Email Tips For School Leaders”
ASCD - 10/6/21
Restorative Justice: Some Early Reflections On Its Efficacy
ASCD - 10/1/21

“In practice, restorative practices typically consist of both proactive elements (defining shared values, building character, and developing a sense of community) and reactive elements (counseling students individually for minor infractions and providing them with group counseling or community circles for more serious infractions).”
How To Sustain Your Restorative Justice Program
ASCD - 10/1/21
Ten Elements Of Strong Culture
MIT Sloan Management Review - 9/16/21
More On How To Effectively Collaborate (And When Not To Collaborate)
MIT Sloan Management Review - 9/14/21
Productivity Is For Machines, Not For People
New Yorker - 9/13/21

“We should strive to be good at our jobs—to work deeply, to be reliable, to lead with vision. But, if our employers need more output for each unit of input they employ, we should be more comfortable in replying that, although we understand their predicament, solving it is not really our problem.”
New Faculty Orientation: How To Make Onboarding Meaningful
Gallup - 9/12/21
“Collaboration Overload Is Sinking Productivity”
Harvard Business Review - 9/7/21

“Our Connected Commons research over the past decade on collaborative overload shows that more efficient collaborators — those who have the greatest impact in networks and take the least amount of time from people — are distinguished in part by how they put structure into their work to reduce the insidious cost of being “always on.””
Productivity: On Measuring Outcomes Instead Of Outputs
Fast Company - 9/4/21
How Schedules Can Help Relieve Anxiety
Fast Company - 9/2/21
One School's Approach To Supporting Mental Health At School
KQED - 8/30/21
In Praise Of The Whiteboard As Collaborative Classroom Tool
History Tech - 8/26/21
“7 Ways To Get Outside More Often”
Edutopia - 7/8/21
“Meetings. Why?”
New York Times - 6/24/21
Time Management Won’t Save You. Here’s How To Do Less.
Harvard Business Review - 6/23/21
Heat In The Classroom: Achievement Decreases As Temperature Increases
Taylor & Francis - 6/17/21
Work Less. Your Life May Depend On It
New York Times - 5/29/21
Five Habits to Break When Working From Home
CASE - 5/20/21
Some Schools Are Keeping Their (Much) Later Start Times
Portland Press Herald - 5/20/21
Effective Remote Work Requires The Right Systems And Tools
Cal Newport - 5/13/21
On When And How To Say No At Work
Harvard Business Review - 5/10/21
Some People Prefer The Privacy Of Wearing A Mask
Guardian - 5/10/21
Four Day School Weeks Lead to Lead To Learning Reductions
The 74 Million - 5/4/21
Breaks Help Your Brain (In Case You Didn’t Already Know)
Microsoft - 5/1/21
4 Ways To Beat Burnout
New York Times - 4/30/21
Google Reimagines The Post Pandemic Workplace
New York Times - 4/30/21
“Later School Start Times Gave Small Boost To Grades… Big Boost To Sleep”
Hechinger Report - 4/26/21
Can A Productivity Funnel Help Get Things Done?
Call Newport - 4/20/21
After The “Open Office” Trend
Fast Company - 4/19/21
Air Quality, Ventilation, And Temperature Affect Learning
Chalkbeat - 4/14/21
10 Questions To Ask To Understand An Organization’s Culture
Fast Company - 4/8/21
How Can We Foster Well Being On Campus? Interview with Suniya Luthar
REAL Discussion - 4/5/21

“One of the surprises for people is that when you think about fostering resilience, many educators think that means a focus on more positive things in relationships at school. The data say, though, that we need to focus first on minimizing unkindness in the community, for students as well as adults at school.”
Harvard Announces 2021 Commencement Will Be Virtual
Harvard - 2/26/21
How To Spend Less Time On Email
Fast Company - 2/25/21
Required Hair Color? Part Of Dress Code?
New York Times - 2/19/21

“Japan isn’t the only country in the region, however, to police hair color in young women. Last year, two women’s soccer teams at Chinese universities were barred from participating in a match because players had dyed hair, which was against the rules. When one player was judged not to have “black enough” hair, she was ordered to leave the game, forcing her team to forfeit the match."
Deconstructing Internal Collaboration And Communication Methods
MIT Sloan Management Review - 1/27/21
7 Workplace Lessons From 2020 (Feedback, Feedback, Feedback)
Gallup - 12/11/20
Support Teacher Self-Care By Avoiding Cognitive Distortions
ASCD - 12/1/20
“Productivity Advice: Do The Work”
Zero Credibility - 11/23/20
“Masks Work. Really. We’ll Show You How.” (COVID)
New York Times - 10/30/20
Excellent Visual Demonstration Of How COVID Spreads Indoors
El Pais - 10/28/20
Tired Of Zoom? Have Your Meetings In Video Games, Like These Companies
New York Times - 7/31/20
Reopening Schools By: Moving Classes Outside
Fast Company - 7/25/20
One School's Approach To Revising A Dress Code — And Accountability
NAIS - 7/1/20
Jeff Bezos’ Letter To All Employees About Amazon
CNBC - 6/17/20
Harvard Makes Juneteenth A University Holiday
Harvard - 6/17/20
Major Companies Are Making Juneteenth A Holiday
Business Insider - 6/15/20
6 Approaches To Starting School With Social Distancing
EdWeek - 6/10/20
Reflections On How A Schedule Can Change The Student Experience
EdSurge - 6/2/20
COVID-19 Helps Argue That Teenagers Should Start School Later
New York Times - 5/27/20
“How To Foster A Positive School Climate In A Virtual World”
EdSurge - 5/21/20
“The Suddenly Remote Playbook” - A Handbook For Remote Organizations
Toptal - 4/26/20

“A Playbook for Sustaining an Enterprise-grade Remote Work Environment – From the World’s Largest Fully Remote Company… For over a decade, Toptal has thrived as a fully distributed global company, with over 4,000 individuals working in a fully remote environment, in over 100 countries. We have no office.”
“9 Ways Schools Will Look Different When (And If) They Reopen”
NPR - 4/24/20
Key Trends From A Survey Of School Schedules For Learning Online
Global Online Academy - 4/10/20
How To Convert Your Home Into A Home School
New York Times - 3/31/20
How To Convert Your Home Into A Home School, Comic-Style
NPR - 3/27/20
COVID-19: Tips For Preventing Burnout When Teaching Online
EdWeek - 3/17/20
COVID-19: Working At Home Doesn’t Have To Be Lonely
New York Times - 3/16/20
COVID-19: “11 Tips For Working From Home, For The Uninitiated”
Vogue - 3/10/20
Tips For When Office Teams Have To Work Remotely
Harvard Business Review - 3/5/20
“How To Mend A Work Relationship”
Harvard Business Review - 2/14/20
On Why You Should Have Plants In Your Office And Home
Mic - 2/11/20
“The Seven Spaces Of Learning”
Medium - 2/5/20

“Digital land knows no boundaries of space, time or geography. The effect on learning has been profound this past decade, though still not consistently so on learning in schools. When we apply the principles of digital development to physical learning spaces, we can imagine a totally different means of designing and constructing new schools, where the physical space takes on a role as vital as the technology itself in pushing on teaching and learning practice in schools by leaps and bounds.”
“Zappos Has Quietly Backed Away From Holacracy”
Quartz - 1/29/20
A High School With Learning From 3pm to 8pm In Lansing, Michigan
KQED - 1/28/20

"Halstead coordinates an experimental program called Eastern Flex Academy, where a handful of students attend school from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. They start off with English and math classes, break for dinner and then finish their remaining courses online.”
From Open Offices To “Deep-Work Chambers”
Wall Street Journal - 1/9/20
Treadmill Desks, Personal Workplace Analytics: Stephen Wolfram Reports
Fast Company - 1/9/20
Can Installing Air Filters Significantly Improve Student Performance?
Vox - 1/8/20

“The impact of the air filters is strikingly large given what a simple change we’re talking about. The school district didn’t reengineer the school buildings or make dramatic education reforms; they just installed $700 commercially available filters that you could plug into any room in the country. But it’s consistent with a growing literature on the cognitive impact of air pollution, which finds that everyone from chess players to baseball umpires to workers in a pear-packing factory suffer deteriorations in performance when the air is more polluted.”
Proximity To Plants Correlates With Longer Life
Fast Company - 11/25/19
Successful Work = Time + Space + Materials
Austin Kleon - 10/25/19

“My question is whether increasing the quality or amount of a variable in the equation can make up for a lack of one the others.”
“Universal Free Lunch Is Linked To Better Test Scores”
Chalkbeat - 10/15/19
On The Need For Longer Lunches
EdWeek - 10/14/19

“Sixty-five percent of the students in the study had less than 20 minutes to eat their lunch and those students consumed significantly less of their entrees, vegetables, and milk compared to students who had at least 25 minutes to eat. They ate 13 percent less of their entrees, 12 percent less of their vegetables, and drank 10 percent less of their milk, Cohen found. Students were also much less likely to select fruit for their meal.”
Having A Great Friend At Work Boosts Engagement, Retention, And More
Inc. - 10/8/19
Deep Look At Collaboration And Isolation Routines
MIT Sloan Management Review - 9/10/19
“What Does Business Casual Even Mean In 2019?”
Fast Company - 9/3/19
On The Value Of Checklists
Quartz - 8/12/19
An Excellent List Of Resources For Rethinking Time In Your School
Global Online Academy - 8/6/19
3 Tips for Working Smart Instead Of Working Hard
US News & World Report - 8/5/19
Maybe We’re Not All Actually Busier Than We Used To Be
Literary Review - 8/1/19

“The authors find little proof of increasing busyness among the population. Yes, as expected, people were spending far more time on digital devices in 2015 than they were in 2000. But the data provides little evidence that people now spend more time multitasking or that they’re switching more often from one activity to another, which might make our time seem fragmented and frantic. The perception that we’re all super busy might have grown, the authors say, because of the way that certain subgroups of the population who have seen an increase in their workloads – those who are highly educated, in higher-status jobs and in dual-career households with small children – are more likely to have an influential voice in society and the media and so might have helped to create an impression that everyone is now busier.”
“To Be Happier At Work, Invest More In Your Relationships”
Harvard Business Review - 7/30/19
Everything You Wanted To Know About: Whiteboards
Quartz - 7/17/19
Unlocking Time: A Collection Of Schedule Models And Research
Unlocking Time - 7/13/19
For Best Results: Your Workplace Shouldn’t Be Too Comfortable
Fast Company - 7/10/19
Exploring Flexible Classroom Furniture And Layout
AP News - 7/9/19
On How To Navigate A Transition Among Leadership
Inside Higher Ed - 7/5/19
Pay-For-Performance Linked To Depression
Stanford Social Innovation Review - 7/1/19
A Deep Dive Into The Role Of HR In Prevented Sexual Harassment
Atlantic - 7/1/19
Can Classroom Design Promote Creativity And Collaboration?
Hechinger Report - 6/22/19
Why Is Sexual Harassment Training So Ineffective?
Quartz - 6/19/19
Dress Code: Writer Tries Formal Wear For A Month. She Reflects On The Blazer.
Fast Company - 6/18/19

“In the end, this experiment made me think a lot about what formal wear signals to others. While we might choose to dress up to show our credibility or to give ourselves a confidence boost, what might we lose in connecting with others—especially if they’re dressed more casually? Because of this, I don’t think I’ll switch to dressing up all the time. But I might just pull out a blazer the next time I really want to focus.”
“10 Org Chart Styles We Admire”
Buffer - 5/13/19
Daniel Pink: 4 Recommendations For Using Time More Wisely In Schools
EdWeek - 5/13/19
Noise Around Classrooms Impacts Learning
Education Dive - 4/25/19
Buildings Impact The Learning That Happens Inside Them
EdWeek - 4/17/19
Reflections On Holding Walking Meetings
Medium - 3/18/19
“Not Just Fridays: More Companies Embrace Casual Dress Codes”
NPR - 3/9/19

“This week, Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs announced it's relaxing its dress code. In an attempt to shift toward a workplace that has "a more casual environment," the company said its new policy would allow for more "flexible" attire, according to an internal note issued Tuesday.”
Teacher: “The Absurd Structure Of High School” Schedules
Medium - 2/26/19

"The system’s scheduling fails on every possible level. If the goal is productivity, the fractured nature of the tasks undermines efficient product. So much time is spent in transition that very little is accomplished before there is a demand to move on. If the goal is maximum content conveyed, then the system works marginally well, in that students are pretty much bombarded with detail throughout their school day. However, that breadth of content comes at the cost of depth of understanding. The fractured nature of the work, the short amount of time provided, and the speed of change all undermine learning beyond the superficial. It’s shocking, really, that students learn as much as they do.”
One School's Journey To And Through A Schedule Change
EdSurge - 2/20/19

“Two of the most intriguing pieces of data collected during student surveys related to class period length and homework. When we asked students about an optimal length of class, they came back with 60 to 65 minutes. When students were asked about a realistic amount of homework time that should be expected of them, we expected to receive most answers declaring “none,” but instead, students saw the value of about 90-minutes of quality homework.”
Dress Codes: A Wide Ranging Exploration
Cult of Pedagogy - 2/17/19
Dress Code: What Happens When A US Senator Wears Knee Boots?
AZ Central - 1/28/19
A Deep Dive Into How Daily Work Schedules Influence Productivity
New York Times - 12/24/18

“Managers who give it a try often find that employees’ morale, engagement and productivity all go up, because they are working at a time that works best for them, and able to get the most work done.”
Sit Less, Move More: US Govt (Dept of HHS) Offers Clear Advice
NPR - 11/12/18
On Work And Rest: How Breaks Can Mean More Productivity
Quartz - 11/8/18
Athleisure: The Remarkable Role Of Schools In Changing Dress Code Norms
Atlantic - 10/28/18

“The first sport coats were adopted by 19th-century Europeans and Britons who enjoyed hunting or horseback riding but found such activities difficult in a typical suit jacket. Young American students borrowed the style with a few tweaks, sometimes pairing sport coats with non-matching pants to play outdoor sports like golf.”
Some Thoughts On Designing Your Environment For Greater Productivity
Medium - 10/8/18
School Start Time And Sleep: Another Call For 8:30 Starts, Or Later
New York Times - 9/20/18
A Reminder That Pixar Got The Office Plan Right (Closed, Connected)
Inc. - 8/29/18
More On 4-Day Weeks: Schools Save Money, And Pedagogy Changes
PBS - 8/28/18

“It’s great for teachers. They love it. And why wouldn’t they? But I see a lot of grandparents and relatives seemingly a little overwhelmed and burdened.”
A Brief Look At The Benefits And Costs Of Block Scheduling
Larry Cuban - 8/26/18
No Walking While On The Phone At GM — Even For The CEO
Fast Company - 8/23/18

“At General Motors, employees are not allowed to walk around on their phones. That’s pretty standard behavior for warehouses and manufacturing facilities, but this rule extends to the office. That means no looking at a phone on the way to a meeting. No taking calls while en route to the bathroom. No checking email while you’re going to the kitchen to get a coffee.”
Time Restricted Eating May Be Critical For Health
New York Times - 7/24/18
Companies Test Out Four-Day Work Weeks, Make Them Permanent
New York Times - 7/19/18
"Open Offices Make You Less Open”
Cal Newport - 7/6/18
8 Concrete Ways To Address Burnout
ASCD - 6/28/18
GM Revises Dress Code From Ten Pages To Two Words
Inc. - 6/8/18
“Bursty” Communication Can Help Remote Work
Behavioral Scientist - 5/29/18

“What did lead to better outcomes was having a “bursty” communication style, where ideas were communicated and responded to quickly. By contrast, in environments where communication and feedback were delayed or dispersed across multiple threads, teams suffered, and the quality of their work suffered.”
How Much Collaboration Is Best? (Via Working Remotely)
Behavioral Scientist - 5/29/18

“People often think that constant communication is most effective, but actually, we find that bursts of rapid communication, followed by longer periods of silence, are telltale signs of successful teams.”
8 Ways To Tweak The One-Teacher, One-Classroom Model
EdSurge - 5/24/18
How To Keep A Schedule When Working From Home
New York Times - 5/17/18
On The Value Of Scheduling Down Time
Quartz - 5/16/18
A Collection Of Dress Code Disasters By Schools
New York Times - 4/17/18

“It’s not clear whether the rise we’re seeing in advocacy around the issue of dress code is because schools are imposing them in more discriminatory ways now than they were before, or whether more students are feeling empowered to speak up and complain about discriminatory dress codes.”
4 Day School Week. 18,000 Student Denver District Drops Mondays.
Inc. - 4/16/18
Why And How Not To Send Emails After Hours
Chronicle of Higher Education - 4/12/18
The Four Groups That Create Your Employee Culture
Gallup - 4/11/18
Four Day School Weeks. They’re Growing, Usually For Budget Reasons
Newsweek - 3/25/18

"Even the number of districts which have schools on a four-day week is hard to say - recently Heyward was able to identify 470 districts for certain but says she conservatively estimates that there are around 500.”
No Email After Hours: Bills For “Right To Disconnect” Are Growing
Fast Company - 3/23/18
PriceWaterhouseCoopers Millennials Rebel And Change Work Culture
Quartz - 3/20/18
Six Different Morning Routines (Before Work?)
Inc. - 3/6/18
A Terrific Poem And Reflection On Work-Life Balance
Austin Kleon - 1/23/18
6 Ways To Be More Productive
The Economist - 1/5/18
3 Guidelines For Improving Productivity
Medium - 1/4/18

"1. Do What Is Important, Not What Is Urgent… 2. Do What You Need To Do, Before You Do What You Want To Do… 3. Remove All Distractions.”
The Sounds Of Nature Make Us Happier, More Relaxed
Motherboard - 12/6/17
When We Are Productive: By Hour, Day, Month, And Season
Priceonomics - 12/5/17
From “Move Fast and Break Things” To “Move Slow And Build Things”
Use Journal - 11/5/17
Is Work-Life Integration Actually Better Than Work-Life Separation?
Quartz - 11/2/17

"Several professors observed that when employees changed behavior between work and life, they performed worse at their jobs. When their behavior was the same between both work and life, they maintained higher levels of job performance.”
To Get Things Done, Have An Accountability Partner
New York Times - 10/23/17

"Find someone you love and trust, and share the thing with them. Then, commit to getting something tangible done in the next week. At the end of the week, reconnect and have that person ask you if you did your thing. If you did, you get a high-five. But if you didn’t…?”
Tips For Working From Home
New York Times - 9/19/17
Does Meritocracy Even Exist? Why Even Optimists Think Not. [audio]
Bloomberg - 9/13/17
A Reflection On Uniforms As Dress Codes. Do They Do Anything?
New Yorker - 9/6/17
Surgeon General: Is Loneliness At Work A Health Epidemic?
Harvard Business Review - 9/1/17

“Loneliness shortens lifespans in a way similar to smoking 15 cigarettes a day.”
Salaries Lead To Generally More Satisfied Staff Than Hourly Wages
Gallup - 8/23/17
5 Tips For An Afternoon Routine
Lifehacker - 8/14/17
An Argument For A Four-Hour Work Day
Guardian - 8/11/17
NYT Readers Sound Off On Recent Dress Code Articles
New York Times - 7/24/17
“How To Dress Down Like A Power Player”
New York Times - 7/19/17
And Now The LPGA Is Changing Its Dress Code
New York Times - 7/17/17
Working From Home Is The Best!
Inc. - 7/14/17
Working From Home Falling Out Of Vogue
Bloomberg - 7/10/17
An Overview Of Stresses On The Triple Threat Model
Enrollment Mgmt Assoc - 6/28/17
A Look At Some Decisions Behind Apple’s New Headquarters
Harvard Business Review - 6/26/17

“[Steve Jobs] probably knew the Churchillian adage that we shape our buildings, and then they shape us. In fact, his raw instinct for manipulating space to influence behavior was well known since the days of designing the Pixar campus in 1998.”
3 Rules For An Effective Open Office Plan
Gallup - 6/22/17
4 Ways For Educators To Start Taking Care Of Ourselves
Cult of Pedagogy - 6/19/17
Lessons From Google (And Everywhere): Rest Is Important
Wired - 6/11/17
A Long Meditation On The Casualification Of Office Dress
First Things - 6/1/17

"At the end of the twentieth century, dress underwent another great change; call it the “Tailored Renunciation” or the “Casual Revolution.” Underlying it is not the triumph of one class but rather the loss among all classes of a sense of occasion. By “occasion” I mean an event out of the ordinary, a function other than our daily lives, an experience for which we take special care and preparation, at which we act and speak and comport ourselves differently—events which could be called ritualistic in matters of propriety and appearance… It can now be said that this sort of an outward sign or almost any of the older outward signs of ritual are considered pure snobbery.”
Freelancers: Advice For Working Alone
Jocelyn K. Glei - 5/31/17
Freelancers: Will A Digital Detox Make You More Productive?
Fast Company - 5/17/17
7 Rules Of The Workplace That College Graduates Need To Know
Fast Company - 5/12/17
Start Times And Rising Test Scores: More Sleep Or More Sun?
Chalk beat - 5/11/17
An Argument For Why We Need Breaks, Rests, Reflection
Quartz - 4/30/17
A Surprising Take On Why Collaboration Isn’t Always Good
Inc. - 4/13/17

"The No. 1 reason high performers leave organizations in which they are otherwise happy is because of the tolerance of mediocrity."
Some People Check Email Once or Twice… A Week
Cal Newport - 4/13/17
The Cure For Burnout? Nature.
New York Magazine - 4/10/17
Work Less, Get More Done: Darwin, Dickens, And Others
Nautilus - 3/30/17
A Conference Dedicated To School Start Times
District Administration - 3/28/17
Dress Code: United Airlines Bars Teens Wearing Leggings
New York Times - 3/27/17
People Are Using “Full Screen” Viewing Mode To Improve Focus
Fast Company - 3/9/17
A Balance Board For Standing Desks
Design Milk - 3/3/17
What Benefits Do Employees Find Most Desirable?
Harvard Business Review - 2/15/17
Logistical (Not Sleep) Challenges Of Later School Start Times
US News & World Report - 2/13/17
Can A Messy Office/Desk/Inbox Be A Key To Happiness?
Quartz - 1/31/17
"How To Tell Your Boss You Have Too Much Work”
Harvard Business Review - 1/13/17
The Return Of Open Space Architecture From The 60’s
Larry Cuban - 1/10/17
The Physiological Benefits Of A Workplace Filled With Trust
Harvard Business Review - 1/1/17
On The Rapid Arrival And Decline Of Holacracy
Quartz - 12/21/16
How Being Busy Became A (Bad) Status Symbol
Washington Post - 12/20/16
Suggestions For Building A Routine
Inc. - 12/13/16
Rich, Rich Data On How Americans Feel About Information Overload
Pew Internet - 12/7/16
Several Sources Of Work-Life Imbalance. Several Solutions.
Pacific Standard - 12/6/16
Make Your Day Proactive, Not Reactive
Cal Newport - 11/30/16
"When Finnish Teachers Work In American Schools”
Atlantic - 11/28/16
“15 Resources To Overcome Stress In The Classroom”
ASCD - 11/2/16
“Millennials Want Jobs That Promote Their Well-Being”
Gallup - 11/1/16
Are Your Colleagues Your Number One Distraction?
NPR - 10/26/16
Dress Code: Some Research On How Attire Affects Performance
New York Magazine - 10/25/16
Data On The Effect Of Open-Floor Plan Interruptions
Quartz - 10/12/16
Four Ways To Create A Healthy Culture For Teachers
SmartBrief - 9/14/16
Courting Young Teachers: Purpose, Growth, Balance
Gallup - 9/9/16
What Gen Z And Millennials Look For In A Workplace
Fast Company - 9/7/16
On The Balance Of Minimalist Simplicity And Combinatorial Creativity
New Republic - 9/6/16
8 Great Perspectives On What Classrooms Of The Future Will Look Like
Atlantic - 9/2/16
Suggestions For Taking Restful Breaks
99u - 9/1/16
Why Some People Choose To Start Their Days At 4am
Inc. - 8/25/16
"Why The Office Dress Code Is Slowly Dying”
Inc. - 8/15/16
Education Is A Top-Five Industry For Freelance Work?
Education Dive - 8/4/16
Meetings And Distractions: The Two Killers Of Our Ability To Focus
Harvard Business Review - 8/3/16
Four Ways An Office Building Can Affect Creativity
Fast Company - 7/19/16
Standing Desks: Happier, (A Little) Healthier, But Not More Productive
Fast Company - 7/15/16
Take More Vacation, Get More Raises
Harvard Business Review - 7/13/16
Time Off And Hobbies Are Good For Productivity And Business
Pacific Standard - 7/10/16
A Reflection On Time, Boredom, And Devices (…And Pace?)
Business Insider - 7/4/16
Defining Burnout - And How To Recover From It
Harvard Business Review - 6/20/16
A Few Studies About How Dress Affects Behavior
Inc. - 6/14/16
A Collection Of Tips For Productivity And Teamwork
WeForum - 6/10/16
6 Ways To Remove Distractions And Increase Focus
Fast Company - 6/6/16
Some Metrics For Assessing The Health Of A School
Private School Review - 5/26/16
Should Schools Move To A Year-Round Calendar?
District Administration - 5/14/16
What Millennials Want From Work (Reprise)
Gallup - 5/11/16
14 Schools Making Bold Decisions
Tech Insider - 5/10/16
What People Really Want In Their Jobs Is Autonomy
New York Magazine - 3/31/16
Sleep in: New York Times Aggregates Reasons To Start School Later
New York Times - 3/28/16
2 Factors of School Climate That Affect Grades and Teacher Retention
Chalkbeat - 3/24/16
3 Levels Of Organizational Culture, And How To Build It
Harvard Business Review - 3/18/16
One Approach To Organizing Your Time/Work/To-Do List
Fast Company - 3/16/16
A Graph Of Work On 2 Axes: Urgency And Importance
Twitter - 3/16/16
No Time For What You Want To Do? Be Brave: Leave Your Job.
Daily Nous - 3/15/16
Reimagining Meetings: A Dive Into New Formats
New York Times - 2/28/16
“A Manifesto For Small Teams Doing Important Work”
Seth Godin - 2/18/16
A Deconstruction Of Why Email Is Bad, And What To Do About It
Harvard Business Review - 2/18/16
On Sabbaticals And Higher Life-Satisfaction
Quartz - 2/18/16
How Do Later School Start Times Actually Affect Kids?
THE Journal - 2/5/16
Most Highly Rated Employee Benefits And Perks
Fast Company - 2/3/16
Some Organizations Create Workplace Culture Manifestos
Stanford Social Innovation Review - 1/29/16
Increasing Maternity Leave Increases Retention
Quartz - 1/28/16
The Software That Connects Us Seeks To Establish Boundaries
Fast Company - 1/26/16
Too Much Collaboration = No Time For Personal Productivity
Economist - 1/23/16
Company Campuses And The Corporate Town
Aeon - 1/22/16
Two Tips For Effective Meetings
Inc. - 1/8/16
How Dress Codes Affect Men And Women (via Silicon Valley)
Quartz - 1/6/16
Focus: “How To Say No To Things You Want To Do”
Harvard Business Review - 1/4/16
Four Stories That Help Shape Your Organization’s Culture
New York Times - 12/19/15
Eating Together Builds Team Relationships
Harvard Business Review - 12/1/15
Why A Positive Work Culture Makes For Greater Productivity
Harvard Business Review - 12/1/15
4 Day School Week: Good For Teacher Growth, A Pinch On Parents
NPR - 11/27/15
Effects Of Culture On Workplace Motivation
Harvard Business Review - 11/25/15
On The Stress Of Email
New York Magazine - 11/16/15
How Are Those 6 Hour Work Days Going In Sweden?
BBC - 11/2/15
Would We Work Better With A Six Hour Workday?
Fast Company - 9/29/15
‘Promotions’ Aren’t Always Good For You, Or: Do What You Love
New York Times - 9/5/15
Longer Hours = Lower Productivity
Harvard Business Review - 8/19/15
Consider Getting Rid Of The Desk In Your Classroom
Edutopia - 8/4/15
Teacher Desk: Benign Workplace, Or Symbol Of Hierarchy?
Medium - 8/3/15
This Company Makes Everyone’s Salary Public. What’s The Result?
Fast Company - 7/31/15
9 Tips For Happier Vacations
Fast Company - 7/24/15
Standing Desks For Kids? Well, It Reduces… Sitting
Washington Post - 7/21/15
Orrrr Maybe Happiness At Work Isn’t Good For Us?
Harvard Business Review - 7/21/15
The Mere Presence Of Your Phone Diminishes Productivity
Harvard Business Review - 7/10/15
How To Get Through That Mid-Afternoon Energy Slump
Harvard Business Review - 7/1/15
7 Habits For Achieving Work-Life Balance
Fast Company - 6/29/15
The Best Times Of Day To Do Different Kinds Of Work
Fast Company - 6/23/15
How Old You Feel Might Influence How Productive You Are
Fast Company - 6/22/15
Short Questionnaire To Determine Your Job Satisfaction
Harvard Business Review - 6/17/15
Two Questions To Ask If You Are Fulfilled… Every Day
Gallup - 6/12/15
Take A Vacation: Get A Raise And Promotion
Harvard Business Review - 6/12/15
4 Productivity Styles, And Tools For Each
99u - 6/4/15
People Who Are Competent Get Assigned More Work
Atlantic - 5/22/15
The New Rules Of The Old Workplace
Fast Company - 5/18/15
Slack: A Replacement for Email and Meetings?
Medium - 5/8/15
Dress Codes: Does Our Clothing Change How We Think And Feel?
Atlantic - 4/30/15
Do We Actually Like To Check Email During Off Hours?
Atlantic - 4/26/15
What Research Says About Standing Desks
Fast Company - 4/22/15
This High School Was Designed To Be Like Google Offices
Fast Company - 4/6/15
The Science of Classroom Decoration and Design
Bright - 3/31/15
High Ceilings Associated With Free, Creative Thinking
Fast Company - 3/5/15
Company Eliminates Fridays and Email - And Thrives
Cal Newport - 2/16/15
On the Need For More Time For Teachers
Washington Post - 12/22/14
More Than The Standing Desk: The Standing (And Leaning) Office
Fast Company - 12/15/14
Not Everything On That To-Do List Needs To Be Done
99u - 12/10/14
Excerpts From The Book About How Great It Is To Tidy Up
Farnam Street - 12/9/14
The First Two Hours of the Day Are Your Most Productive
99u - 12/8/14
How to build Flexible Spaces For Student Work
KQED - 11/26/14
8 Ways to Say No
Farnam Street - 11/23/14
Sitting All Day Also Correlates With Poor Mental Health
New York Magazine - 11/21/14
A Distillation of What Makes For A Productive Day
Fast Company - 11/19/14
Three Keys To A Happy Workplace
Harvard Business Review - 11/14/14
The Morning Holds Your Two Most Productive Hours
New York Magazine - 11/10/14
Open Office Plan Or Not?
New York Times - 11/9/14
Meditation on “The Disease of Being Busy”
On Being - 11/6/14
8 Tips for Time Management
Betabeat - 11/5/14
An Essay on Burnout, and Learning to Say No
Elle - 11/5/14
Several Classroom Layout Details that Affect Learning
New York Magazine - 11/4/14
Why Everyone Needs a Workspace With Privacy
Harvard Business Review - 10/22/14
Standing Desks Help Both Adults and Kids
KQED - 10/21/14
Why Tone Is Tough Over Email... And How to Fix It
Fast Company - 10/9/14

“Misinterpretation tends to comes in two forms: neutral or negative. So we dull positive notes (largely because the lack of emotional cues makes us less engaged with the message), and we assume the worst in questionable ones... Face-to-face interaction took more reported effort... but also resulted in more positive ratings of the partner's character, and an overall more enjoyable experience...”
How One Organization Embraced an Open Office Plan
Harvard Business Review - 10/3/14
Paternity Leave: An International Look At Its Economic Benefits
Quartz - 9/24/14
3 Questions to Help You Say No To More Work
Farnam Street - 9/8/14
An Engineer Flips the Office: No Boss, Meetings, Shorter Week
Quartz - 9/6/14
Organize The Way Great Chefs Do: Mise-en-place
NPR - 8/11/14
A Thorough Exploration of Shortened Work Weeks
New Yorker - 8/5/14
Three Ways to Reduce Multitasking
99u - 7/21/14
How Workspaces Can Increase Productivity, Individual and Collective
Fast Company - 7/9/14
What if Everyone Knew Everyone Else’s Salary?
NPR - 7/2/14
Exercise Doesn’t Mitigate Risks from Sitting; but Breaks Do
Quartz - 6/26/14
Standing Meetings Are More Productive and Creative
Washington Post - 6/20/14
Voices Respond to the Vergara Ruling on Teacher Tenure
Al Jazeera America - 6/13/14
Swedes Test Out a Six Hour Work Day. Will They Ever Go Back?
Yahoo Finance - 5/29/14
What’s Worse Than Workplace Harassment? Neglect.
Pacific-Standard - 5/20/14
Does Less Work = More Productivity?
Brilliant Blog - 5/19/14
Visualizing Trendy Office Talk. Who Says What.
Atlantic - 5/16/14
11 Tips For Avoiding Burnout
99u - 4/26/14
How Being Busy Is Different From Being Productive
Fast Company - 4/21/14
How to Build Your Personalized Productivity Schedule
Quartz - 4/17/14
Rapture? French Labor Union Prohibits Checking Email at Night
NPR - 4/10/14

“Under the deal, some [200,000] workers will be required to switch off their work phones outside office hours -- 6pm to 9am.”
Looking at Careers, Beginning to End
Fast Company - 3/17/14
Google, Facebook, Twitter: How Offices Bring Innovation
New York Times - 3/4/14
Does Class Size Matter?
Washington Post - 2/24/14
More on How Feeling Busy Diminishes Performance
Fast Company - 2/19/14
Why We Need Checklists
Farnam Street - 2/11/14
To Increase Productivity, Focus on Process, Not Goals
Inc. - 2/5/14
Michael Eisner on When Collaboration Works
Farnam Street - 1/14/14
More Criticism of Open Plan Offices
Fast Company - 1/10/14
Productivity and Leadership Tips from.... Jerry Seinfeld?
Fast Company - 1/7/14
Against the Open Office Plan, Decisively
New Yorker - 1/7/14
Why We Shouldn’t Feel Guilty About Giving Ourselves Breaks
Fast Company - 1/6/14
6 Elements of a Healthy Organizational Culture
New York Times - 1/4/14
Lessons from Ikea’s Approach to Workload and Workforce
New York Times - 12/31/13
Experimental Office Space Designs from 2013
Fast Company - 12/30/13
How to Understand (and Improve?) Your Emotional Intelligence
Fast Company - 12/16/13
Is Work Satisfaction the Tipping Point for Life Happiness?
New York Times - 12/14/13

“After 40 years of research, they attribute happiness to three major sources: genes, events, and values.”
Appreciation or Salary: Which is More Important?
Boston Globe - 11/17/13
What Makes Good Workplace Training? (Read Carefully)
Brilliant Blog - 11/11/13
Another Argument for the Shorter Work Week
Fast Company - 10/31/13
A New Service Identifies Workplace Personalities
Fast Company - 9/23/13
Open up a Free Desk in your Office, and See Who Comes
Fast Company - 5/6/13
How to Achieve Work Satisfaction
Brain Pickings - 4/23/13
Busier Is Not Better
New York Times - 6/30/12
How One School Managed AP Courses In A Block Schedule
Kappan - 11/1/00

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