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Sponsorship Packages September 10-11, 2025 Hyatt Regency Downtown Houston, Texas TALAS’s Education Innovation Exchange (EIE) allows executive leaders to influence the development, refinement, and delivery of the products and […]
3-2-1: On the power of relationships, practicing mental toughness, and a little secret of life
3 Ideas From Me
I.
“Start with the best opportunity available to you. If you make the most of what you have in front of you right now, better opportunities will become available as you go along.”
II.
“Relationships are usually the most important thing.
If you want to achieve more, there is some relationship that can unlock better results. If you want to make a meaningful contribution, helping others is a great way to do it. If you simply want to be a little happier, life is often more fun when shared with someone.
Whatever you’re trying to accomplish, relationships are probably the key to getting there. Take this idea seriously and spend a little time thinking about which relationships you need to build or invest in.”
The Luck Ladder: How Strategic Leaders Manufacture Their Own Success
Stop waiting for lightning to strike. Start building your own storm.
Picture this: Two entrepreneurs launch companies in the same month. Same industry, similar budgets, comparable teams. Five years later, one is celebrating a $50 million exit while the other is filing for bankruptcy.
What made the difference?
If you asked most people, they’d chalk it up to luck. The successful founder “caught a break.” The failed one got dealt a “bad hand.” But here’s what separates truly strategic leaders from everyone else—they understand that luck isn’t random. It’s manufactured.
Welcome to the concept that’s revolutionizing how we think about business success: The Luck Ladder.
Phone bans proliferate as digital media’s harm to students grows clearer
Even as school cellphone bans proliferate, a growing body of evidence suggests digital media — and cellphone use specifically — is harming child and teen development.
A meta-analysis of 117 studies published in June found that the relationship between screen time and socioemotional well-being is somewhat of a Catch-22: Increased screen time can lead to emotional and behavioral problems, and children with those problems rely on screens to cope with them.
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Block on Louisiana Ten Commandments Display Law
A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously upheld a lower court’s injunction blocking Louisiana’s law requiring a display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom—a decision that may be consequential now that other states have adopted similar laws.
“If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments,” said a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, in New Orleans. “This is not a permissible state objective under the Establishment Clause,” the provision of the First Amendment that forbids any government establishment of religion.
How Top Principals Are Tackling Teacher Morale and Other Challenges
For most principals, summertime doesn’t always mean a clean break from school. Most find themselves deep in planning for the new school year, shortlisting hires, deciding which training their teachers most need, and catching up with tasks they’ve long put off in the bustle of the school term—like cleaning out their desks.
That’s how Tony Cattani, principal of Lenape High School in Medford County, N.J., spent his first day of summer break. But he has bigger plans, which include sending a postcard to each of his 1,900-plus students over the summer to let them know their educators are thinking of them. It’s all part of an effort to boost their sense of belonging and connection with the school.