Inside Brian's Brain

Wonder, Wisdom, & the Algorithm PLUS Winter Curiosity Prompts

January 2026 has been a lot. Wild temperature swings. Snow in places that don’t usually see it. Ice where you least expect it. Storms rolling through one after another. It feels like every forecast comes with a disclaimer and every plan feels a little tentative. Even if you’re not directly in the...

Jan 27, 2026

January 2026 or The Month of Mondays

Hey there. Well, it’s the 23rd Monday of January. At least that is the way that 2026 has felt. Like a month of Mondays. Can I still say Happy New Year without it feeling weird? The thing about “new” years is that they are not really “new”. I mean sure you get a new calendar if that is your thi...

Jan 23, 2026

Inside Brian’s Brain: A Whirlwind, A Wonderland, and What’s Next

Hey Friends! Whew. The past month has felt like living inside a snow globe someone kept shaking… and I’ve loved every second of it. Let's take a moment to look back at all that happened. NAGC PittsburghWhat. A. Week.I shared three jam-packed sessions each full of ideas, rabbit holes, and practica...

Dec 11, 2025

Gifted360 Black Friday Sale + The (FREE) SEEDling Squad PLC!

If you’ve been craving PD that actually energizes you instead of draining your soul, this is your moment. With GIFTED 360: Designing Personalized Learning Experiences and GIFTED 360: Increasing Student Engagement, you’re stepping into two immersive, idea-stuffed, creativity-fueled professional l...

Nov 26, 2025

🧠 INSIDE BRIAN’S BRAIN: The Freakiest of Fridays Edition

Hello Friend, Well, we are at the end of another month! How are you doing? Right now I feel like the harder that I work the further behind I get. This struggle is real. This week I had the joy of keynoting the Illinois Association for Gifted Children Conference in Naperville, IL! It was a bla...

Oct 30, 2025

Juggling & Struggling or Thriving & High-Fiving?

Friends, can you believe we are nearly halfway through September? For some of you, this is only the end of your second (or maybe even first!) week of school. Others of you have been back since July. Teacher calendars are weird. No matter where you are in the journey, if you’re anything like me, ...

Sep 12, 2025

The "August Slipped Away Like a Moment in Time" Edition

Hi, I’m Brian! Here we are. The end of August. Back to school. Back to busy.And (hopefully) back to brilliance. Before we get completely overwhelmed by 🎃 ALL THINGS PUMPKIN SPICED 🎃 let’s take a quick look back at what summer held and peek forward to what’s still to come. ☀️ Summer Wrap...

Aug 29, 2025

🌱 INSIDE BRIAN’S BRAIN: Back-to-School Edition 🌱

The school year is here, and I want to challenge you to start by PLANTING SEEDS OF INTENTION. What you plant today determines what blooms tomorrow. To help, I created a simple 1-page SEED PLANTING GUIDE that you and your learners can use to set a powerful intention for the year ahead. Speaking...

Aug 20, 2025

INSIDE BRIAN'S BRAIN: Nothing recycled. Everything ridiculously awesome.

🚨We are entering peak Brian Brainwave Season! 🚨 In 7 days, I’m unleashing a full-on curiosity storm at Confratute.In 14 days, I’m cannonballing into your screen with SPARK & SPLASH. Everything I’m bringing? Totally new. Totally now. Totally 🔥. I have been doing LOT of staring at my compter scr...

Jul 07, 2025

✍️ Big Signatures, Summer Songs & a Founding Father FAIL 🎆

Happy Fourth (but really… Second?) of July!An Independence Day Edition of Inside Brian’s Brain Did you know John Adams insisted that July 2nd would go down in history as our day of celebration? He was so convinced that he wrote to his wife Abigail saying: “The Second Day of July 1776, will be ...

Jul 04, 2025

☀️ Sun’s Out, Brain’s On: What’s Next Inside Brian’s Brain

Well, it’s officially July 1, 2025, and I have just one question:WHERE DID THE TIME GO?!(Seriously, did we accidentally hit fast-forward on the remote again?) Somehow we’ve reached the third quarter of the year, and while 2025 has already been packed with book launches, unicorns, and nationwide l...

Jul 01, 2025

🚨 3 Weeks to Go: Are You In on the Secret? 🤫

Let me take you back to a Super Sunday morning in Seattle, November 2024, at the NAGC Convention. Something unexpected was cooking. On that day, I joined forces with Stephanie Higgs, Andi McNair, and Justin Mitchell. Together we invited an overflowing room full of hungry eductors into a professio...

Jun 30, 2025

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