✍️ 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
You Survived Maycember... Now What? 🌈
Dear Brilliant Brainiacs,
We did it.We made it through Maycember. That mythical beast of a month where time bends, chaos reigns, and exhaustion hits a little different.
Now? It’s June.A new month.A deep breath.A doorway to rediscovery.
And I want to invite you into something special.
🍇 The Grip...
Jun 03, 2025
Rabbit Holes, Secret Sauce, and SEEDs: A Spring Update
🎤 Cue the frosted tips and synchronized choreography:“It’s gonna be MAY!”
And here we are - May 1st, a quarter of the way through 2025, and somehow already a quarter of the way through the 21st century.
(I know. I’m processing it, too.)
It’s been far too long since my last update, so I wanted to ...
May 01, 2025