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You know what the greatest thing in the world is? Calling people you don’t know. That’s everyone’s favorite thing. I know you got into education so you can cold call parents about their kids.
We all grow up playing school, lining up our pretend students in rows, writing on a chalkboard, and then calling up pretend parents. Some of you out there probably have “I calling parents” tattooed on your forearm....

So, here is a scenario: Student Benchmarks come in for the Fall, you pour through the data, scramble manically through spreadsheets and printouts of last year’s Spring State Assessment, only finding some of the many results. You ask yourself: Does this...

In my wanderings from education, to finance, to password protection, I’ve uncovered a few common pitfalls that I have tried (and occasionally failed) to avoid when dealing with statistics. Here is my list of the top 4 mistakes and at the end, there is...

Herding Cats. That’s what re-launching a company website is like. Just when you think you have one problem taken care of, whoops! There goes Ms. Flutterbucket out the back gate.
The amount of moving parts in a new website is overwhelming. Truly. Building landing pages, organizing the layout, choosing pictures, getting employees to write their own bios (enter herding cats meme) – all of it is enough to drive a person insane....