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Atomic Habits
What follows are a couple of takeaways that I gathered from James Clear's book Atomic Habits.James Clear is a writer that I’ve been following for years. I learned of Clear by accidentally modeling my personal website off of his. I say accidentally, because I actually...
Project Based Grading
Conforming to a traditional grading system in a project based curriculum is one of the biggest instructional challenges in teaching entrepreneurship authentically. The Challenge In the real world, there are no report cards. The notion of a “C+” doesn’t really...
Customer Conversations
In this short post, I'd like to share a real customer conversation that I held with an acquaintance to model the MVP Experimentation phase of an entrepreneurship curriculum. HappyGramm.com In my first year of teaching high school entrepreneurship, I conceived of a...
Minimum Viable Product Pitch Deck Examples
The slides above are intended to be used for demonstration purposes when putting together an Minimum Viable Product Pitch Deck. Exemplars The slides in the deck in this post come from 6 different student teams' minimum viable product pitch decks. Do not consider the...
Low Poly Portrait
In this post, I share one of my favorite graphic design projects - the Low Poly Portrait. It's a student favorite too. High Level Overview From a high level, a low poly portrait is simply a portrait made of many triangles that share common edges that, when viewed from...
Minimum Viable Product Pitch Deck
The Minimum Viable Product Pitch is an important milestone in every high school entrepreneurship curriculum. For most student teams, the MVP pitch represents the first time that they will share their vision with a scrutinizing audience. As an entrepreneurship...
Minimum Viable Product Tips
What follows are some tips concerning minimum viable product design in high school entrepreneurship. The Minimum Viable Product Continuum All MVPs fall somewhere on the continuum between nearly useless and completely validating. If your students’ MVP only measures...
How I Became the Google Slides Templates Guy
In this post, I I reflect upon my experience in the Ed Tech game, and examine just how I came to be the Google Slides Templates guy (a title I just made up). A Little History From 2011-2014, I was employed as an instructional technology coach in a great little school...
The Adjacent Possible
The idea behind a business is often the single most important factor that contributes to a founder's ability to launch, gain momentum, and grow a business without losing steam and fizzling out. So what's a founder to do when they're having trouble coming up with...
How To Make A GIF
In the video below, I demonstrate how to make a GIF using Adobe Photoshop. TutorialHow To Make A GIF I generally teach this lesson leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday. I find it's a great way to prevent my students from checking out early as many them are delighted...