Who does this belong to? This is a common question in my house. Trying to find the owner of a shoe, a book, a bag, a spill, a mess, even a task. If I can find the owner, I can determine who is responsible for making whatever it is better. Read more
What do you do when you are not working? The answer is resting. But how do you rest? Are you resting enough? Could you rest better? The answers to these questions and more questions that you probably have never considered are in this book Rest: Why You Get More Done Read more
Helping without Hurting Is helping always helpful? I thought the answer was “yes”. Why wouldn’t it be? But then I had an encounter where I told a student how to do a problem, but then just a few seconds later his hand shot right back up into the air, looking Read more
Mind Your Moments How powerful is a moment? Can you make a moment powerful? Throughout my life I can think of a handful of moments that have led to drastic changes in my life, my relationships, my teaching. I think of these “defining moments” as historical markers where something significant Read more
What is your relationship status with mathematics? A productive way for me to think about how best to teach mathematics is to consider facilitating a relationship between a student and mathematics. What are things that I can do to improve the relationship? And how can I avoid damaging the relationship Read more
More with Less What if you could focus your time and energy on the critical few things that will make the most impact? Listen in as Joel explores learnings from the featured book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. Click here to subscribe via your favorite podcast Read more
Warm up Subscribe iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play The Warm Up to E002: Act as Love has listeners considering the question “What does it look like to _____________ as an act of unconditional love?” as a way to prepare for Episode 2 of the Amidon Planet Podcast which features the book Love Does: Discover Read more
Warm Up Subscribe iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play The Warm Up to E001: When is a Why features the idea of a chronotype from the book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel Pink. Use this link to identify your chronotype. When is a Why Click Read more
The Answer is K(NOW)N Click here to subscribe via your favorite podcast provider. Below is the timeline and the mentioned links from the inaugural episode of The Amidon Planet Podcast: E000, featuring the Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual by Jocko Willink 00:00 – Opening & Purpose01:41 – About Joel02:22 – Read more
100 is a big deal In kindergarten they celebrate the 100th day of school like Christmas. It is a big deal to get to that third digit. Same goes for Dr. Sam Otten (@ottensam) releasing 100 episodes of the Math Ed Podcast. It is a big deal. The Math Ed Read more