The year after earning my doctorate in educational and organizational leadership, I was fired up to share some of what I had learned, especially with school leaders who didn’t have the time or money to complete an executive doctoral program. I also wanted to crystallize some of the thinking I’d been doing about teaching, learning, and leading more generally.

Impressed by the example of books like 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, with concise explications of key concepts, I decided to write a series of blog posts I called “Ed Lead 101”—not a lot catchier, I grant you, than 101 Things I Learned in School Leadership School! Here’s a selection of posts from that series written in 2015-2016.