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Free Matrix Webinar: How to Work with Stuck Teams

 

 🎯 FREE WEBINAR THIS THURSDAY

When teams are stuck, siloed, or talking past each other, they don't need another "trust-building" exercise.

They need a STRUCTURE.

Dr. Kevin Polk and I are teaching the ProSocial Matrix on Crowdcast

You will learn:→ 4 questions that help teams get unstuck → Real examples → How to use this in your work.

Thursday, October 16 Link to register or catch the replay: Prosocial for Teams

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The Simplicity Tool You Can Keep Coming Back To

 

In this short reel, I share the tool that keeps showing up in real classrooms and real conversations—because it actually works. The ACT Matrix isn’t a checklist—it’s a shared point of view. It’s simple, visual, and powerful enough to stick when everything else falls away.

🎯 Whether you’re a teacher, counselor, or administrator, this is one tool that flexes with you—not against you.

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The Simplicity Shift for Education with the ACT Matrix

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What Educators Really Need Right Now (Hint: It's Not More Complexity)

 

Feeling overwhelmed is an everyday reality for educators, school psychologists, and mental health professionals. You are not alone. In this short video from my Simplicity that Sticks series, I discuss the costs of cognitive overload and how simple, sustainable tools, such as the ACT Matrix, can help you achieve recovery and resilience in the face of complexity.

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Why Simplicity Wins in Education (And Everywhere Else)

Uncategorized May 22, 2025

A teacher stands in front of their students in a classroom. She is about to present material she has poured lots of time and effort into. She has her PowerPoint remote in hand, thinking, "Is any of this getting through?"

This scenario plays out in real-time, down the hall, in another building, district, county, or state. The same thought is showing up there, too. Do not adjust your dial or throw up your hands. Educators do not lack dedication, passion, or training. What has happened is that complexity has crept in and taken clarity out of the picture.

The Countdown has begun. Preparations are underway in classrooms for winding things down and closing up shop for the summer. Simultaneously, the final weeks of school are a blur of frenzied efforts to cram, turn in assignments, and exhort the disengaged. Exhausted teachers and squirmy students are plodding to the finish line. One more decree or mandate would send them over the edge.

Here is where we can pause and see if we can give sim...

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