Welcome!
I am a Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Colorado Denver and the Founding Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the first university center in the U.S. dedicated to school leadership, innovation, deeper learning, and technology. I’ve worked with hundreds of schools, districts, universities, and other organizations. Welcome to Dangerously Irrelevant!
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Where’s Scott?
Most of my work is in these key areas right now. Please get in touch if I can be of support to you!
- October 8 – Sandwich Public Schools, Sandwich, Massachusetts (virtual)
- October 12 – Manassas Park City Schools, Manassas, Virginia
- October 16 – Colorado Innovates Conference, Denver, Colorado
- October 19 – Sandwich Public Schools, Sandwich, Massachusetts (virtual)
- November 2 – Sandwich Public Schools, Sandwich, Massachusetts (virtual)
- November 12 – Nevada Future of Learning Network, Gardnerville, Nevada
- December 7 – Sandwich Public Schools, Sandwich, Massachusetts (virtual)
- January 12 – Teaching and Learning Conference, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
- January 14Â – Sandwich Public Schools, Sandwich, Massachusetts (virtual)
- January 28 – Sandwich Public Schools, Sandwich, Massachusetts (virtual)
- February 22Â – Sandwich Public Schools, Sandwich, Massachusetts (virtual)
- March 4Â – Sandwich Public Schools, Sandwich, Massachusetts (virtual)
- March 17-20 – EARCOS Teachers Conference, Bangkok, Thailand
- April 2 – EdTechTeacher AI in EDU Summit, Waltham, Massachusetts
- April 8 – Sandwich Public Schools, Sandwich, Massachusetts (virtual)
- June 11-13 – InnEdCO Conference, Breckenridge, Colorado
- June 27-30Â – ISTE+ASCD Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
- July 22-24 – NAESP National School Leaders Conference, Denver, Colorado
Recent Posts
Books I read in September 2026
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in September 2026... Horace’s Compromise, Theodore Sizer (education) Captain’s Fury, Jim Butcher (fantasy) The Tapestry of Fate, Shannon Chakraborty (fantasy) The Scarred Woman, Jussi Adler-Olsen (thriller) Greenteeth, Molly O’Neill (fantasy) The Water...
Prepare them for anything: Innovation, disruption, and the small shifts that matter [NAESP]
Liz Garden and I had the pleasure of hosting Eric Sheninger, award-winning principal and author, on the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) podcast. We had a wide-ranging conversation about school innovation, taking calculated risks, and finding ways to make small shifts...
Deeper learning, diffusion of innovation, and push-pull, loose-tight leadership
I had the opportunity earlier this year to talk with Patrick Walsh for the NewTech High podcast. Patrick and I have known each other since I was at the University of Minnesota, and he continues to make great things happen in my former state. In this podcast episode, Patrick and I talked about the...
Supporting principals to make learning interesting [NAESP]
I had the opportunity at the 2026 National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) conference to sit down and talk with Dr. Jacob Easley for his EDUP podcast. It turns out that Jacob is good friends with my dean, Marvin Lynn! We spent most of our time discussing how to make learning...
Why male educators matter
For the past year I served as a Distinguished Educator Fellow for PDK International. The biggest highlight of that experience was getting to serve as an informal mentor for Owen Elsasser, a young educator from Nebraska. Mentor is the wrong word, though, because Owen is such a dynamo that I mostly...
Universal design for learning: Why one-size-fits-all doesn’t work – and what does [NAESP]
Liz Garden and I had the pleasure of hosting Kristan Rodriguez on the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) podcast. We had a wide-ranging conversation about universal design for learning (UDL) and how to build systems that shift from compliance to authentic student...