Noblemania

When I flew back from a school visit in Ohio on 3/13/20, little did I know it would be the last such trip for a while. Like the rest of the...

If you'd told me after my Ohio school visit on March 12, 2020 (and after I'd spoken at schools for nearly 20 years) that the next t...

I feel so fortunate that my job has enabled me to travel to a dozen countries to speak, yet after the past 18 months, I already look back a...

Today I stood on a stage to give a presentation to human beings in the same room for the first time since March 12, 2020.  Memorable enough ...

Cringe not — I'm not going to recount every visit one by one. I'm also not going to reflect more broadly on our COVID year (because ...

Well, a verdict, anyway: thumb’s up (whether the Zoom icon or your actual flesh-and-blood digit).  In the shell-shocked early months of COV...

The date will vary from person to person, but for almost everyone in the world, the world changed drastically sometime between March 9 and 1...

school visit 2019: email contract to school ensure school signs and returns contract  make travel plans/reset forgotten passwords make sure ...

When author/friend/force of nature Kwame Alexander asks you to guest star in the first episode of a new show he created, you do it . Even du...

Batman is in the Justice League. Meanwhile, Bill Finger is in Little League…or rather would have been, if not for the pandemic. This year...

For the past 20 years, I have had the great privilege of speaking in hundreds of elementary, middle, and high schools worldwide.  At the ...

In 1968, a gifted and beloved session musician named Henry Grimes—who’d played with Thelonious Monk and Benny Goodman, who helped pioneer f...

Due to social distancing to reduce the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), so much of the world is simultaneously experiencing something many...

My friend Jason Schneider is the VP of Product Development for a highly imaginative company called Gamewright . Last summer, he asked me ...

Schools worldwide are closed in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus). It is heartening to see author/illustrator frie...