Greetings!

I hope this finds you well. It was a long spring.

As I navigated personal tragedies among our friends and family and the events unfolding around us, I've never been so grateful for the five Compass questions and all your insights about them.

With myself and people in my life, workshops, keynotes, and coaching groups, I've been using our most powerful unsticking tool, the ? mark, as a gentle way to...

  • Let stuff go, e.g. about what matters most (A newsletter every season? Nah.)
  • Let new stuff come, e.g. a silly idea (A "Spring into Summer" newsletter? Sure!)

...and together, to reflACT on the academic year and envision a meaningful summer ahead.

Below are just a few of the new Compass resources. More updates and the usual tools, videos, and events are at innovatorscompass.org (with a new "search" option at the bottom). Please use and share these resources and share back experiences!

To unsticking and springing into summer,
Ela Ben-Ur, Founder of innovatorscompass.org
As seen and heard in...
Thanks to Unstuck Minds for a last-page spotlight in their Quarterly Scan!

And Potential Squared for having me on their recent Leadership podcast and upcoming webinar (where "grow up" will be debated!) this Monday at 10 EST.
New videos
This new video created for the Teacher Success Summit focuses on considerations, ideas, tips, and stories you've shared about exploring the Compass questions with groups of adults or children in a range of situations.


This overview video for the CoSN education tech leadership conference (Holly Doe, co-facilitator) conveys the power of one observation or idea to unleash the power in one student, teacher, parent, team, leader, community, and district.
The free app got fancier!
Hieu Nguyen, creator of icompass.me, worked wonders! The free online app now lets you format and align multiple stickies, access recent changes and workspaces, and more.
And yes, I still have UNSTICKers!
Check out this 2-minute intro video (or a picture book/video for kids):