Recently, five friends and colleagues from Highland Junior High in Gilbert, joined me for dinner and dialogue at a favored Italian Grill Friday evening. In anticipation of Teacher Appreciation Week, we gathered to share our thoughts about what teaching means
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Looking back on the year, I am encouraged. There are still challenges which are reason for great concern. But, since I know the way to address these challenges is immediate—I am encouraged. No, encouraged does not accurately describe it. Like
Read MoreThey dubbed us United Agents of Change. In reality, we didn’t feel like the red shoe (or tie) -wearing, super-powered, humans the name implies. We are teachers leaders from nine different countries countries: Australia, Canada, China, Finland, the Netherlands, Singapore,
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The joyful whispers started a month ago when the administrators in my school district announced that they didn’t know which state standardized assessment would be administered in the spring of 2015. Sighs of relief and plans of creative teaching were
Read MoreI just ordered a book, and I can’t wait to get it. Yesterday, I attended a panel presentation on Tempe’s ASU campus. The authors of 50 Myths and Lies that Threaten America’s Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education presented
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Why every teacher should be a writer.
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Teachers and students working in the classroom often know the tech tools we need, and we can learn them an implement them if the systems in our schools are responsive enough to meet our needs quickly.
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Sometimes as teachers, factors in our lives converge to provide a valuable epiphany about what we really need.
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Many times as educators—just by the nature of our profession– we’re in it because we love kids and are driven to leave a legacy of learning for the next generation. The very nature of the people who are called to
Read MoreOn the eve of the commemoration of Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr. let me echo the title of his famous oration by saying, I have a dream, too! During the era of his speech the equality of all Americans, as
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