Teach and learn

The 32nd Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll Of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools by Lowell C. Rose and Alec M. Gallup is very interesting. In fact, it made me smile most of the way through. The folks at Gallup do a great job asking good questions and presenting the info in [...]

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While traveling to Colorado for a workshop I picked up the latest copy of Fast Company. I was, and still am, filled with awe and curiosity from the Fast Company Fast 50.  I am sure that Fast Company only scraped the surface for innovative and growing companies and that it may have been virtually impossible [...]

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After a very large breakfast, an early morning conversation, and a belief that knowledge and change is created by bringing together different beliefs and philosophies, a group of us though we should unite as many forward thinking, innovative educators to share their thoughts and opinions on education today and how we can improve it for [...]

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It has been way to long since I posted anything and for my readers, all 1.5 of you, I am sorry. Upon the end of the school year my wife and I spent three weeks on vacation in Mexico. I will spare you the details of our tour but I will say that [...]

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I often ride my bike into work and when I am on my bike I seem to come up with my best lesson plan outlines.  Today I couldn’t finish a thought because my mind was flush with quotes from Sir Ken Robinson’s TED conference presentation called “Do schools kill creativity?”  We do a lot of [...]

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A few months ago I decided that I would be writing my Masters Capstone paper on Blogging in the classroom.  A few people asked me why I would choose that instead of a topic on classroom management or developing some sort of a strategy to teach grammar to my ESL students.  At first I couldn’t [...]

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