Dominant logic often isolates higher learning research from the teachers who need to apply it. There are pay walls that keep average everyda...
Key tips to get along with angry colleagues
I sit here at 7:11 watching Shadow and Krispy, the cats, eye each other in a circle wondering who will attack first. Oops. There they go. ...
The Right Tough: and ponderings on "F's" in school
Falling is scary. Most of us fall down sometimes. I can trip and fall flat on the ground. When I fall down I have two choices. I can sit th...
Is a teacher's non-use of technology an excuse to be demoted?
And thus school has begun. I have a mysterious little bird - always writing these messages on my board. I know who the bird is but turn m...
Sylvia Martinez and The Maker Movement: Invent to Learn, Tinker to Teach! #makered #makerspace
The Maker Movement is here. Invent to Learn by Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager is the definitive book on the Maker Movement in Schools Wha...
McDonnell welcomes STEM education to Lynchburg
Bringing more science-based education to Virginia's students has been a priority of Governor Bob McDonnell and so, on Monday, he was in ...
A teacher's heart speaks on the first day of school
My youngest has moved up into sixth grade. My how time flies. When I talked with him on Thursday about his week his first response was: &q...
Bring it: The most important thing a teacher can bring to school
My air conditioner has been broken all this week. They have ordered a part but we’re not sure if it is going to be here before school start...
A great way to appreciate teachers for #backtoschool
I'm drafting this on Monday night after our first day of preplanning at school. Today at lunch, our PTO had the nicest "teacher ap...
Comparing Business to Teaching: A Wake up Call to the World
Of all of the jobs I’ve had in my life, teaching takes the most energy and patience and is by far the hardest of what I’ve done. When I was...
Questioning Rigor
There is a part near the end of the book Teach Like a PIRATE by Dave Burgess where he questions why we’re using the term rigor. (Read als...