Education
How to Help Grieving Students. And how not to.
Thanks to Valerie Strauss's blog in The Washington Post I've been alerted to a website devoted to helping grieving students.…
Have Courage: The Letter from Birmingham Jail
The Letter from Birmingham Jail One of the most resounding rebukes in history. And as you read you can hear…
Stay Curious
Some books, some ideas and some thinkers stay with you. They are like wells that you go back to dip…
Tests: “Is that all that matters to grown-ups?”
Test-weary second-grader asks school board: ‘Is that all that matters to grown-ups?’ Elitist parents threaten lawsuit after kids are called…
We Have Work To Do: Undoing Racism
This week began with a professional day for faculty and staff. Our theme was Identity, Privilege and Race provoked by…
Modern Learning and the Shock of the New
Here's something terrific for free: It's an E-book of great articles from the always useful Educating Modern Learners, an online…
Enough with all the grigor
Grant Lichtman has just suggested a bunch of words better than grit And they all work. And now it's time to…
How to grow your brain
Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain's capacity to learn and to solve…
Educating Global Citizens
We must foster global citizenship. Education is about more than literacy and numeracy. It is also about citizenry. Education must fully assume its essential role in…
Digging Deeper with The Five Whys
I first tried "The Five Whys" in a faculty meeting. It was an attempt to try something new in tackling…