Kindness is not a school subject or curriculum. While we do not teach kindness, we can and should model it for children and celebrate it when we see it. We can grow kindness even though we do not teach it. Continue reading
Kindness Is As Kindness Does
Should I Know or Just Google It?
I know it and I know what it means are two different levels of knowledge and understanding. In the age of Internet, schools are increasingly essential for the development of contemporary understanding of information. Continue reading
Gone: Three-sport Athletes and Bench Jockeys
Specialization and elitism have made being a three-sport athlete or a bench jockey very difficult in high school athletics. When so many athletes and families seek a competitive advantage, they crowd all others from the team bench. Continue reading
Being Taught By an Unprepared Teacher Is a Mathematical Certainty
Professional teacher preparation can no longer by assumed by a license to teach. Political pressure to put an adult in every classroom does not mean a prepared teacher in every classroom. Continue reading
Teach Less, Teach Better, Teach It Again and Again
We forget more than we remember is a fact of life. Using motivation theory, teaching essential and enduring content and skills, and using retention theory better assures that students will remember what they are taught. Continue reading
Are You Volunteering for an AI Dope Slap?
Generative AI is here; it is not going away. Educators can either dig into understanding and using it or get dope slapped as Luddites. Continue reading
Because Transparency Has Become Opaque Require Integrity
The patina of transparency no longer matters because it has lost its clarity and become opaque. Instead of transparency require integrity. The facts, please, not the lies. Continue reading
Learning Loss – Yesterday is gone, let it go!
It is time to let go of lost or missed pandemic learning. Children grow best in strengths-based education, not deficit-based. Stop worrying about the past and build the future. Continue reading
Parent Demands in Public Education are not Parent Rights.
There is little to no provision in law of parent rights regarding the education of their children. Public education is about children not adults. As partisan politics convert demands into rights, the focus of educational policy changes. Continue reading
Are We Prepared To Do What Needs To Be Done? Sometimes But Not Always!
School governance today is not for the weak in spirit. It faces new challenges that have no precedence. Finding resolution requires pulling up one’s socks and doing what must be done for the children we educate. Continue reading