Exceptionally good teaching is a gift to a child. When it is taught by a gifted, an exceptionally good teacher, the gift has indelible effects. Continue reading
Loose the grads!
For decades we have turned to our youth, the next generation, to pay the price for our indiscretions. It is time now for our failed, elder leaders to vacate. They are responsible for our chaos and cannot change their stripes. Our future lives with our youth. Continue reading
Integrity Matters: Teach the Uncomfortable to Cause Deep Learning
It is easy as a retired educator to bull my neck and growl at the social/cultural/political powers that demand schools teach their self-interested and slanted content and opinions. I no longer have skin in the game or employment to protect. … Continue reading
Adult Hypocrisy About Children and Technology Knows No Bounds
We life in the technology epoch spending inordinate amounts of time on screen with devices. Hypocritical adults claim children spend too much time while not being circumspect about their own on-screen time. Continue reading
Cursive – If You Can’t Write It, You Can’t Read It. Let’s Write a Wrong.
Reading, writing and arithmetic does not mean reading, printing and arithmetic. It is time to teach children write in and read cursive again. Continue reading