I like James Durbin’s commentary on a life’s many turns. “It is what it is. It is what you make it.” Durbin is a singer-song writer living and succeeding with Tourette syndrome. A bad public image is what it is. … Continue reading
The School Year: A Purchase of Time Not Achievement
Right now, discard everything you have been told about why a school calendar is nine months long. Forget being told that the school calendar is matched to an agrarian lifestyle when children were needed as farm labor in the summer … Continue reading
Teacher Talent: Recognize and Honor Franchise Teachers
Franchise teachers? They exist, but I cannot ever recall a public conversation about a franchise teacher. We accept that professional sports, high powered businesses, and medical and tech enterprises have franchise employees. The Green Bay Packers win or lose on … Continue reading
Education Needs the Best and Brightest To Be Teachers
Creating a new generation of talented, professional teachers begins when today’s teachers and counselors say to the most academically advanced children in each classroom and school, “You should be a teacher.” Implanting a positive conception of teaching as a profession … Continue reading
The Professional Teacher Has An Image Problem
This is the first in a series of blogs about enhancing “Teacher Talent: A Profession In Need.” Teachers and the teaching profession “has a major image problem. Unfortunately, this perception of mediocrity has negatively affected the national reputation of teaching, … Continue reading