Filling In a Child’s Background Knowledge Deficit

When I say these words to an adult, “… there is a way of walking with crutches so that your arms hold your weight and not your shoulders,” I can quickly separate those who have experience with walking with crutches … Continue reading

Render Unto Caesar and Then Do the Right Work

Sir Ken Robinson is compelling. He is concise and concrete while ingeniously illuminating the concepts he very successfully develops in his publications and media presentations. He is believable and makes a believer of me. Recently, I viewed his You Tube … Continue reading

Learn Today or Lose the Day

“A day that you tarry is a day that you lose.” (Jeremiah Johnson, film -1972). Or, for a child, no time passes faster than a day of summer vacation and it is almost impossible to think about school and learning … Continue reading

A Moonlight Graham Smile

I am assigned to them and they are assigned to me. We meet at the same time every week day for almost nine months, rain or shine. I am supposed to help them; they are supposed to profit from my … Continue reading

Bad Bananas Can Rot the Bunch

Thanks to State Senator Luther Olsen for his likening the Wisconsin legislature to a banana republic, and not the clothing store. Senator Olsen referred to the legislature about face relative to its partisan decision to countermand its 2011 decision to … Continue reading