After 15 years in education, Back-to-School Night still makes me nervous. I guess it’s the idea of meeting parents for the first time and being in front of a different audience than what I experience daily with my students. Should I be nervous? What do parents want...
The headlines from the events in Norway on Friday July 22 were shocking: “Norway Police say 85 killed in island youth camp attack” and “Explosion, Shooting Rock Norway”. They reflected the actions of Anders Behring Breivik, a...
It seems like a no-brainer: We all reflect on our own experiences and apply that knowledge next time, don’t we? We might do this in our day-to-day experiences such as learning how to ride a bike or touching a hot stove for the first time, but in education, we don’t...
We all have memories of “bad” teachers. I remember sitting my high school government class in amazement as my teacher simply wrote the notes that we were to copy on the chalk board. Day after day he would write notes and we would copy them as the dust of previous...
