Do your students inspire you? Is there something you do as an educator you especially enjoy? For me, co-teaching the very small Creative Solutions for the Global Good class at a high school I visit Read more…
There is something about great animated stories that allow us to work with our feelings in ways sometimes different than seeing footage of actual people. This award-winning story is called Umbrella, and it’s a reminder Read more…
If the pandemic disappeared tonight and all your students could come to class tomorrow, would you teach differently than you did pre-COVID? Would your school offer opportunities it hadn’t before? I hope the answer is Read more…
Seven years ago today, the Make-a-Wish Foundation ran what may have been its most involved project ever. Miles Scott, a boy who was fighting cancer, had a wish to be Batkid and help Batman save Read more…
I co-teach a very small class (referring to number, not stature, of students) called Creative Solutions for the Global Good. This semester, I’ve taken a bit of a different approach to the early homework assignments. Read more…
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been developing as much useful material as I can to help teachers and schools with the switch to online instruction under the cloud of COVID-19. That effort has produced Read more…
A teacher willing to engage in a little creative fun opens avenues for learning that students might not otherwise see. I write this thinking about the Kahoot game that my friend Nate Gildart (Nagoya International Read more…
In the early 00’s, I spent time as a principal of an experimental online high school. We worked under a self-paced curriculum for the students, helping them learn to become far more honest with themselves Read more…
How might a student react if told that he or she is the reason a teacher comes to work? This school decided to have teachers choose a student to encourage with this message, and (with Read more…
In December I wrote a post called “Really Different Schooling,” and asked folks to share ideas they have on what would make for a truly innovative school. There were plenty of answers, including: Full-year schooling Read more…