teaching advice
Answers and Cool Stuff
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…
teaching advice
Nate’s Acts of Kindness Kahoot
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…
teaching advice
Really, Really Strong Professional Development
What makes for the strongest professional development you’ve experienced? Does it: Help you to accelerate acquiring new skills to bring to your teaching? Extend your professional network through connections with dynamic teachers from many types Read more…
teaching advice
The Challenge of Austin’s Butterfly
If we’re picking the best educational videos of the first fifth of the century, I’d certainly include on my list “Austin’s Butterfly: Models, Critique, and Descriptive Feedback” from EL Education. Expeditionary Learning is the company Read more…
teaching advice
For Who They Are
We all are asked for advice from time to time, and over my years as a high school teacher, I occasionally get a question from one of my charges about relationships. Whether asking me is Read more…
teaching advice
One Who Tries
We frequently ask students to try harder. It’s one of those things a teacher is supposed to do. But saying it, and saying it in such a way that it elicits the effort we want Read more…
service
Off the Charts Cool
In the swamp of seemingly endless stories about corruption, lies, shootings, and similar, it can be hard to be optimistic about the future. And yet, there are people like Manu Prakash. Centrifuges are devices used Read more…
service
It Just Arrives
The first time I watched this video about a South African woman who knits warm things for babies she’s never met, I was moved by the power of her voice to speak to what matters. Read more…
school leaders
Worth the Reflection
“Don’t worry; you’ll grow out of it.” The boy looked back at my smile quizzically, with that, “Did he just encourage me or insult me?” look on his face. The truth is that it was Read more…
school leaders
The Welcome
Ask a lot of people what they are planning to do when they retire, and you’ll get the response, “As little as possible!” Were you to have asked that of my friend Cecelia a few Read more…