April 5, 2023 Before Seth Godin’s famous marketing book, Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, hit the market, we were first treated to the concept of the purple
April 3, 2023 What do we owe our kids? What do we, the people who consider ourselves adults today, owe our kids, all of our kids across the globe, in
March 30, 2023 As the government passes an extra $50 million injection to civics education, I wonder how we take advantage of this opportunity to ensure that every student actually
March 29, 2023 Building Character When the Covid-19 pandemic began, it was difficult to find an article about adolescence that didn’t mention the uptick in anxiety among young people, including
March 15, 2023 Of all the claims that schools make, perhaps the most ubiquitous is the assertion that “our students learn to take risks.” Risk-taking is meant to suggest that
February 28, 2023 Part of great teaching is developing and testing hypotheses as to why some things work for your students—and others, sometimes the most beautifully designed lesson plans—just don’t.
February 27, 2023 Dr. Jill Walsh is a sociologist who studies how teens use digital spaces to shape their identities. In Adolescents and Their Social Media Narratives, she explores how
December 22, 2022 In 2020, the National Asian American Voter survey found that 70% of Asian Americans supported Affirmative Action, while only 16% of them opposed it. Despite this, some
December 21, 2022 If you learn quickly, you are smart. If you learn slowly you are … dumb. This is the message we send to students every day in schools
December 16, 2022 Last year in an advanced English class, a student came to office hours in deep angst. If she were a whistling kettle, she would have been emitting