June 14, 2022 It’s afternoon, the end of the school day, and faculty are getting ready for a weekly workshop while students scurry out the building. The session that day
June 7, 2022 Choose a topic and conduct an internet search. The Wikipedia article on that topic is typically within the top 10, if not top 5, results. Because of
June 2, 2022 Tasks by definition are related to work and are often set, but opportunities have a sense of potential benefit and might present themselves or be discovered. Often
June 1, 2022 Sickened by the mass shooting, disgusted by a lack of political leadership, and fearful for my students and for my own young children, I hammered out a
May 26, 2022 Shiny new things are often the first noticed at a school. As well, trends grab hold of the popular narrative, and schools are forced to create programs
May 12, 2022 I ended the previous chapter with a teaser, one that I promised in this installment to explore: Can we really have learner-centered and competency-based education in our
May 10, 2022 As humans, we love to “strut our stuff” and show what we know. It’s in our nature. As a teacher, the best part of a project is
May 9, 2022 One’s discomfort with any form of difference shouldn’t come at the expense of another person’s ability to survive and thrive as their authentic self. As humanities teachers
May 3, 2022 As with most American high school students, my school requires me to complete ten hours of community service per year as a way to get us engaged
April 28, 2022 Recently I have been rethinking the idea of how we teach students to prepare them for the future. When I ask questions surrounding what they need in