Collateral Learning

Have we shielded our kids from learning by protecting them from failure? It’s time to quite saving our kids from life’s most important learning opportunities.

John Lennon said it best: “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”  Sometimes this little fact is something we need to be reminded of while we’re stressing to get all our lessons ready or worried about whether or not our classes are prepared for whatever standardized testing their going to face to [...]

As a teacher I knew that the reason I was in the classroom was to ensure that the students received the best education I could offer.  Anything less than my best wasn’t good enough.  As their teacher and mentor I served to ensure that they had all the tools needed to further better their education.   [...]

My first year teaching, a couple of my colleagues gave me some great advice that has always stuck with me.  Joe had been a huge influence on me- he had been my Senior English teacher and when I had gone back to teach for my Alma Mater, he made me feel welcomed as a colleague [...]

While skimming through my feeds (okay, so I’m cleaning out my feeds again since there are over 1000 of them, again), I saw that a number of postings were coming from Edutopia and other sources that focused on the issue of Netiquette.  I’ve had a number of teachers all ask me about this over the [...]