A message to graduates
There’s a lot of noise out there. No doubt you’ve heard it by now. The advice. The questions. The expectations. The clichés about graduating, moving […]
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Parent Alert: Your child’s brain may actually shrink this summer
“Are you counting down?” Teachers hear this a lot this time of year. For the record, I’m not. I don’t. Yes, I know the end […]
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Increasing Student Motivation: A Teacher Toolkit
Aggregated by Rita Platt When it comes to teaching and learning, motivation is the name of the game. The best teachers are good salesman, only […]
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When hard work is lazy
I once asked someone who had worked incredibly hard, and reached a measure of success, how he did it. What motivated him day after day […]
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Motivation, Purpose and Samuel Pierpont Langly
“It’s making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.”—Deborah Meier. At the turn of the twentieth century, at the height […]
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Is the research paper dead?
“Students today depend on paper too much. They don’t know how to write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves. They can’t […]
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When praise goes wrong
I fancy myself a bit of a writer. It started way back in high school when I wrote for the school paper. I wrote short […]
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Should schools be run more like businesses?
Perhaps you have heard it said that schools should be run more like businesses–that public schools are soft, undisciplined, ineffective and would do well to […]
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Who has the most power: teachers or learners?
Once, when I was doing my student teaching, I created a test for a “Business Communications” unit. Now you have to understand that this was […]
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3 Reasons to Celebrate the Common Core State Standards, and 3 to Be Cautious
By Rita Platt The debate about the pros and cons of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is raging! At this point most of the […]
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