Wretched Summer: Talking about race, policing and terror in the classroom

Mass killings, police shootings, protests, refugees, racial and religious discrimination, and all the other heavy stuff going on this Summer makes me uneasy. Smartphones, through viral videos, tweets and the hyper-sharing of news articles and comments by populist pundits, bring this stuff into the hands and the heads of students at all levels. What ever Read More

4 Tips to Create Learner Centered Classrooms: From Pre-K thru College

Students doing group work Where does Learning Take Place? Whenever I ask this question in my workshops, even seasoned educators tell me that learning takes place in the work that students produce or they gesture to the walls and ceiling, “Here. Learning is all around us.” Learning isn’t in the classroom or in books or Read More