Aug 31 2016

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

May 25 2016

What Are the 2016 Candidates Saying About Education?

All the 2016 Presidential Candidates have education visions and education policy reform ideas. It’s just that these ideas have gotten lost in the self-immolation and squabbling that have dominated the media sphere during the 2016 Election Campaign. Compared to this stuff, education, normally an incendiary issue, isn’t that newsworthy. Education doesn’t get you millions of click Read More

Feb 05 2016

4 Ways to Reboot, Refocus and Recharge your Teaching

In the on-season, athletes train for long periods, enter competitions and win (or lose). During the off-season, they rest, meditate, do some physical prep for the next season like stretching and weight training, study their craft and reconnect with friends and family. What athletes like Serena Williams and Christiano Ronaldo do in the off-season is Read More

Jan 22 2016

4 Tips to Learn How to Learn

You attended that work retreat least weekend that was supposed to help you learn new stuff. But did you ever learn how to learn? Did you ever learn how to make information part of long-term memory that can be appropriately used in the future? Most people are not taught strategies and habits that help them Read More