I think people across this country are sick and tired of dealing with central office employees who dictate practices to their kids’ schools and then have zero accountability when their policies fail! They just disappear when scores flop as a result of their interventions. And let’s be real, most of […]
Repetition, Review, and Reteaching: The BEST Educators Utilize These Strategies
Mastery comes through repetition, review, and reteaching. How often should one utilize repetition, review, and reteaching? Those three strategies should be indelibly embedded into every aspect of the teaching-learning cycle. My next question is this, and it is an important one… Does your school system’s pacing guide allow for plentiful […]
Dolly
An exemplar innovator. A twangy, transcendent Tennessean. A gifted songwriter who rose from humble means in Sevier County. Dolly Parton was often bigger than life, but she never, ever forgot that she was one of us. I grew-up in Knoxville, Tennessee, and am in fact, a native of that same […]
Podcast Review: Ethan Thornton w/ Mike Rowe
I talk A LOT about innovation on this site. I think innovation is so important that I incorporated the term into the title of this blog. Today, I am going to share a real world example of why critical thinking and creativity must be cultivated in our public schools. Folks, […]
A 3-Pack of Devotions to Start the New School Year…
I am going to make the last three posts(written today) more shareable by placing all of them in a single post. Licensed thumbnail photo by mrgao
A Blog Post Revisited: Demolishing Strongholds
I have never spoken at a school convocation. It is my understanding that one local convocation got a bit interesting. IYKYK. Anyway, if I could deliver a message to families in local school systems it would be simply to provide a reminder to all believers in education – parents, students, […]
Hosea 8
Hosea 8: 7 They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour.Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up. Sow the wind. Reap the whirlwind. What does that mean exactly? According to Bible Hub it means this… To “sow the wind” metaphorically represents […]
Honest Scales
Ted Lasso, Season 4, drops this week. I am rewatching old seasons to refresh my memory before the new season. I came across a scene which hammers home honest motives. During Season 1, episode 4(ironically titled “For the Children”), there is a scene near the end of the episode as […]
If you are gonna talk the talk…
You better walk the walk. In other words, if I walk down the street looking for a candy store, see a candy store sign, and go inside…and find a hardware store. That is a false advertising. The store just wants to lure you in with a false store front. Every, […]
Only One Thing Matters
You can have all this world – just give me Jesus. ~ Jeremy Camp As we are set to begin another school year, I want you to start asking this question(as a parent, as a student, and as an educator), “What really matters?” I had a previous assistant admin who […]