We almost moved to Wyoming once. I wish we had, but that is another story for another day. While researching several school districts in that region, we began to notice that at least a few districts in the Mountain West had adopted four day school weeks during the worst of […]
Category: Education Policy and Opinion
Lake Placid (1980): An Exemplar in Teaching
Herb Brooks was an innovator. He was a someone with that rare gift of being able to see a nearly impossible dream in the distance, and build a bridge to it. With the approach of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York, Herb knew that defeating the […]
Rebranding: Asphalt Paint and a Story of Surrender
Whew! In my community, our school logo(an Indian) was painted over after the first home game of the season. The logo was a massive and courageous face painted on the pavement between the stadium and field. It had been there for as long as I can remember. The logos on […]
Cell Phones in School: Pros and Cons
These cell phone bans by school systems are going to work about as well as prohibition did during the 1920s. We are trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube. That technology is here to stay whether we ban it or not. Let me say that I understand the […]
Relevancy in the Age of Information: Montessori Instructional Design vs Data Driven Instructional Design
Our school system’s convocation years ago featured a man who noted that within just a few short years our public schools would be rendered antiquated relics due to technology advancing so quickly that schools could not keep up with it. He was right. In my previous post, I was critical […]
The Switch to All Digital was Poorly Planned
Sometimes, I just have to get things out of my system. The switch to digital a decade ago is one of those things. I mean really in my school system it was a total disaster, and I am not yet sure that we have that mastered yet. The digital platforms […]
The Importance of Great Discussion in the Classroom
Words are maybe mankind’s greatest tools. They cause civilizations to rise and civilizations to fall. They bind people together in marriage. They are able to bring us great hope. They are able to bring us great despair. Words can heal. They can tear apart. When our children speak their first […]
An Introduction
The “why” to this blog….