The soundtrack for A River Runs Through It is cinematic perfection, specifically the main title. When the fiddle begins to hum the familiar music, I […]
Category: Instructional Design
The Arts Embedded: How to Incorporate Visual Arts and Music into Your Classroom
Happy Friday!!! Our goal as teachers is to give all parts of the brain a good workout. I used to kind of look down on […]
Pacing Guides are #@!%
Let them eat cake. It is a phrase associated with telling poor, starving French souls to go eat something even more expensive than bread(which they […]
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 […]
Virtual Field Trips
I love Google Earth. I am on it pretty much every day. You can go anywhere. If I am going on vacation, I use Google […]
Freshman English and the Gift of a Professor
Literacy wasn’t my best subject as a kid growing up. In fact, I didn’t like it. When I got to the university level, I didn’t […]
It is time to re-invent, re-think, and re-imagine the entire process of educating students…
To be blunt, we have too many people in the system of American education who are just blowhards. They sound good. Their presentations are well-polished. […]
An Introduction
The “why” to this blog….