We recently took a trip to New York City. Those of you who know us, know that the Mountain West is where we usually like to go. However, we needed to switch up. So, we looked for some great airport deals. BNA, TYS, and AVL have some incredibly affordable flights […]
Category: Instructional Design
Music About Wyoming and Incorporating Lyrics Into Classroom Literature
I love to go out West. You can still see the stars at night in most places. The weather is harsh during winter, and it keeps away the suburban squatters. If you take time to meet people, they will help you out and also pay you the courtesy of staying […]
It is springtime, and that means it is time to plant our gardens!
I have written three articles as part of this blog about incorporating gardening into school culture. This is kind of a fourth article in that series. This blog entry is more about my own personal backyard garden this season. You have heard me talk about experiential learning, a term which […]
International Studies Day
This was always one of my favorite days. We didn’t do it enough. Basically, each classroom(or grade level) in the school drew the name of a country from a hat. Classes were required to learn about that country and prepare an immersive, cultural classroom experience for International Studies Day, aka […]
The Library of Alexandria
Every, once in a while I come across ideas which would make for great student learning. Here is one of those ideas… I have been wanting to write about this ancient center of learning for quite some time. I believe that in order to inspire our students, we should teach […]
The Value of Publishing Student Work
We were in Livingston, Montana, a couple of years ago. After cooking for ourselves all week in a cabin which sat high on a mountain ridge of the Paradise Valley, we decided to traipse into town for some “real food.” Mainly, we were looking for a good place to have […]
The Promise: A Movie Review and Remembering the Armenian Genocide
I didn’t know much about the Armenian genocide until I watched The Promise(2016) several years ago. This weekend, I rewatched it again. It has a 91% audience approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. From the years 1914-1923, between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians were systemically murdered. This event is often not […]
Building Engaging Learning Environments: Integrating Modern Technology Into the Classroom
First and foremost, I feel like we are corrupting a beautiful resource(computers) in our modern educational environments. How is that? We are far too often using computers primarily to gather immense amounts of student testing data. Instead, we need to be teaching students how use technology as a powerful resource […]
Movie Review: Gifted Hands and The Story of Dr Ben Carson
This is kind of a short post today. I am an avid movie watcher. You also know me as a conservative Christian. So, when I see a great movie about a conservative American, I jump at the chance to watch it. Ben Carson is most recently known for his work […]
Shoah: The Need for Holocaust Education
Yad Vashem is the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, Israel. It bears solemn witness to the consequences of human hatred. It also bears witness to the Jewish people who survived and to those who helped them survive. But mostly is serves as an immovable reminder that the Jewish people faced an […]