Saturday, October 26, 2013

The Right of Revision

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As teachers and leaders, we frequently tell our children that it's ok to make mistakes, that is the only way we learn. Sounds great, see...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

The Power of Passion

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I'll admit, I didn't get it. I had been to Google this past summer, walked through their halls, met with their engineers and public ...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

21st Century Teachers

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My child participated in Destination Imagination last year. The task was to build a structure that could hold a certain weight and have cert...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

The Enemy's Gate is Down - Lessons in Learning from Ender's Game

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Twenty-five years ago, I picked up my favorite book for the first time. I remember getting caught up in the story of a young boy who learns ...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Teach to the Test or Help Children Deeply Understand the Concepts? Which Matters?

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So often as a society we forget how fantastic our people in the classroom are. It's not that we don't think highly of them, we do. I...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

The Asterisk, Lowering the Mound, & The 100 Free: What Education & Government Need to Learn From Sports

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In the summer of 1990, while I was looking at colleges, the Detroit Tigers had a pudgy first baseman who was hitting the ball over the fence...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

The Defensible Position: How School Districts Made Good Teachers Become Betty Crocker

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Somewhere along the line, we became afraid of the parents. Maybe it happened after A Nation at Risk, maybe it was before. I was too young at...