Ben Talsma
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Psychologist Marty Seligman had a lizard, and it wouldn’t eat. He tried everything. He researched its…
On the shores of Lake Michigan, a group of middle-school campers was having so much fun that they almost forget they were learning.…
I have a hypothesis and I’m curious to know what you think. Ready? Here it is: Teachers right now are better than ever. I’ve been…
Why did you become a teacher? If you join the profession after college and stay until you retire, you’ll spend forty…
“...with liberty and justice for all.” Many of us have said the words every day for years — but how often…
This Fourth of July, we celebrated our nation’s independence and our freedoms were on full display. Which fireworks event should we go to?…
There’s an old cliché in business that “what gets measured gets managed.” That reality is largely to blame for our overemphasis on standardized…
I went back to my old classroom yesterday, after all the students had gone home for the summer. Empty classrooms are always thick…