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Ben Talsma

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August 11, 2021 The Top Reasons: Creating Direction in Your Classroom

Why did you become a teacher? If you join the profession after college and stay until you retire, you’ll spend forty…

July 21, 2021 ... and Justice for All

“...with liberty and justice for all.” Many of us have said the words every day for years — but how often…

July 7, 2021 Exercise Your Learning Freedom

This Fourth of July, we celebrated our nation’s independence and our freedoms were on full display. Which fireworks event should we go to?…

June 16, 2021 Pass the Right Test: Measuring Student Development

There’s an old cliché in business that “what gets measured gets managed.” That reality is largely to blame for our overemphasis on standardized…

June 9, 2021 The Empty Classroom and Promoting a Healthy Mindset

I went back to my old classroom yesterday, after all the students had gone home for the summer. Empty classrooms are always thick…

May 26, 2021 An Open Letter to Teachers

To Whom it May Concern: Congratulations! You’ve made it. You’ve persevered through the most difficult school year of our…

May 12, 2021 Recovering from a Pandemic

The world is living through a K-shaped recovery; certain sectors of the economy have recovered quickly from the…

April 28, 2021 Why and Why Not: Two Questions at the Heart of Education

During World War I, the death rate from bacterial pneumonia was 18%. In World War II, that number fell to less than 1%,…