Student Ownership
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I have always struggled to accept failure. To be fair though, I think this is a problem most people share. From an early age we’re…
The other day I sat down and had lunch with a co-worker. This may not sound like anything extraordinary, but after a year of wearing…
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…
Congratulations! We’ve done it. It’s been a long, challenging year for teachers (that’s an understatement!), but we have finally reached the finish line. Amidst a…
Last week I FINALLY got my 16-year-old nephew to agree to a chore. I told him that his lawn needed to be mowed and that…
During World War I, the death rate from bacterial pneumonia was 18%. In World War II, that number fell to less than 1%,…
With everything occurring in our world right now, I find myself asking big questions. Now, I realize many of the questions don’t have…