I’m sitting here on the Sunday night before school starts contemplating two questions: 1) If your students didn’t have to be there, would you be teaching to an empty room? 2) Do you have any lessons you could sell tickets for? (from Teach Like a Pirate) Education is making a very needed change.  The shift […]

A fellow teacher sent me this info-graphic recently and it surprised me.   I would want to know where this data came from, but as a literacy teacher, this is not what I wanted to find!  Never read another book?  And the percentage is even higher for college graduates?  That is hard for me to […]

“Junior, you need to go college” is probably one of the better known mommy-isms, second only to ‘Be careful, that’ll put your eye out!”  Due to the changes in our modern workforce, (including globalization) – we need to step up the heat on our kids and proclaim college as a non-negotiable.  Taking a few minutes […]