Collateral Learning

We hear it all the time- gripe, gripe, gripe.  Faculty and team meetings get lost among all the complaints about students and learning and administration and parents and lack of texts and lack of supplies and the broken copier and the pathetic lunch options and on and on and on.  In facilitating a discussion the [...]

The first day of school is always a difficult one.  The wife and kids leaving behind a turbulent summer vacation and I am still longing for the days when I used to get a summer vacation (why did I ever sign that 12 month contract?)  But this year’s First Day was exceptionally rough- the new [...]

In putting together my notes for the presentation I’m giving on “Ethics in the Digital Age” at the Laptop Institute in Memphis, TN, I ran across a posting from David Warlick.  I had the pleasure of meeting David a couple of years ago when he was a keynote speaker at the Laptop Institute, and I [...]

I had an experience that I think more and more teachers are having recently.  I’ve been out of the classroom for a couple of years, but in my previous life I was a religious studies teacher at an all-boys independent Catholic School.  Over my six year tenure there, I taught many kids who had an [...]