Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com I love learning—I really do. But my dreadful experience with “school” still influences much of my work in education. I hated “school.” It was pointless for me, as it is for so many other students. From...
Photo by Miguel Á. Padriñán on Pexels.com “It would be nice if all of the data which sociologists require could be enumerated because then we could run them through IBM machines and draw charts as the economists do. However, not everything that can be counted counts,...
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Ask ten teachers what their job is, and you’ll receive ten different answers. However, most of them share the common goal of preparing the next generation of citizens. Yet, educators acknowledge that the world in which...
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com A new, comprehensive report from the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research delves into the critical period of adolescence, a time of significant growth and change that sets the stage for adulthood. The report emphasizes the...
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman To become an expert at something, you have to practice that something. Doctors and lawyers often use the term “practice” to describe their daily work. Educators are the same. We practice every day. And we get a...
