Career Prep Pathways Need Prioritizing

School boards need to re-evaluate their priorities, acknowledge the 40% of graduates who do not enroll in a college or university, and start paving a CTE curriculum where students’ footprints already exist. Continue reading

Change Cell Phones from Distractions to Learning Tools

Every generation of teacher and student has a issue they fight over. Today it is cell phones. Make these into learning tools not distractors and get on with teaching learning. Continue reading

Rules Should Serve Kids Not Adults

Today it’s cell phones and backpacks.  Depending upon your generation, it was chewing gum, the length of girls’ skirts, boys’ low-slung jeans and exposed boxers, high school boys with face hair, or checking that every child showered after PE class.  … Continue reading

Do I Teach Subjects to Children or Children to Understand Subjects?  Huh?

“I am a teacher.  I am a licensed social studies teacher.  My teaching assignment is middle school social studies; 7th and 8th grade, to be exact.  These are statements about my profession, my licensure, and my teaching assignment.  They are … Continue reading

Disaggregated, There Is a Vast Difference in Teachers

Teachers are a vast hodgepodge of people.  They come in all colors, shapes and sizes, and from the wide spectrum of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.  At one point, each decided to be a teacher.  Some early in life, the majority … Continue reading