COVID killed more than 1,000,000 Americans and caused educational loss and developmental problems for a generation of students. These are facts. Continue reading
Summer – School’s Necessary Fifth Quarter
Time is never an educator’s friend. The school year is so packed with teaching and learning there is scant time for review, consideration, and design. Summer is a school’s fifth quarter, the stretched extension of a school year for professional reflection and planning. If not then, when? Continue reading
Victory Dance in the End Zone of the School Year
Teachers and children celebrate the end of the school year – the last day of an academic season – as the passage of time. Step up your celebration to a victory dance in the end zone of the teaching and learning year. Celebrate the success of your work – you caused children to learn. Continue reading
Being What We Teach
Teachers always reflect what they teach. The band director plays an instrument, the shop teacher runs a lathe, the English teacher speaks in complete sentences, and the history teacher overwhelms us with facts from the past. Pandemic teaching caused us to “be” our more abstract values – problem solvers, evidence-based, collaborative, and collegial. We were exemplars of our best selves. Continue reading
Recentering Our Matters
Old Boomer educators don’t die; they just fade away. We need to retire Boomerisms with our Boomers. Continue reading