Summer Is Time for Refreshing Teachers and Refreshing Lesson Plans

Before you teach last year’s lessons again, review, evaluate, and adjust. Schools do not provide time for this important work, so make it an August task. Your students will appreciate your efforts. Continue reading

Educating Problem Solvers

We get what we settle for, and today’s education creates Jeopardy players not problem solvers. We need mandates that make problem solving a school curriculum and grad requirement. Continue reading

School Faces Once Etched Are Forever Memories

Time does not diminish the significance of childhood, school friends. Their faces, personalities, and good traits are indelibly etched in our memory. Continue reading

Gifted Teachers Cause Indelible Effects

Exceptionally good teaching is a gift to a child. When it is taught by a gifted, an exceptionally good teacher, the gift has indelible effects. Continue reading

Loose the grads!

For decades we have turned to our youth, the next generation, to pay the price for our indiscretions. It is time now for our failed, elder leaders to vacate. They are responsible for our chaos and cannot change their stripes. Our future lives with our youth. Continue reading