This is bound to make some people angry, but here goes anyway: does becoming parents ourselves make us better teachers? Of course, the first follow-up question is, “what does ‘better’ mean?” I don’t even know if I have an answer to this, but I started thinking about this because in the last three years I’ve [...]
On March 7, 2011, I finally did something I have wanted to do for a long time: I made available for download all the materials I developed, adapted, and otherwise used for all the courses I taught over the span of my eight-year career teaching high school English. Why I Did It First, why I [...]
Every so often I come across language used in such a way that makes me wonder what the intent behind the words is. As we all know, sometimes the words said and the message conveyed are two very different things. Recently, my son was playing with one of his birthday gifts, and I noticed this [...]
Today’s post is my contribution to an ongoing project organized by purpos/ed, “a non-partisan, location-independent organization aiming to kickstart a debate around the question: What’s the purpose of education?“ I am honored to have been invited to contribute my response to this question by purpos/ed co-founder Doug Belshaw. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION? The [...]
In the current edition of the National Association of School Psychologist’s [NASP] Communiqué, Dr. Stephen Lange has an editorial entitled, “Is There a School Psychology Diaspora?” (read the full text here). Though the piece asks more questions than it answers (rarely a bad thing, in my mind), it struck a chord with me in terms [...]
