Finding Life's Balance
Having requested to be part of a teacher ‘book club’ this was the first book chosen for this past school year – Grading for Equity (What it is, Why it Matters, and How it can Transform Schools and Classrooms) by
Inspired to read this book by a conversation by ELASCD and a discussion they were having about curriculum and instruction, I searched for work by the author H. Lynn Erickson (referred to, but not the speaker). To say I was
I have literally and physically just closed the hard cover of the book as I read the last pages of ‘An Elegant Defense’ by Matt Richtel. My mind is still trying to process all that I have read, all that
With a little extra time on my hands, I thought I would finish some of the books I started. Okay, I joke. I really don’t have extra time. But I have no pressing reading deadline to meet due to another
If ever there was a parenting handbook, this might be it. I confess I bought this book without reading much but the title. I also confess I bought this book hoping it would give me some insight into how my
I chose to read this book not only because of the title but because of the chapters. As a teacher, this year I’m hoping to create and complete a unit of astronomy with a section about space exploration and traveling/colonizing
As the last work of Stephen Hawking before his death this is quite the piece of literature. As he says in the closing chapter, even the great books of science will be read by only a few. This thought is
Monthly ago, I was trapped in a YouTube viewing spree. I couldn’t stop watching educationally motivated videos. I clicked on link after link and found myself engaged in a number of new ideas – not all of them worthwhile. In
For years I have been working at trying to develop a student-centered classroom. The problem I have realized is that in the end, the picture I had in my mind never quite ended up what was happening in front of
As a book study for the summer, my colleague suggested we read The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries about the Teenage Brain Tell Us about our Kids by Barbara Strauch. We are both teachers of high school students. For