Posts Tagged ‘discovery’
Attention Scripted Curriculum Creators: John Dewey Would Hate You
You teach long enough and you eventually figure out that educational best practices are cyclical. What’s hot this year might not be next. But in three more, it’ll come back. I’ve taught at a school where the principal strongly urged teachers to make the students do more work on their computers via online modules like…
Read MoreChampions of Education (even though theirs sucked)
To Joe and Lois, my book’s dedication reads, who always did right by their kids if not by each other. These are my parents, and theirs was a marriage doomed from its beginning. This paragraph in chapter 10 of my new book, Where I Belong, sums up their 50-year union: “That neither of them went…
Read MoreWriters Workshop To Open Mic
In the summer of 2023, at the urging of a professor friend, I attended the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop. I took a week-long, autofiction class taught by Robin Hemley. We wrote every day in class, and I continued writing on my friend’s farm on the outskirts of Iowa City at night. One of the…
Read MoreAffirmative Action: It’s Not Political, It’s Personal
I don’t vote. I say this with a great deal of pride. I’ve voted just one time in my 55 years. Back in 1992. It’s a regret of mine. I was in college. Like many college students, I was an idealist and was going to change the world. Politicians assure those on campus that they…
Read MoreMarcy Speaks!
Marcy speaks! Eh, sort of. Well … not really. But, hey, I heard words come out of her mouth, I promise you. As explained on the Selective Mutism Association (SMA) website, selective mutism “is an anxiety disorder characterized by a person’s inability to speak in certain social settings such as at school, work, or in…
Read MoreWhere I Belong – Preview – Chapter 1
What follows is preview of Where I Belong. Enjoy Chapter 1 and then consider picking up the entire book! The Cessna ascended, like my expectations. This was it, I hoped. I go into all of my various new jobs thinking this way. No more bouncing job to job, city to city, country to…
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