Dear Parents….Where are you ? I miss you! I need you. WE have a child to prepare for the world and I cannot do it alone. I call, I write, I email, I send Remind messages, I hold conferences but I never hear back from you. I’m worried about your Read more…
By Adrin Fisher So, I’ve been thinking about claiming credit. It seems to me that teachers have a tendency to claim credit when things go well, but to disavow all knowledge when things go sideways. I saw this at my first high school job. Teachers sat at lunch and complained Read more…
By Adrin Fisher Not to date myself, but when I was in eighth grade, there was this thing called diagramming sentences. There was a lot of diagramming sentences in my English class: we headed to the blackboard and grabbed some chalk with our homework papers held in sweaty fists, filling Read more…
by MK Jarvis The most important of the Big Ideas is we have to embrace learning as our fundamental purpose. So we make a shift away from our traditional focus on teaching to a focus on learning. –Rebecca DuFour Standards are the crux of the classroom, the center of Read more…
Once a father and mother took their son to a preacher with the hope that this man who had baptized their children with his own hands would provide a cure for their son’s unimaginable impulses—for his attraction to men.