We Need To Talk About An Injustice
If you only watch one presentation from TED 2012, watch this one from Bryan Stevenson. "Our humanity depends on everyone's humanity."Equal Justice Initiative
View ArticleWe Are Not Just Studying Human History, We Are Shaping It
Warning: Contains mature content and a few brief graphic images.Update: There are some questions about the credibility of these folks. (And this.) Before my original post I did some brief checking and...
View ArticleTrends I'd Like My Future Principal to Consider: Jobs Are Disappearing, But...
I touched on employment in a previous post in this series, but wanted to revisit it briefly after reading this article:This is all a part of the transition toward a postindustrial economy.Jeff Dachis,...
View ArticlePoints I'd Like My Future Principal to Remember: Students Are Not Customers
I'll admit I've used the "students as customers" phrase myself a few times. And, in the sense that meeting the needs of students is the teaching profession's primary reason for being, I still buy that....
View ArticleDoing Your Best to Build the World Anew
I came across this passage in John Bogle's Don't Count On It! and it resonated as I thought about our students, so I thought I'd share it here.Bright futures lie before you. There's the world's work to...
View ArticleDon't Fear Failure
(Posted this to my class blog, but thought I'd share it here as well.)One of the problems I think we have in schools is that we train students to fear failure, to avoid it at all costs. Now, to be...
View ArticleIdeas I’d Like My Future Principal to Consider: Starting a Bold Conversation...
So I haven’t written one of these for a while for a few reasons, but one of the major reasons is I now know who my future principal is going to be (Hi Natalie!) and it feels somewhat awkward to write...
View ArticleTED-ED Launches
I wanted to point to a new resource that some of you might find valuable: TED-ED. (Full Disclosure: While I did not play a major role, I was part of the planning process for this.)To get a good...
View ArticleA Fundamental Flaw
From the May 21st issue of Fortune Magazine (article not online yet), comes this quote from Fred Smith, founder and CEO of FedEx:We put so much emphasis on "college degrees." Well, in Germany students...
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Flawed and Uneasy Compromise
I'm stuck. I don't particularly like how I'm assessing in Algebra, but I'm not bright (creative?) enough to figure out how to do it better.I've tried to strike an uneasy balance the last two years...
View ArticleAn Education Bubble?
I watched this debate the other day between entrepreneur Peter Thiel and Google CEO Eric Schmidt. It was moderately interesting, but the part that got me thinking was in the last few minutes (about the...
View ArticleWhat Would You Attempt To Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail?
(I just posted this on my Algebra Class Blog and sent an email to the parents of my incoming students suggesting they read the post and watch the video with their student. Thought I'd share it here as...
View ArticlePursue Your Glee
(Originally posted on my Algebra Class Blog, but I thought I would share it here as well.)There was an interesting article in today's Denver Post about Melissa Benoist, a 2007 AHS graduate. I don't...
View ArticleConnected Learners at AHS
We've been talking about trying to get laptops (or other devices) into each one of our student's hands for a long time at my school. In fact, I believe it was the fall of 1999 that we started up our...
View ArticleAlgebra Gets a Bad Rap
Algebra gets a bad rap. In this instance, I'm being completely literal. Let me explain.I think my lesson planning just jumped the shark, but we'll see. We're learning about slope/rate of change in my...
View ArticleOld School
The CD is thirty years old today. (Okay, technically, thirty years ago today the first CD players were announced, but close enough.) Depending on your age, this either makes you feel old . . . or young...
View ArticleThe Eliot Era?
I'm trying to blog more often, mostly for my own sake. So this is another post just to capture a thought I had today.I heard this story on NPR this morning. It was about the discovery of three new...
View ArticleDear President Obama and Governor Romney
I watched about the first sixty minutes of the presidential debate last Wednesday night. I've never really thought that a debate was a particularly good way to pick a President - or any politician....
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Backwards!
I've read/watched/listened to several items over the last few weeks that are trying to coalesce into a common theme. I'm not sure I quite have what that theme is yet, but I'm going to share...
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