Now that the school year has come to a close, and you’ve got final grades and assessment results, you may find yourself wondering…now...

Happy Mother's Day! Today is one of the very few times a year, if not the only, where mom's give themselves permission to be the center...

Testing season is upon us (more so on our children)! Depending on your county, your child is taking some combination of NWEA, Dibels,...

Achieving balance for students Every year that I was in a classroom, there was always that one child who enters the room merely because...

Given that my post last week was about the detriments of homework, you may be shocked at my perspective on summer (don’t stop reading...

Homework is a hot topic. Some parents want extra practice for their kids, while others fight the daily homework battle with their kids....

Having been in education for so long, I hear about families who retain advocates to help them fight for their child’s right to an...

In his book “The Schools Our Children Deserve”, published way back in the dark ages of 1999, Alfie Kohn suggested that our insistence on...

Recently I was travelling with an accomplished army colonel, and he proposed something I had not considered. His formal training, degrees...

It is likely that most of us have heard the joke about teachers not being in education for the money or the glory. Both of those are...