In teaching, we’re in the very business of kids leaving us. Often we get them for one year –sometimes, if…
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As a student, I learned early on that my name was different. A kind of difference that was not bad,…
As educators, we have an opportunity to help guide and empower students to find what matters to them, which may…
Tired. Depleted. Grumpy. The pandemic is wearing. We are long past novelty and the adrenalin that carried us through summer. In our community, numbers were…
When I signed on to teach at a school in Georgia at age 24, I assumed it would be an…
Why do we teach what we teach? What happens when a story we love isn’t greeted with enthusiasm by our…
Three years ago, I slipped into Tim Ferriss’s SXSWedu keynote “The Secrets of Accelerated Learning and Mastery” and found myself…
Imagine that you are the dean of the upper school at a K-12 day school along the rolling hills above…
For the most part, we rely on teachers to figure out themselves the importance of relationships with the actual building…
The rhythm of teaching grounded me. Having a class allowed me to quickly come to know fifteen girls as individuals,…
I honestly believe that school can be a port in our storms. Which is not to say that I don’t…
Back in the 1970s when I first entered the field of education, the following quote by historian and intellectual Henry…
