Tag Archives: Education

The View After Ten Years

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I spent so many years in college working part time jobs to get by.  I never thought I’d one day be writing on my blog about my teaching experiences of ten years.  Now that I’m here though, I can tell you it is beyond what you can imagine.  There is a point in education when [...]

Where the Wild Things Are

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This post was inpsired by a children’s book I read my kids a lot.
Did you ever think a choice was good and when you took it found you were stuck headed to a dead end? This happened to me once when I was 19. I had just quit my job at the grocery [...]

Squinting to See the Rainbow: Randy Pausch

Update: I wrote the post below 8 months ago. Since then, Randy has been on Oprah and the cover of every magazine imaginable. You can read how he is doing on his journey here. This guy is an incredible example of a possibility thinker. I try to emulate him. As [...]

Me on Video Telling an Embarrassing Story

I asked my lovely wife Sarah to video me telling this story. I wanted to get you thinking about times you may have wanted to “crawl into your shell.” This post is really to raise awareness about a site I ran across that deals with shellfish education. As bad as that [...]

My Article: "Public Schools' Annual Review" Published on Associated Content

Check out my recently published content on AC:
Public Schools’ Annual Review
In this article I confront the state test as assessment for public school students and teachers.  From the opinion of a teacher I challenge the notion of whether it can be an effective catch-all for our problems in education.  I hope you’ll read it and [...]

Kicking Up the Cobblestones

Do you know that Simon and Garfunkel tune? You know the one where they say … “Feelin’ Groovy!” That came into my head as I was thinking about what to blog on today. Another psychology topic, that makes two in a row. This one is more specifically about what I call the “Psychology of Perception.”  I [...]

PowerPoint is a great tool! Want a Stumble?

I’ve officially become a “regular” contributor over at Edublogs magazine which is edited by Lorelle VanFossen. This is an enormous sense of arrival for me in my writing career since education is my life and coming up fast behind is blogging.
Lorelle has been a hero of mine in blogging for quite a while now. [...]

Edublogs Magazine Publishes My: "Paper Does Not Control Me"

I’m pleased to announce my latest publishing on Edublogs Magazine. They read my blog and approached me about using one of my posts on their site. This was very nice of them. Ironically, my post was one I never thought would amount to much other than therapy for my frustration with paper [...]

Teaching Honesty

How honest is the world?
Politicians who say we are making progress in Iraq
A Court System that set O.J. Free
A government in denial about the national debt
American Idol represents “the best talent in the world.”
Santa Claus … ’nuff said
I teach my kids to be honest, however socially irrelevant it may be.

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