Too Many Options
Students today have no idea how good they have it. They have access to more knowledge, more content, more material, more instructors, m...
Mastering Parent Communication
When you study education in college, they tell you how important communicating with parents and engaging the community is.
As a wide...
Pay Attention!
The 2009-2010 school year was a rough one for me. It was my second year teaching. Usually the first year is the worst. Fortunately, my ...
Learning to Fail and Failing to Learn
There are several professions where failure is catastrophic. They're fairly obvious, but for the sake of argument, I've made a short li...
GPT in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Teachers
As educators, we're always on the lookout for tools that can enrich our teaching and engage our students. Enter GPT, an AI technology t...
Using the Enneagram to Uncover Your Blindspots in Teaching
If you've never been one to dabble in the realm of personality tests or astrology, you're not alone—I've always been a skeptic myself. ...
You just changed my life!
During the summer of 2020 I had the chance to train teachers on our school district’s new learning management system. It was full-on pa...
The Ideal Classroom (According to AI)
While doing professional development and experimentation with AI imagery, I decided to ask it what it could consider the ideal classroo...