When striving to address the various learning modalities, Auditory Learners sometimes get shortchanged. After all, we “talk to” students during every lesson, doesn’t that serve their needs?

No, not really.

Like their visually or kinesthetically-oriented classmates, auditory learners benefit from...

If I have any living heroes in this world, Sir Ken Robinson would be chief among them. A friend posted a link to the short video below. When I watched it, I realized that the editing had actually altered the impact of Sir Ken’s lecture to the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactu...

There are times when I feel that I live my life in the mode of an omniscient narrator. I watch the interactions of others and can see things that don’t seem to be immediately obvious to them.

This skill often came in handy as a teacher. It allowed me the latitude to orchestrate the classroom. A g...

Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts
Green-Rainbow Party (GRP) leaders […] called the newly-released Department of Education report on high school graduation rates “reflective of the reality that our leaders highlighted throughout the campaign season; education is in serious crisis in Massachusetts...

MacNN | Jobs to get “Rotten Apple’ award without apology

Okay Mr. Jobs… the ball is in your court. Years ago, Apple decided the Education Market was its core business. In these days of iPods and iPhones, you may be forgetting that a huge percentage of your computer business is STILL teachers, form...

Okay, I’m not a teacher anymore. But, it wasn’t that long ago that I stood in front of a classroom and worked my butt off trying to inspire a love of learning. When I saw the title Apple CEO lambasts teacher unions out there on the web, I got worried.

I come from a long line of Union Reps and or...