Education

Finding Balance in a Thirty Year Teaching Journey

I am in the thirtieth year of my high school teaching career. Thirty. Years. The most common response is “How did you do that?” quickly followed by some semblance of, “Good for you.” My reply, depending on my mood, ranges from “Thank you” to “Yup, it has been quite the journey” to “Is it? IsContinue reading “Finding Balance in a Thirty Year Teaching Journey”

What Schools Have Forgotten

Over two millennia ago Socrates emphasized that learning is a form of remembering. While this Socratic rabbit hole can bring us into questions of the nature of reality, I prefer to ground us in the idea of learning, remembering, and forgetting. We will focus on our school systems and, sadly, how they seem to haveContinue reading “What Schools Have Forgotten”