What day do schools start? One way to answer this is to look at a school calendar but what if this question asks more than that? What day do schools start for teachers? For teachers, it starts as soon as they start planning for the school year (likely in June or earlier). What day do schools start for students? This […]
The hero. The victim. The spectator. These are the primary student roles in the classroom. If you’re here looking for a blog on classroom jobs for students, move along, this isn’t that post. However, if you are looking for a way to use students’ natural tendencies to tell themselves a story about their lives to engage them in learning, this […]
New technology, online learning, AI support, tablets, phones, and screens. New programs, new curriculums, behavior plans, behavior incentives, discipline questions, and truancy officers. What do all these things have in common? Yes, you guessed it, these are some of the elements that are constantly changing in education. Despite these constant changes, there is one thing that has not changed in […]
Do you know how a pearl is made? When a bit of “grit” (an irritant such as sand) makes its way inside the shell of an oyster, the oyster protects itself by wrapping layers of calcium carbonate around the grit. This process results in the beautiful gem that we celebrate and wear in jewelry. The oyster does not enjoy grit. […]
“Ugh, I hate science class. It’s so boring! The teacher just rambles on about sciency stuff all day,” – student. We live in an interesting time in education. In the United States, we are privileged enough to have an established, solid, public school system. All minors must attend school until a certain age because each citizen with basic academic knowledge […]
