Recently, my daughter was laughing at herself for her failure to to successfully carry on conversation while she was passing food around the dinner table. “I guess I don’t multitask very well,” she said. Her sister pointed out that actually everyone multitasks all the...
Think about what you want for your students. Yes, we all want our students to master the standards and learning objectives. But as educators we should want more than that. Personally, I want to see my students now, and later in life, become life-long learners who are...
What makes a question truly essential? Let’s take that a step back and ask, “What is essential?” For me personally, every morning an immediate cup of coffee, my Bible, my Abide app, and my journal are essential to having a great morning. Being a former Dave Ramsey...
Editor’s Note: This article was written by the founder of Clerestory Learning and creator of the Foundations & Frameworks reading program. Clerestory Learning partners with Curriculum Trak to make the companion maps of their courses available for import into your...
As an English teacher of more years than I like to mention, I am often asked, “What is your favorite book?” How does one answer that? “Anything by C.S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, Jane Austen, or J.R.R. Tolkien?” “All mysteries?” “Whatever causes me to see God in a new,...