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One of the salient needs of all human beings is to be in the company of other people. But it’s more than merely being in the presence of others. We crave to be in trusting relationships in which our needs and desires are recognized and appreciated. I think we crave this almost as much as…
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Evie Blad wrote a article in this week’s Education Week entitled, When School doesn’t seem fair, Students may suffer lasting effects. Her opening sentence… When students believe schools are unfair places, their loss of trust can lead to a lack of engagement that affects them for years, researchers say. …explains the challenge we face and…
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Getting personalized right, the recent edition of Educational Leadership, has a number of interesting articles. I’ve been making my way through them and thought I would share short synopses that could use to decide on whether an article was worth exploring in more depth. Carol Ann Tomlinson, generally a good bet for an interesting essay,…
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Check out the Storify (click here) for the extensive learning that 120+ Atlanta-area World Language teachers engaged in this weekend at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta. This is the second unconference that Middle School Westminster World Language teachers organized. Kudos to the organizers and much appreciation to all those who came out on a Saturday…
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You know the expression, “time flies when you’re having fun!” The Greeks had two words to express time, Chronos and kairos. Chronos was the word used to refer to clock time, time that can be measured in days, hours, minutes and seconds. Think of chronos as quantitative time, and part of words like chronology, chronic,…
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