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In my professional life, I am a long-standing teacher of foreign languages at an independent school in the South, who decided it was time to pursue more education as one part of my professional growth plan. This summer, I had the advantage of starting a degree program at selective college in the United States, so…
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Timothy Prestero, founder and CEO of Design that Matters, runs a nonprofit that designs products for the poor in developing countries. Mr. Prestero delivers a very interesting TED talk entitled, Design for people, not Awards. He flips the concept of designing products on its edge, moving from designing for inspiration to designing for outcomes. He…
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If you didn’t see this commentary by LZ Granderson, Why do school sports start before classes do,? on CNN then I strongly suggest reading it. I believe in educating the whole child, so I really don’t have anything against sports in school. In fact, I support the development of a student’s kinesthetic capability. Athletic programs,…
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I want to frame this post through the work of Mark Applebaum as illustrated in his TED Talk, which you can watch below. I do suggest watching it before you read this post and I hope you remain interested enough to come back at some point. Watching Applebaum’s work unfold on stage got me to…
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If you have not had the chance to read the article in Education Week, Common Core Assessment Consortium Ponders Meaning of “College Readiness”, in July 18th edition, I highly recommend it as a piece that shows how absurd the task will be to develop a national assessment that is robust, meaningful, and universal based on…
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