Resources and articles to aid parents in finding wisdom along the parenting journey.
I was reading a lengthy article a couple of days ago by a lady named Jean Twenge. The article centered around making correlations between Iphone releases and various adolescent trends. Twenge was able to find numerous links between social trends of adolescent Iphone users and social issues that are facing Read more…
As I have been considering what I see in the classroom in the morning, one thing is abundantly clear to me…We start school too early for these kids. Our first bell rings at 7:35 am. Unfortunately, we are one of the 18,000 school districts who open their doors for education Read more…
Any professional educator is aware that the internet has changed just about everything when considering the delivery of knowledge. We use the internet almost without pause for one thing or another throughout the day as means to engage and communicate with our students. We have incorporated digital literacy into curricula Read more…
There has been quite a “new” movement in education of late. The movement is toward teaching grit and determination in the classroom. I suppose in the usual approach to public education; we will need norms and rubrics and curriculum in order to make sure our students are successfully learning grit Read more…
Isn’t it peculiar how most of us resist change? I am as guilty as anyone I suppose. We get a little set in our ways and forget that the world around us requires us to be flexible and change with it. The old ways of doing things are gone with Read more…