Keep Calm and Laugh
One of my favorite sounds is laughter. With all of the complaining, negativity, and hostility in today’s world, laughter truly is one of the most underrated and underused tools we […]
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Friends, Parents, and Students, Lend Me Your Urls
Excuse the pun; I’m teaching Shakespeare this week, both Hamlet and Julius Caesar to the brightest students in the school and several tenth grade repeaters. This is shaping up to be an interesting […]
Hitting the Wall
No matter how seasoned a runner, the term “hitting the wall” brings uneasiness to a runner. Hitting the wall typically refers to the 20 mile mark of a marathon when […]
Character Education
For the next four weeks, I’m fortunate enough to be part of an online class and community of educators devoted to learning more about character education and how to incorporate […]
Cold Temps, Warm Hearts – Part 2
Snowcation (noun) – an unplanned sleepover at school due to being snowed in When one becomes principal of a school in Atlanta, the last thing he would predict as part […]
Resolve to be a Boring Family in 2014
This is the time of year for people to make resolutions – eat right, exercise more, read a certain number of books, make better grades, get more sleep, and while […]
Raising Good Students – The Entitled Generation
Generation Y has been called by the New York Times the “entitled generation.” This is no surprise to the classroom teacher. Almost everyday during “teacher lunch” (25 minutes of choking […]
Teach with Class 