Our Souls
“These are the times that try men’s souls.” Thomas Paine “Excuse me! Why did you antagonize my dogs?” I had… more »
The Heart of the Matter
The Celtic peoples…insisted that only the poets could be teachers. Why? I think it is because knowledge that is not… more »
Start with School
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel… more »
Close up, it matters
Education as the Practice of Freedom (bel hooks) I walk the hallways of schools and feel the urgency of young… more »
Restoration
What if after President Obama made his statement about too much testing, there were more statements following about the harm caused by… more »
The Real High Stakes Test
Every day now I wonder what I would do for children if they were taken down by police in front… more »
Questions after Spring Valley
I would imagine that anyone of us who works in school buildings has these questions somewhere in our minds and… more »
Don’t quit please
Musing on Day 361 of my challenge to myself to write something of encouragement to stay in the field every… more »
Misnamed ‘political correctness?’
Who decided to call being aware, empathetic, respectful is merely political and correct? By calling it ‘political correctness,’ we diminish… more »
Where do you go?
When you have to pause to cry or scream or vent or just breathe in silence so that you don’t do… more »
Teacher Memes
Great quotes w/ pictures–painfully funny. Enough for one every school day for 12 weeks–to get you through January or… more »
Walk this Way
“Our own life has to be our message.” ― Thích Nhất Hạnh, The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to… more »
When the phone rings
Thich Nhat Hanh the Vietnamese Zen Monk urges us to find ways to breathe in silence even for a second throughout… more »