iTeach and iLearn

A friend of mine is studying to become a teacher. (But she's not one of my students.) :-) She reached out to me recently, asking a que...

In a recent post I shared about a presentation I gave at a recent teachers' convention held on our campus. The title of my session was ...

It is amazing and fascinating (and a little troubling) for me to see how people continue to react to the Common Core State Standards. The de...

It's the beginning of the semester, and I'm already struggling. Oh, I'm doing all right; I know my content, and I'm reasonab...

I have been thinking and thinking about homework over the past few months--why teachers give it (many reasons), whether it truly advances le...

I had never heard of the book before today, but in an email hawking textbooks, I saw one title that caught my eye: Worksheets Don't Grow...

It's been a while since I've blogged, and it's because I've been working on my comprehensive exams for the past few weeks. ...

Image by Alan Levine [CC BY 2.0] After my last post , I tweeted a series of questions, challenging teachers (I suppose) to try asking ...

I've been on a tear lately against " crappy homework ." I've written before about how I think  homework assigned to "...

I assigned a lot of bad homework over the years. Looking back to the beginning of my teaching career, I'm embarrassed about the kind o...

In a recent post , I shared some of the research that has been done about homework and it's effectiveness (or lack thereof) for helping ...

Oh. My. Word. I have some fantastic students--future teachers--and they often impress and amaze me. But every once in a while, one of my s...

Yesterday I posted a bit about good pedagogy, and technology, and navigating change in today's educational environment . My friend Ed re...