iTeach and iLearn

I've had two very different conversations in the past few weeks with two different colleagues, both of which relate to working with stud...

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 ...

This past week I had the privilege of presenting at the Heartland Christian Teachers' Convention. It's a group of some 500+ teachers...

My friend and colleague in education, Erik Ellefsen, recently started a podcast, and he asked if I would be a guest. It took a little time f...

Hey there, teacher... That assignment you gave your students today...how much time will it take your students to complete? I suspect you...

Dear former middle school students (and their parents), It's high time that I try to make things right with you all. There are quite a...

This one popped up on Instagram for me this morning. Got me thinking, of course... [Screenshot of my phone this morning...] You really...

Oh. Man. My twitterfriends Matt Miller and Alice Keeler recently published a book called Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Make...

So. It's time to have a difficult conversation, teacher friends. Here goes... We have to think about what students are doi...

My friend, Erik Ellefsen, always has good stuff for me to think about. (If you are an educator, you should really follow him on Twitter .) T...

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

Today I had two different friends share this same video on Facebook. It is a video comparing homework assigned in Finland and homework in th...

A certain middle schooler I know, somewhat disgruntled about doing his homework some time ago, snapped this picture and texted it to me: ...

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. ...

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 ...

Please forgive me for using "crappy" in the title of this post if that language offends you. But I decided to start things off thi...

Ah...homework. Staple of childhood today... Image by apdk [CC BY 2.0] I'm thinking about homework in K-12 education again. I've...

Parents, when your kids come home from school and unload their backpacks, what do you find? Creative, thoughtful, individualized projects? ...