Learning Curve

Three days from now, my local school board will vote on a proposal to close my neighborhood elementary school. The vote follows 14 weeks...

A few months ago, I wrote about a visit to The Avalon School in St. Paul, Minnesota. Avalon is a small, teacher-powered school that has...

Feeling powerless is frustrating and stressful, William Stixrud and Ned Johnson write in their book, The Self-Driven Child: The Science...

Last week my wise and compassionate colleague Sara authored a blog post about what educators can do to create positive and respectful...

If you’re a teacher or administrator, I want you to take a moment and think back to the last interaction you had with a student’s family...

Education is political. We live in a country where decisions about curriculum, testing, and graduation requirements aren’t solely in the...

I love going on school visits. As a teacher, I was never able to leave my classroom to see someone else’s more than once or twice in a...

Talking to members of Francis W. Parker’s Class of 2019 has been a love of mine since 2013, when they entered the school as 7th graders,...

Sara and I have been thinking a lot about what students are able to do and under what conditions. We’ve been talking with innovative...