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...

The end of the year is fast approaching (as is my maternity leave, which will likely start just a couple of days into 2020), and I’m...

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

A few months ago, I issued myself a cooking challenge: I set out to create my very own recipe and bake my son’s second birthday cake. ...

By sheer numbers, New Year’s resolutions are doomed. U.S. News & World Report shares that 80% of goals fail during February (they look...

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...