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Building A Better Student: These Kids These Days

At one point, you were the youngest person on Earth. That’s kind of wild, isn’t it? So it’s funny when we realize how much we sound like our parents – or our grandparents – if we utter something like, “Well, these kids these days . . .”...

Building A Better Student: Leveraging Curiosity

We’re all curious about different things. You may be fascinated by the way colors combine to create unique shades, while I might gaze for twenty minutes at the way ants go about their business, crawling in and out of their colony. Who’s to say what grabs our...

Old vs New: An Infographic about Common Core

Having taught in various settings for more than 20 years now, I’ve seen education trends come and go. Anyone remember Outcomes Based Education in the late 90’s? Yea. That’s pretty much gone. There has been a lot of bad press generated by the Common...