I want to discuss an article my friend Robert tweeted about yesterday. Student shaming: Check. Only way to teach is lecture: Check. Only thing missing here is a laptop ban. https://t.co/Ciz97126RK — Robert Talbert (@RobertTalbert) December 8, 2017 This paragraph in particular: First and foremost: From kindergarten on, students spend thousands of hours studying subjects irrelevant…
My thoughts in this blog post are incomplete, as I am still trying to figure out how to articulate what I am feeling about teaching in our current climate. I finished reading both Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and James Baldwin’s  The Fire Next Time this week. Thinking about the implications for the future of education and for our country…
I went to see Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in the theater the summer before I started ninth grade. We had just moved to Maryland Heights, MO, and I would be attending school at Parkway North High School in Crève Coeur in a few weeks. I didn’t know anyone. I remember feeling scared and stressed. How…
If you are interested in reading my first post at the Faculty Room, “a cooperative blog presented by Big Ideas and published by Authentic Education,” it was posted today: “Born With a Desire.” Please read it and let me know what you think in the comments.
