Month: January 2018

 Photocredit: Roger Neubecker for slate.com I think it’s time I come clean. It’s about time we talk about the lie that schools have perpetuated since their inception. Last weekend we were asked to think about the “why” behind our action plan. More specifically we used the Five Why’s thinking tool, meant to uncover the baseline … Continue reading “Dear Students. We lied.”

I’ve been wrestling with motivation lately. In my last blog post , I began to frame my reflections about motivation in the classroom with five important questions. Though motivation has been central to my action plan, I realized it was necessary for me to exactly define what I meant by motivation. Was I envisioning a classroom of high-achieving, … Continue reading “A Patchwork Quilt Action Plan”