Category: Learnings

Here’s another Best of the Best – from June 7, 2022. Oh, and my good friend has never followed through on his debate challenge, but I stand ready. A dear friend just retired from a central office position in a traditional suburban school district. He used to buy me beers at happy hour during my…

Here is a Best of the Best from February 1, 2024: In 2009, Simon Sinek delivered a TED talk titled “How Great Leaders Inspire Action.” Today, nearly 64 million people have viewed Sinek’s talk. Let’s take a look at what Sinek had to say about leadership and see how it might be applied to creating…

Here’s an ABPTL  post from August 15, 2022 – one of the “Best of the Best.” A few weeks ago, I participated in an online conference hosted by The Smithsonian, their National Education Summit. It was two days of deep, exploratory learning for both young and adult learners. When I reviewed some of the session…

Here’s an ABPTL post from August 2, 2022. Enjoy a “Best of the Best.” Before I rode across Iowa on a bike last week, I had a chance to read an interesting article in EducationWeek. Written by Jeff Frank, an associate education professor at St. Lawrence University, the title of the article was “Want to…

Most adult educators are losing their minds these days because they can’t figure out a way to test their young learners’ knowledge without risking those young learners using artificial intelligence to either aid in providing the answer or providing the answer in total. Walt Hunter, a professor of English at Case Western Reserve University and…

“What happens when an entire community begins to see itself as responsible for the education of young people? What happens when local businesses, nonprofits, artists, scientists, leaders, neighbors aren’t just occasional visitors and trip hosts, but they really become coeducators? The future of education is not about making schools better. It’s about inviting the village…

Iowa is in the public education news lately. The Daily Wire reported earlier this month that, “…Iowa led the nation with the first Workforce Pell Grant program in the country approved by the U.S. Department of Education. According to a press release from the Department, it is ‘a major milestone in expanding faster, more affordable…

Back on July 28, 2026, ABPTL wrote this about Mike Miles, the current state-appointed school superintendent for the Houston Independent School District: “ABPTL has been hard on Mike Miles, the state-appointed superintendent assigned to lead the Houston Independent School District back in 2023. But now, based on new test data, it seems like Miles’s reforms,…

Traditional school people tend to look down on summer camp education. Most think that camp is nothing more than something kids do to pass the time until “real” school begins in late summer. My experience with summer camps and other out of school learning opportunities suggests that young learners benefit greatly from these non-formal experiences,…

“This summer, the Texas State Board of Education approved a new required-reading list for public schools, mandating what the state’s 5.4 million students will read in every grade from kindergarten to 12th. …What made the Texas list controversial is the inclusion not of a new book, but of a very old one: the Bible. Students…