Tag: teachers

Another college basketball season has started. Our oldest son played the sport for the University of Houston from 2014 to 2018. Kelvin Sampson was his coach. I was thinking about Coach Sampson the other evening as I was watching his Cougars defeat one more challenger in the young season. I was thinking about Coach Sampson’s…

I’m a big advocate for parent involvement and empowerment when it comes to their children’s learning plan. I learned early on, as a school principal, that parents usually knew best when it came to what was in the best interest of their child. With that stated, Moms for Liberty, pretending to be a parent involvement…

Here’s your News Roundup. Alaska Leads States in First-Ever Rankings of Charter Performance on NAEP (The 74) This week The 74 online reported that, “In an unusual, first-of-its-kind ranking of 35 states and the District of Columbia, charter schools in Alaska turned in the highest scores in reading and math, with students there learning the…

What if all learning depended on the field trip? You remember field trips. Those glorious events where you were able to escape from your mundane classroom and experience the world. I didn’t get to go on a lot of them, but when I was part of a field trip, learning was engaging, exciting, and fun.…

Kids can’t help where they’re born. One youngster starts kindergarten (hopefully pre-K) in an elementary that feeds into a high-performing middle school and high school, while another, sometimes in a house across the street, is destined to go to low-performing schools throughout the K-12 career. Just like individual schools differ in their effectiveness, school districts…

Parents who are unhappy with their public school’s performance can take the following actions to provide a better learning experience for their children: Recently, Education Reimagined shared an interview with Olena Starchuk and Mike Russell, two Canadian parents who have chosen to build their children’s learning plans outside of traditional public school. Both parents have…

Most of us focus on how vouchers will help public school parents pay for private school, but there’s another option out there in the learning stratosphere – microschools. Why shouldn’t a single mom with three children have the option to send her kids to a well-run microschool instead of the traditional private? Last week, The…

America’s public school system has a problem with listening to student voice. Most schools form student input groups, like student councils, class officers, and other student-led organizations, but don’t really listen to what those groups have to say about what they are learning, how they are learning, and what should be done when they aren’t…