Five Lessons For Starting A Super School Year
Helping students become independent doesn’t mean asking them to do everything on their own. Using lessons from Iron Man, Hermione, Batman, Multiple Man, and Spider-Man, this post explores five practical ways families can build self-advocacy, executive-function skills, organization, confidence, and healthy balance. The goal isn’t immediate independence—it’s increasing independence, one step at a time.
Curiosity Over Compliance: How Getting Kids on Their First Frontier Can Get Us to the Final Frontier
As a kid, I was always thrilled by the opening sequence of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Patrick Stewart’s deep, paternal voice would tell us that space was “the final frontier,” while the orchestra swelled against a cosmic background full of wonder, mystery,...
Value Your Values- A Story of Personal Fault and Integrity
There is a distinct difference between having a belief and having a value. Values, in my opinion, are Platonic Forms from which a more concrete idea that we believe in might take root in a practical world. A value has a deep and meaningful impact behind the scenes,...
When School Feels Like An Endless Marathon
For many students, school is like those old Hanna-Barbera cartoons during a chase—the doors keep speeding by in endless hallways that never change. This unrelenting, endless marathon has them moving quickly from task to task but leaves no opportunity to pause,...
Investment In The Next Generation Of Teachers
At the onset of every school year, a familiar sequence unfolds—often faster than the leaves can change color. Back-to-school catalogs now arrive in June, well before summer vacation has begun. Teachers have their recurring stress dreams: classrooms without chairs,...
The Once And Future Dream- Dr. King’s Dream In 2026 Schools
Every January, as the long weekend dedicated to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. approaches, classrooms across the country pivot to show his famous "I Have A Dream" speech and limit his work and life to those four words and the bus boycott. Many students don't have a...
Make Krypton Fiction Again- The Case for Science Education
“We have arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science.” Carl Sagan In 2025's movie reboot of Superman, Writer/Director James Gunn decided to skip...
Everything I Love About Reading I Learned From Comic Books
My mother told me as a kid “I don’t care if you’re reading trashy romance novels, just so long as you’re reading” and it a message I took to heart both in my life as a reader and also as a teacher and parent. As it turns out, I was not reading trashy romance novels....
Investing In The Capital Of Civilization- Approaches That Make Learning Better K-12
Through this unconscious education the individual gradually comes to share in the intellectual and moral resources which humanity has succeeded in getting together. He becomes an inheritor of the funded capital of civilization. -John Dewey Note: For the unit...
Rededicating This Site- The High Stakes Of Education Today
“Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge.”— Simon Sinek It is a turbulent time for the field of education in The United States...then again, education might always be in turbulent times. Today, across the country school...
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