by Brandon | Aug 31, 2026 | Leadership, Teaching and Learning
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.
by Brandon | Jun 11, 2026 | Teaching and Learning
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,...
by Brandon | Jan 26, 2026 | Teaching and Learning
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,...
by Brandon | Jan 8, 2026 | Teaching and Learning
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...
