“We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility, and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children’s future.”
– Robert F. Kennedy
Blink Fast and Keep on Moving - Blink Too Slow and See What Happens
Brilliant in Chess - Missed Out on the Rest?
I Try to Clean My House During the Week - Here is Why
If You Sat at This Teacher’s Desk for Parent Teacher Conferences, Might You Be Concerned?
Harder to Find Teachers: We Gotta Be Better! Enthusiasm and Positivity vs. Usual Crap
Committees, District, and School Leaders Help Make This Environment a Reality
Pre-Escalation is Not a Word - But Learn About it and Practice it Anyways
These Five Concepts are Like Oil on the Engine of Education - Adaptable to Life, Too
The Paddle Was Outlawed in Massachusetts in 1971 and in New York Not Until 1985!
I Can’t Imagine that Schools Were Welcoming Places With This on the Minds of the Children
Does the Achievement Gap in Athletic Terms Make Sense?
So Many Factors Influence the Achievement Gap - One of Which is the Starting Point…In Kindergarten
Let’s Be Invisible and Grab a Time Machine - An Adventure Awaits!
Let’s See What We Can Learn - And Then Celebrate!
Want to Waste Money? Then Don’t Read This - Just Call a $500 Per Hour Author
Or You Can Simply Buy a Copy
A Shootout on Pine Avenue? Quality Programs and Training in Schools Keeps Kids Safe Now - Might Even Save Lives Later
These Things are Pretty Sharp - Planning and Training in Schools is of the Utmost Importance
Is it Live, or is it Memorex? Social Media and AI - We Gotta Stay Human!
Unexpectedly and Unsolicited - My Friend Chris Raised Some Important Points About Social Media and AI - Take a Look!
What is Step 1 in Developing a Model for Your Toughest Kids? Commit to Making it About Them
How Would You Feel if You Saw This in Your Child’s Classroom?
8 Years Old - Whipped with an Extension Cord by His Mom
I Found This Image on Google - It Most Closely Resembles What I Saw in My Classroom 25 Years Ago
We Improve Ourselves and Our Schools One Little Thing at a Time
This Post Focuses on the Development of a Specialized Program at the Taft Early Learning Center
Can I Connect the Book, The Alchemist, with Trauma Informed Educational Practices?
This Book Just Made My Top 10
Want to Know What Plastic Man and Our Brains Have in Common?
It is Neuroplasticity that Allows Us the Opportunity to Turn Times of High Stress and Crisis into Times of Growth and Learning - Let’s Get Started!
Fact: Behavior Reflects Needs - To Understand the Behavior of our Kids, We Need Only to Look at Ourselves
What Happens in the Classroom: A Deeper Understanding of the Behavior of Children Who Have Experienced Trauma
If Childhood Trauma Disrupts Us Later in Life, Imagine What it is Doing to Kids and Learning in Real Time
Installment 2 on This Topic: Nadine Burke Harris Tells it Like it is - Every Educator and Parent Should Know This
Not Every Trauma Comes with a Bandage, Cast, or Crutches - Unseen Injuries that Alter Lives
This is the First in a Series of Posts on a Sensitive Topic: The Effects of Trauma and a Program that Makes a Difference for All Children and Staff in Schools
Turn the Ringers Up: I Asked That They Text During This Speech – Spreading Kindness and Hope with Our Phones
Thousand of Texts Sent During this Address
GPE: Gratitude, Praise, and Encouragement - The Way Our Technology and Social Media Should be Used
Take a look at the texts I received from my son yesterday during my address to the Class of 2023 - We need more of this in our world!