Tag: teaching
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Owning Your Story
I recently asked middle school students, “If you were writing your own life story, how likely is it that you would be the main character?” I told the students that I thought it should be 100 percent likely. Some students disagreed. “It can’t always be about you,” one student said. During another session, a student…
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The surprising Power of Unbiased Observation
At a March 14th event at the Invitation Bookshop, in Gig Harbor, I shared my inspiration for The Uncommon AP Club. The attendees and my conversation reminded me of this essay that I wrote almost two decades ago, titled, “50 Things”: “It’s Grab Bag Poetry day,” I announced to my sophomore English students. My announcement was…
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Tracking in Schools Inevitable
Origins of my Educator’s Edge: When I was a sophomore at a Department of Defense high school in Germany, I struggled with geometry. My brain hadn’t fully developed to make abstraction and spatial reasoning easy. Plus, I’d had a lousy experience with an algebra teacher who’d repeatedly made fun of my name. Let’s just say,…
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