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Schools and Culture: The Wearing Down of Teacher, Part B
Summary: Last post I reacted to news that 46% of teachers leave the profession in their first five years, and suggested some of the reason has to do with ills in the culture, ills that create students too little connected … Continue reading
At Risk Students: Technology and Improving Student Performance
Summary: Can a new generation of online instruction free teachers to work more closely with at risk students? Some tech types paradoxically champion technology as one key to unlock more resources for education in troubled economic times. Highly qualified individuals … Continue reading
Schools and Bureaucracy: Reflections on Survival and Other Personal Idiosyncrasies: Part C
Summary: Being the last installment of a series of reflections on long term survival in the belly of the educational beast.….. Despite the relentless bureaucratic monolith, pockets of encouragement and support for individual vision occur, which have helped my longevity. … Continue reading
Schools and Bureaucracy: Reflections on Survival and Other Personal Indiosyncrasies — Part B
Summary: Continuing reflections on survival during a career in schools. Another benefit of working in schools snuck up on me, and was particularly accentuated by a growing love of mountaineering and the birth of my children. School vacations are rather … Continue reading
Schools and Bureaucracy: Reflections on Survival and Other Personal Idiosyncrasies (Part A)
To summarize, the topic of the moment, derived from my just previous post, is a reflection on my survival over years of career in high school without escape, first as an English teacher, then as a counselor. How have I … Continue reading
Schools and Culture: Hope in Small Things
The heavy and long days of winter have descended in this Northern climate, and so too does the school year begin to lose the freshness of the new fall school year, and begin the long slog through winter darkness toward … Continue reading
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