What Are You Reading?
As I write these words, Arizona officially is number 1 in the nation for the spread of COVID-19. Cases are…
Unfinished Business
For months I knew what the topic of my May blog would be. When I left my school for spring…
Learning Environment (Emphasis on “Learning”)
Today, after a short PD session introducing an upcoming focus for our faculty, I was once again bothered. Rather, I…
Raising Digital Citizens
The layers of irony in the 1998 film You’ve Got Mail are numerous, but most overt is that the hit-you-over-the-head…
Controlled Chaos
I did a Google search for “Teaching is…” and the first four auto-filled responses were a work of heart, a…
Can I Still Teach?
This past summer, I joined one of my community’s Rotary Clubs. For years I had gone to Rotary as a…
“ELL” Doesn’t Say it All
Did you know that the majority of English learners in U.S. K-12 schools are not immigrants? From outside of the…
#FirstDays Beyond the Four-Hour Block
We were asked to introduce ourselves in our blogs this week, and that feels funny, since this is the sixth…
Arizona SB1318 and Dyslexia Policy
SB 1318, a bill which expands requirements for identifying students with dyslexia and training teachers to help them, has been…
The Gifts they Bring: English Learners and Gifted Ed.
A few weeks back I was chatting with a gifted education specialist in our district, an excellent teacher my son…
