What an exciting time to be young and on the cusp of adulthood. You have been born into a world full of opportunities and challenges. Over the past year and a half, I have been delving deeply into all...

I was at church yesterday, and a friend asked me if I was still teaching. I told him that in two weeks, I would be starting my 40th year. He looked at me and said, “When are you going to stop?” He the...

The AI ship has sailed. If you send home complex homework assignments, many of your students will most likely use AI to do the work. So what should you do? How can you ensure that students actually le...

Note: this article was first published at the online magazine Educate AI (edu-ai.org)  at https://edu-ai.org/ai-will-stupefy-our-students-unless-we-do-these-six-things/

Artificial Intelligence both t...

Note: This post was first written in conjunction with McGraw Hill Education

As one of the pioneers of the Flipped Learning movement and a leader in the Mastery/Competency-Based educational model, I h...

39 Things I have Learned in my 39 Years in Education

Tomorrow starts year 39 in education. Who would have thought? I will greet new students to my new room tomorrow. As I contemplate meeting my stude...

I was asked yesterday by a teacher how I am still going strong after 38 years in education (30 as a classroom teacher). Her school starts later than mine and she took time to visit one of my classes i...

I'll never forget the moment when I realized that some of my students hadn’t really understood much of anything in my chemistry class. Students had just completed an open-ended experiential lab-based ...

Teaching is fundamentally relational; nothing tells students that they matter more than knowing their names.  When I started teaching in 1986, I was so busy worrying about what I would teach that I ne...