A Sage Teacher?

On the days that bookended Dr. King’s holiday and the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, my seventh grade students spe...

Dear Students: Once again, you gave me one of those perfect days.  You touched me with your kindness, compassion, and c...

--> In my seventh and eighth grade humanities classes this fall, students are learning about the founding of the United Nations,...

--> "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - ...

In the last month or so, I have been thinking a lot about how our culture in the United States considers the profession of...

It has been a bit of a roller coaster at my school, so I haven’t had much time or heart for blogging.   Time for writing has flown aw...

My seventh and eighth grade students are now studying the years leading up to World War II, and in connection with this topic, they...

Living in the Boston area and teaching middle school means that professional sports are often the student-preferred subject of the day...

“If you are a person of an inner path,             then you are a person of peace, so make peace with yourself and you...

--> In The Courage to Teach , Parker Palmer, wrote, “If we want to grow in our practice, we have two primary places to go: to the ...