Radio Interview: Inside Education with Sid Glassner
If you missed my radio interview on Inside Education with Sid Glassner, here is the link: Inside Education: Author Introduces the “Uncommon Core”
View ArticleJoshua Katz’s TEDx Talk: Toxic Culture of Education
Joshua Katz describes perfectly the plight of American education, the damage it does to our lower achieving students, and the super villains behind it all. “We need to pay attention to our students and...
View ArticleSid Glassner’s Inside Education with Pauline Hawkins
Click on the link below to get to the discussion segments. Bullying and How It Can Be Addressed For information on inviting Pauline Hawkins to your school for student assemblies or teacher workshops on...
View ArticleTop 12 Global Teacher Blogger Discussion: July 2016
What are the important skills, behaviors, and attitudes that students need to become contributing global citizens? These skills, behaviors, and attitudes are so important that I wrote a book about...
View ArticleTop 12 Global Teacher Blogger Discussion: August 2016
How do you help students accept and work well with people of different beliefs, cultures, languages, socio-economic statuses, education backgrounds, and learning styles? Acceptance and respect are...
View ArticleUncle Phil Radio Show Nov 11, 2016
I had the pleasure of talking about my book on the Uncle Phil Show on Friday. It’s a bit long, but a great hour-long discussion with Phil and Marshall. We had some deep conversations about education,...
View ArticleGuest Blogger: Letter to Millennials
As a college writing teacher, I have the pleasure of helping my students discover their writing voice and their passions in life. Every once and a while I will read an essay that I need to post on my...
View Article“Volunteering” by guest blogger Felicia Thomas
As a college writing teacher, I have the pleasure of helping my students discover their writing voice and their passions in life. Every once and a while I will read an essay that I need to post on my...
View ArticleThe Top 12 Global Teacher Blogger Discussion: March 2017
What roles do teachers have in creating kind and compassionate citizens? Teaching is about investing in our future. Teachers need to do more than teach content. We are so much more than knowledge...
View ArticleMay Discussion with Global Teacher Bloggers: What do teachers most want to...
What do teachers most want to tell parents? “Effective parenting refers to carrying out the responsibilities of raising and relating to children in such a manner that the child is well prepared to...
View ArticleUncommon Core: book review by Karyn McWhirter
“Uncommon Core: 25 Ways to Help Your Child Succeed In a Cookie Cutter Educational System is a down to earth guide to helping young people develop the life skills they need for success in school, the...
View ArticleUncommon Core: Book Review by Dennis McCarthy
In Uncommon Core: 25 Ways to Help Your Child Succeed in a Cookie Cutter Educational System, Pauline Hawkins shares stories from her 11 years of experiences as a high school English teacher to help...
View ArticleTop 12 Global Teacher Blogger Discussion: July
What are several real ways you have seen bullying reduced? The only way to reduce bullying is for parents and teachers to take an active role in teaching and role modeling respect for other people to...
View ArticleTop 12 Global Teacher Blogger Discussion: August
What are the best ways parents can help teachers and that teachers can help parents? Communication and honesty are keys to building a positive, healthy relationship between parents and teachers. This...
View ArticleUncommon Core Book Reading: Chapter 19
On August 24, 2015, I read Chapter 19: Teach Them How to Be Happy from Uncommon Core: 25 Ways to Help Your Child Succeed in a Cookie Cutter Educational System at Great Bay Community College in...
View ArticleUncommon Core Book Reading: Chapter 14
On September 10, 2015, I read Chapter 14: Teach Them to Be Problem Solvers from Uncommon Core: 25 Ways to Help Your Child Succeed in a Cookie Cutter Educational System at The RiverRun Bookstore in...
View ArticleKaplan’s “Path to Recess”
Excellent post about what is truly important for success. The “soft skills” Kaplan refers to are the 25 things I wrote about in my book, Uncommon Core. “Reflecting on my experiences teaching both at...
View ArticleQuestions about my Animal Farm Social Experiment
It’s interesting how many teachers email me about a post I wrote six years ago, Animal Farm Lessons. People can read it at HuffPost or in my book Uncommon Core, so it’s easy to find it if they are...
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