Turning the Page

After a well-deserved holiday break, teachers will turn their attention in January to new lesson units and students who also will begin to seem new in many ways as the year advances. In some schools, this is called “turning the page.”

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First Days of School — President Obama to Talk to Our Students

By now you may have heard that President Obama will be addressing our students nationwide on September 8th at 1 p.m. EST. It should be exciting and inspiring!

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A Developmental Memory

Recently I received a pleasant, unexpected email from a retired teacher in New York State who had read a blog entry here and wrote to reminisce with me about work we had shared in the mid-1980s

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