I  am so excited to know that Innovative Voices in Education- Engaging Diverse Communities will be in print very soon. To be sure, contr...

 flickr image via woodleywonderworks ... and the tools we need to travel them. Wyle E. Coyote knew that kits could help him catch t...

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in whi...

flickr phot via mac.rj I'm not fond of the term "21st Century learning." It has become a wildly referred to catchphras...

 flickr photo via -Marlith- Another stimulating Twitter conversation had the Nemeticists comparing and contrasting the social dyanmics of ...

flickr photo via akaalias "Seems to me if folks understand that EdUkare is about health and security and resilient communities, ...

  Children arrive at school expecting to learn. Teachers arrive at school expecting to teach. Parents, for the most part, trust that thi...

 flickr photo via aeu044117 A great question arrived in the #edukare stream a while back from Chad Sansing ( @chadsansing )... "...

flickr photo by Tom Hilton Earlier this month I attended the annual Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI) Conference. T...

 flickr photo via Takanori Ishikawa When I shop for new stuff I have a tendency to look for unique qualities in whatever I'm sho...

Education reform is a hot topic. The media is all over it. So many stories, editorials, features, columns and documentaries revolve aroun...

Recently the "tone" of my blog was called into question. Before this I can say with absolute honesty that I had given precisely z...

It takes courage to truly think differently. It's our natural human tendency to want to belong to a group; we're social beings a...

I don't believe in the flashpoint approach to change in education. I don't think it works in the long-run and it typically creat...

I'm admittedly torn about the assessment thing... I'm left wondering whether opposition to perpetual reform of how teachers asse...

flickr CC image via yonolatengo It sounds a little strange to say that learning would be anything other than authentic. To assert othe...

flickr CC image via Wildebeast1 I hear teacher-types speaking about education reform a lot, and this is good, however it seems to me t...

flickr CC image via timparkinson I'm blown away by the volume of Twitter posts addressing the issue of testing in education. An...

  There is a sort of natural selection process inherent in a paradigm shift. At the brink of change, people need to see for themselves th...

flickr CC image via Ivan Walsh.com "Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right d...