Let's face it, to some people everything is an emergency. A Chinese symbol for crisis is made up of two parts: danger and opportunity…  ...

   by    shorts and longs   I was sitting on my backyard patio recently with Keenan, one of the new teachers who has joined our sta...

flickr image via Scarto In teaching and learning, whether we're jumping off a cliff, or jumping off a curb, the important thing ...

 Empathy Symbol image retrieved from http://www.empathysymbol.com/ This is a guest post by Larry Hartel, my principal at Glendale S...

flickr photo via David Blaine The first thirteen years of my teaching career were spent teaching in what are commonly referred to as a...

A recent tweet in yet another fascinating conversation with the Nemeticists ... Unfolding-a word with such great connotation as applied...

I believe that we never stop learning, despite ourselves. Those who embrace the joy of learning, embrace the joy of life.  flickr phot...

I believe that effective education is about people, always. We must reach people on personal levels to foster relevance in what they learn...

 flickr photo via shanzy 294 When I was in graduate school one of my assignments was to reflect on and create a set of beliefs ab...

Passionate, caring teachers... maybe some of the luster and significance of these adjectives is lost in the broad world of cliche langua...

I came across this awesome Nike ad while attending the Alberta Lacrosse Association Annual General Meeting this fall. Kyle Miller, a worl...

Like me, my wife is a teacher. Tonight she said something that really made me think. She took a transfer to a new school this fall; a school...

flickr CC photo via Bill Brine "Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."  - Ryunosuke Sator Teachers, ...

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein Traditional s...

I had a brief Twitter conversation awhile back with George Couros (@gcouros) about the complex interaction between people and the technolog...

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

With special thanks to Lisa Butler (via Twitter @SrtaLisa) for creating this poster, I'd like to further the thoughts behind the quote....

In my desktop version of the Random House Dictionary, scholarship is defined as, “the qualities, knowledge, or attainments of a scholar...

After reading Andrew Churches' wiki post regarding the characteristics of 21st Century teachers , and while still thinking about a tw...