EducationHabits of Mind The Power of the Pen the pen is mightier than the sword... Whenever anyone asked me what I wanted to…@msflaxmanMarch 4, 2018
Education Down the Rabbit Hole When I started teaching in 1997, Alice referred to one thing -- Lewis Carroll's character…@msflaxmanFebruary 17, 2018
Education Gifts that Keep Giving Mitchel Resnick's book, Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers and Play, argues that a mistake schools…@msflaxmanDecember 28, 2017
Education What We Need in Order to Read Daniel Willingham, author of Why Don't Students Like School? and Raising Kids Who Read, says that Americans…@msflaxmanDecember 17, 2017
Education Jar of Thanks Yesterday, amid a steady stream of work including proofreading report cards, meeting with parents and…@msflaxmanDecember 9, 2017
EducationHabits of Mind Hard Facts This week, hard facts were everywhere. Look to the left, find sorrow in the aftermath…@msflaxmanOctober 11, 2017
EducationParenting Raising and Caring for our Little Adults I loved Julie Lythcott-Haines' How to Raise an Adult and had the good fortune to hear her…@msflaxmanSeptember 3, 2017
Education Rules of Engagement We can't deny that kids on the playground will sometimes get into stuff. They might…@msflaxmanAugust 16, 2017
Education It’s Not What — It’s How This week, I had the chance to read about the philosophical underpinnings of the Responsive…@msflaxmanAugust 4, 2017