It's Like Herding Cats

Tuesday evening, I spent a couple hours of my life meeting and greeting with some of the forgotten 1% of America. It was open house a...

Well, it's been a long day and I'm about to head to bed, but I wanted to journal some of what I experienced today. - Never under...

It was a "sixth sense" moment.  We were working through some tougher work yesterday. Math isn't easy for some of the ...

The weeks have flown by at Mary Esther Elementary. I've learned an awful lot about teaching that textbooks will never deliver. ...

Our friend Allan. For the last three weeks, I've been a bivocational pastor. Full time third grade teacher (long term substitute) ...

I can spot them in a crowded playground. I can pick their voices out in a noisy lunchroom. I'm already hating the thought of leavi...

It was glorious. Transcendent. Heavenly. 15 children were, for a moment, released to soar. For two weeks they had struggled, fight...

Our class was too focused on what we could not do and needed to focus instead on what they could do. So I decided that we needed to have a...

It's hard to put into words what the opening week of my sojourn as a public school teacher brought to my mind and my heart. But here g...

They came, they saw, they conquered. 15 incredibly wee little souls came into the classroom and trusted me to help them move forward. ...

Tonight I'm going to enjoy a meal with my family and then get to work preparing for tomorrow's first day of school. The school dis...