This week I got to fulfill a dream of touring Pixar Animation Studios. Toy Story, the first fully computer animated movie, was released...

There is no denying this world can be dark, cold and lonely. Succumbing to it leads to anxiety and depression that is often hard to...

For as long as I can remember, every time I looked at the moon I thought about the men that had walked on it. I was born just a few...

Think about a time in your life when you felt excluded...How did it make you feel? I'm not sure there is a more emotionally crushing...

Two things happened in the past week or so that have led me to today's post. Last week, our office (and the nation) found out that my...

Last spring, when I was selected to be an Albert Einstein Distinguished Fellow, my local newspaper, the Fargo Forum, did an article about...

Without another word, every teacher in this country knows what I am talking about. As a teacher, we experience this on a daily basis,...

This week has been very difficult. Last week, I was offered a good job at an excellent school where I admire and respect the school and...

Not a plane, bird or even polar bear - standardized tests. (Oh the horror!) The use of standardized tests really ramped up with No...

...the sand. Or perhaps somewhere else as well. I read a statistic this week that was horrifying: In the US, one-third of 4th graders...

This has been a hard week. Let me explain the backstory. I taught at my previous school for 12 years, building the physics program from...

It seems like an odd question to start with in a blog, but I was twice reminded of the importance of story this week. This past week, the...

That is the crazy number of hours it took for the Education and the Workforce Committee's first markup of this Congressional session. ...

Have you ever wondered how government programs were funded? I will be the first to admit that I was completely clueless before coming to...

Sesame Street started the year I was born, 1969. It was created when Joan Ganz Cooney, a former documentary producer for public...

There is no doubt that our nation is more divided than ever. Every topic seems to have been politicized. Even science, which by its...

A year ago, I found out that I was a semi-finalist for the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow program. There were a lot of...

This week I got to accompany Congressman DeSaulnier to an Education and the Workforce Committee meeting. It was a first for me because...

Education is in trouble. Not a news flash, just the honest truth. We are bleeding teachers at unprecedented rates and we do not have...

Those of you who have seen the musical Hamilton will be amused by the title of my blog this week. Inspired a bit by a concert I was...