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...

This week, two of the Einstein Fellows, Jess Hexsel and Carla Neely, taught us how to code a Micro:bit. Basically a small circuit board...

It's a new year and I feel it's time to reflect on 2022 which was crazy and so full of emotion. In January of 2022 I was recovering...

I wasn’t planning on posting a new blog this week, but then Southwest Airlines completely self-destructed and the parallels to education...

I've been doing a lot of reading on the success of K-12 education in Finland. It's an amazing story of how the Finnish people...

I think there is consensus nationwide from the national level all the way down to the local level that we have a big job ahead of us to...

For the past few years, there's been a tradition for Einstein Fellows. I have no idea when or how it started, but I got my piece of that...

We've got some really big problems right now in K-12 education; standardized test scores in reading and math are way down, students and...

I've spent the last couple of months thinking about my career as an educator. I often get asked, "What's Next?". It's a legitimate...

I can't say when it started, but I grew to LOVE greeting my students at the door before each class with either a "GOOD MORNING!" (before...

This week, I had the opportunity to attend a Washington Post Live event entitled "Diversity in STEM". Panelists like Sandra Cauffman,...

The National Assessment for Educational Progress released it's full report this week about the academic losses in reading and math for...

I am not a farmer, but this concept of a silo applies to so many things in education. A silo is a tall, solitary building usually used...

Every student and every teacher will tell you how incredibly hard these past couple of years have been. COVID has wreaked havoc on our...

There was a time in my life when I knew what I was good at. Being a cheerleader in high school was my identity was good at it. I was...