A friend who used to sit on the State Board of Education in Ohio shared an article on Facebook.com a few years ago as was published on Public Education Partners.  Check it out at https://publiceducationpartners.org/2016/06/07/five-reasons-education-system-part-class-war/ It would be easy to categorize this article in light of the controversies which have been the focus of broadcast…

Every year, our high schools pay homage to the graduating seniors.  I think every valedictorian includes the line, “Graduation isn’t the end; it’s just the beginning of the next step of our journey,” in the their perfunctory speech at the graduation ceremony. It’s been uttered at the four high school graduations I was privileged to…

Perhaps your 25-26 school year is already underway. Perhaps you’re preparing to welcome students back to the classroom. Either way, it’s an incredibly busy time of the year, with lots to do. And I’ll bet your “Do” list is getting longer and longer. It might be so long that you have several “Do” lists, or…

The title of this article was originally going to be titled, “Administrators, New Teachers Care, But May Not Understand; New Teachers, Administrators Understand, But Probably Don’t Care.”  It’s then that I realized a couple of things: There are only two elements in play, and, for any successful system to function properly, there needs to be…

If you’re in leadership at a school today, this article is meant for you. When it comes to teachers, it’s been said that even though teachers complete a rigorous curriculum which defines such things as learning styles, multiple intelligences, learning domains, along with preparing pre-assessments, lesson plans which are aligned with curricular standards, and assessments…

Edu-cat-ion.blog (which is now accessible by logging on to edu-cat-ion.com) is built on one of the most popular platforms for Web site creation: WordPress.  There’s a good chance that your school may be using WordPress as well, since more and more companies and organizations are choosing it because of its easy-to-use interface.  It was, after…

To be clear, this doesn’t mean that there should be prayer in public schools.  Actually, if the local community wants prayer to be present “in” the public school, it should be allowed…but that’s another topic for another article. Regardless of prayer being permitted or not permitted in the school, the school and its students should…

One of my earliest childhood memories was snuggling up to mom on the couch on Sunday mornings and she would read the comics to me.  It didn’t matter that I may not have understood the humor the cartoonist was presenting, because mom would explain what was going on in the pictures.  I still remember bringing…

You may think the title of this article has the word “teaching” spelled incorrectly.  That assumption would be incorrect.  “Teching” was a termed coined in the early video game era, but some folks started to use it regarding the increasing utilization of technology. Today, most children “tech” for enjoyment…alright, young adults do too (and perhaps,…

When I was a teacher, all ten of us – one teacher for each home room (K-8), and yours truly who taught 7th and 8th grade science and health, 8th grade algebra, and instrumental music – had recess duty once a week every other week.  Kids played.  It was not structured.  It was not attuned…