“Can the Teaching Profession be Trusted?” (Randy Hitz, Phi Delta Kappan, June 2008).   When I read this title, my first thought was of course the teaching profession can be trusted! When I went to my first Gifted/Talented certification trainin ...[Read More]

The Teaching Profession? pt. 1 The excitement at Franklin Junior High School was palpable. The new technology that offices had been using for years had finally arrived. Teachers looked forward to using the new photocopier to make copies of tests an ...[Read More]

Kathy’s Blog Most of us have a general, if not specific, idea of where technology and learning are going. We also have a vague feeling of “eating the dust” of the younger generation as they speed ahead of us into the future. If you doubted that, ...[Read More]

There has been a lot of talk about change recently. Of course, we see the presidential candidates (especially the Democrats) calling for change, but sometimes it seems to me that people are calling for change everywhere, including money. Did we re ...[Read More]