Sublime

Has your ability to make sensible ‘guesstimates’ of the kind of answer you are looking for got better or worse? These are the effects of technology, and it is with these that education has, presumably, to be concerned. As teachers, we cannot know what tools will be available to our students throughout their lifetimes. So we have to think about the

When a student is struggling to meet educational goals, those supporting that individual should question the design of the instruction, not the abilities of the individual.

twenty pages in length during the entire year.

Race to Nowhere: The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture (dir. Vicki Abeles, 2011) is a documentary and a movement in schools working to fight, using my own words, non-Essentialism in school. They are working to reduce the imposition of unnecessary homework and stress on children. See their website, www.racetonowhere.com/.

As the son and grandson of a trio of teachers, I wondered how often my parents and bubbie had to help a student exit an emotional spiral.

but they created an atmosphere of trust, not judgment. It was, “I’m going to teach you,” not “I’m going to judge your talent.”