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A quick Bing search for “classroom teachers respect” turned up 14.5 million hits and adding “parents” to the query still brings in 10.6 million. Parents complain that their students aren’t respected. Teachers complain that they aren’t respected by students or parents. There’s a reason why respect is the first trait on the Honorable Character Chart – it [...]

Last week, one of my coworkers recommended that I look into Wong’s First Days of School. She described the book, because we would like to have a similar guide for using Honorable Character in your classroom (good idea?). One of the things that struck me in Wong’s Classroom Management chapter was the importance of greeting your [...]

I read Ranting Stan’s blog this morning and was fascinated by the points he made about class size. According to this passionate Brit, the solution to effective learning is not to decrease class size. Instead, teachers should be free to discipline their class when necessary. Stan cited as his examples both his own experience growing up (class sizes [...]

I found out about the Children’s Success School via the Slatest, but the original story was posted on the Arizona Daily Star. I can see the value in teaching students to identify healthy food. I agree that the children’s obesity statistics warrant drastic changes (exercise, anyone?). And I’ll concede that it’s reasonable to prevent easy [...]

Kids spend a lot of time with media: cell phones, ipods, computers, TVs, video games, etc. You aren’t surprised. But the Kaiser Family Foundation has the numbers broken down pretty specifically. And their 45-slide presentation is worth your time. I’m just wondering how much attention media gets from students during class?

As far as I can tell, Florida is the first state in the country with landmark legislation aiming to improve state education standards from the top. If Florida’s Senate Bill 6 (SB-6) is signed by Governor Charlie Crist, beginning in 2014, new educators cannot look forward to obtaining tenure, but will instead have to negotiate [...]