I’ve written about this notion before – the idea that time IS the currency of education.  The more time we have, the more we can learn, and in most cases, we never feel as though we have enough time to teach and learn all we want*. But, Seth Godin’s post this morning, along with the [...]

Ben’s open house was last night.  It was surprisingly emotional for me.  Ben is entering the Cooperative Middle School, the same school where I spent 10 important years of my professional life.  It’s also the first year CMS will operate without it’s long time Principal, and close personal friend of mine, Tom O’Malley, who moved [...]

As I drove to work one day a few years back I read the following on the billboard of a local drug store: Sweatshirts $5 or 3 for $10 And then as I remembered that the middle school in my district still required every 8th grade student to make a sweatshirt, I thought: Why are [...]