Archive for January, 2013

It’s the end of January. Do you know where your new year’s resolutions are? Maybe all’s well and you’re still eating healthy, exercising regularly, you […]

By: Rita Platt The “Flipped Classroom” is all the rage these days. Educational journals, blogs, and chat rooms, are flooded with the concept of “flipping.” […]

The psychology of persuasion has always fascinated me–probably because I stink at it. When I was in college, I worked for a while as a […]

There is a movement to teach children to read at a younger age and it may help to incorporate short periods of intentional training every day in the area of rhyming in order to move along the continuum of learning in a reasonable, developmentally appropriate manner. The focus and goal of this action research project was to increase students’ understanding and use of rhyming words as a pre-literacy skill.

Schadenfreude: pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. This post is perhaps a week late, but it took me that long to process some of […]

So, I’ve got this amazing new idea for a business model.  It’s going to be big!  And you, loyal reader, are completely welcome to get […]

Tom Sawyer looked at the 810 square feet of Aunt Polly’s fence he had been assigned to whitewash and, “Life to him seemed hollow, and […]