“When adults seek to learn about and from children, the challenge is to take the closely familiar and to render it strange.” Barrie Thorn...

Dolls and Blocks and Dress Up Closets and Action Figures are for play. Desks and Pens and Books and Paper are for work. Sitting at a desk...

All boys’ high schools, which I have worked for as a teacher, administrator and consultant, are simple to understand and, at the same tim...

The argument goes something like this… The preponderance of female teachers in schools, particularly at the elementary school level, may ...

Boys used to wear dresses. In the 19th century, it was fairly common for young boys to be brought up wearing girls’ clothing until about ...

Shakespeare makes many references to life as a type of play. The author imagines that we are all really on a stage performing our roles g...

If you are a student educated in the United States, it is impossible not to be triggered by the phrase, “the War of 1812”. Yes, of course...

Jessie is wicked fast. She’s so fast, that when she’s standing still she still looks like she’s moving. For months, the third grade reces...

There is a dirty little lie that teachers tell and it is a complicated one. “I don’t play favorites in my classroom. All of my students a...

**Guest Blogger: Rachel Collins If you google “self-defense training near me,” or something similar, you’re likely to get relevant result...

As someone who has spent over 25 years hiring faculty and staff for schools, one of my favorite interview questions which I ask candidate...

When we think about violence, it often looks 1) physical 2) taking place between a perpetrator and a victim and 3) worthy of intervention...

“What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal child, if he has c...

As I discussed earlier in a blog post about teaching history, students, because of gender bias, can miss out on critical dimensions of le...

There are no magic wands. Nothing will get tied up in a beautiful bow. It will be imperfect work. Just like anything we attempt to teach ...

Walking into an early childhood classroom can be a comforting experience. Everything looks so...familiar. Not much seems to have changed ...

The common thinking and the go-to argument when we talk about the gadgets and computers and devices which we use all day long is that the...

It is Fall of 1994 and I am in my second year of teaching and being the English department chair of a school with a unique structure and ...

For years as a principal of an early childhood through 8th grade school, the prize was always attempting to hire men into the elementary ...

The comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, has this bit where he talks about the process of putting his children to sleep. He calls it the “Grand Jubi...