**By Bill Davidson Guest Blogger “I’m going to project two problems that I’d like you to solve on a piece of scrap paper,” I said, standing in front of a bla...

When I started working for the first time as an educational leader in a school with an elementary level program, I realized quickly that setting up and deco...

Students want you to know who they are as individuals and they desperately want to seamlessly meld into the crowd, unnoticed and left alone. This development...

Potentially the greatest challenge in education is how do you understand the mind of someone who is learning something for the first time, something that you...

Everyone is a giddy fan of someone.  Some people have Arianna Grande or Bono, some have Venus Williams or Lebron James.  Me? I have Barbara Wagner. For year...

Guest Blogger: Alisha Pedowitz I remember exactly when it was that I realized that my brain just isn’t wired for math: 10th grade Algebra 2 with Mrs. Martin....

For three years, Chris, a very thoughtful and committed science teacher, and I conducted an informal experiment during one of the most tense and stressful mo...

On Saturdays, Daphne walks. She does not do it alone. She has a group of friends who get on their working shoes and do their power walk. They do it not on...

Stereotype threat is real. The discussion about stereotyping is a strange one because we often spend an inordinate amount of time talking about the people w...

Here’s what you should talk about when you talk to your daughters about math. 1) Tell them that hard work matters the most. No one is actually hard wired fo...