First Day Activity Idea
It’s been a while since I have had a chance to write a blog post, primarily due to the consumption of my life with the release of my book. [insert shameless plug for Inside the Trenches, out now on Amazon.com]…
11 Amazing Things at the Ron Clark Academy
As many of you know, I will be leaving RCA at the end of this year. Due to the extensive travel that the job involved, I was not able to spend as much time as I would have liked to…
My Super Wife
My wife, Jaclyn, is a superhero. The kind of superhero who wakes up before the birds to a toddler who doesn’t realize that 5:00am is not a real time … the kind of superhero who gets herself and our son…
What if I were still teaching in NC ….
I recently had a discussion with a friend who teaches in North Carolina and the salary crisis that the state faces. North Carolina has dropped to almost the bottom of the country in teacher salary, and Raleigh does not appear…
Year One: Inside the Trenches
It has been one year since I began this unique and eye-opening role as the School Implementation Specialist for The Ron Clark Academy. I frequently get asked by co-workers, teachers, and friends, “What do you see?” This post is dedicated…
Kids Are Kids
I am a lucky guy. I get to combine two things that I love and call it my job. Travel and education, two things that do not always go together, have become my life. As I write this I am…
Authentic Learning: It Can Be Done
The final slide for all of my workshops has the same ending: “What CAN you do?” I put this because “we can’t do this in public school” or “my kids could never do this” is too cliche to put onto…
Reflection on Newton, CT
I was in Atlanta on Friday, December 14th when the tragedy in Newtown, CT happened. That morning I was at Lenox Mall with the 7th grade doing a math project (more about that on the next blog post), but when…
Majority Rules
Now that I am wrapping up my first semester traveling to schools, observing classrooms, working with teachers, and conducting workshops, I am beginning to reflect on a question that I get asked quite frequently these days: “What do you see…
Real World: Turkey
Merhaba! Greetings from Turkey! For the past five days I have had the pleasure to spend time with nine wonderful Ron Clark Academy students and my partner in crime and co-advisor, Gina Coss, as we watch our students participate in…
