15 for ’15
Here are 15 things you can try out in your classroom in 2015: 1) Start a classroom Twitter or Instagram feed: Many of your students (especially in the older grades) and/or students’ parents have their own accounts, so why not…
4 Ways to Make Tutoring More Fun
Why do kids need tutoring? Some are behind on content and they need to be caught up. Others already understand the material and need to be pushed more. And then there are always students who need specific work on individual…
What Great Schools Look Like
It’s funny, this week I have had three separate conversations with administrators all revolving around the same topic: what does a great school look like? It’s a good question, especially when you consider that there are many types of schools,…
Homework! We’re talkin’ ’bout homework!
An ode to one of my favorite sports rants of all time, Allen Iverson, as he proclaimed, “Practice! We’re talkin’ ’bout practice!” I wanted to talk about an often dreaded, always opinionated topic in the world of education: homework. Over…
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…
