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There is a good chance that within the past 72 hours you have seen or heard about Ron Clark and a handful of the Ron Clark Academy students breaking the internet with their #DoItLikeMeChallenge dance. It’s been covered by CNN,…
Yet again, we have a national tragedy on our hands, one that many are calling a terrorist act, which I will not argue against. This time at a historic black church in Charleston, SC. By now, you have heard the…
I had the pleasure of returning to my old stomping ground, the Ron Clark Academy, this past week to help with the National Educators’ Conference. Almost 500 educators from around the world came together to take part in the magic,…
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…
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…
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…
I survived my first blogging experience, and I’ll be honest, I’ve found it somewhat meditating to write out what’s swirling around in my head. Now I know how my students feel in Ms. Barnes’ class! Over the past couple of…
For the past month and a half I have been privileged to be able to combine two things I love: traveling and teaching. As a part of my job as the School Implementation Specialist for The Ron Clark Academy, I…
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