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I was in a second grade classroom this week observing one of my elementary education majors in her room. The cooperating teacher was leading the morning work review of two digit addition. In what seemed as natural to us as…
PART I One of the more frequent questions I have been asked since transitioning from the K-12 world to the college world is “How have you changed my teaching?” The answer is simple: I haven’t. I still pride myself on…
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…
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…
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]…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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