Two years in the making. I started this book two years ago, after doing some guest lecturing at Queen’s University. I had things to say and I kept running out of time. Then, conveniently, my son was playing in a summer basketball team that practiced in another city so I couldn’t go home between dropping […]
I am starting a PhD this year and have made it a goal to read one academic article each day. Mostly I fail at this goal but – it is good to have a goal. Even failure to read one a day but getting to it some days could be considered a success… more on […]
There are few assignments more predictably included in high school curriculum and few that strike more fear into the hearts of our neurodiverse students than the Research Assignment. Really, I don’t know if “fear” is the right word; perhaps resignation is better. The sense that “I am always asked to do this, rarely supported in […]
This semester I am teaching a learning skills course with a small group of learners who have very diverse reading levels. I would like to expose them to complex ideas around learning and mindset but I have to make sure that the text is accessible for all my readers. I did some investigation and practice […]
It’s done! I have uploaded my Masters Thesis. If you are curious you have three ways to check it out. I completed in a 3-minute thesis competition. I have youtubed it here if you have a short attention span/time. I also recorded a Grad Chat which is a 30-min summary – posted as a podcast […]
The 2022-2023 school year is about to begin. Actually not the most unsettling start up I’ve ever had – but then I have purposely put myself in lots of unsettling situations. That said, as I start my 21st year in teaching it doesn’t feel normal either. Maybe that’s okay, maybe “back to normal” isn’t what […]
You are better than Duolingo. I got this card from one of my Spanish students this year along with some end of year cookies. Perhaps the most honest and timely teacher gift I have ever received. Given the chaos of the last three years, this felt like the perfect way to close a “pandemic” chapter […]
I was going through old pictures this morning to delete ones and I deleted this picture, then I undeleted it. It doesn’t look like much because it is a screen shot from a digitization of an old VCR tape. Holy pixel degradation Batman! However, this picture is a record (fuzzy as it is) of one […]
If you have a student with a learning disability or ADHD in your classroom it is likely that you have seen the suggestion for “chunking” on their accommodations list. Today I am going to talk about what chunking is and why it works for learning. Chunking is a perfect example of a strategy that is […]
Enrichment is not just something you to with just the “smart” kids. For this post I’ll make a special shout-out for Eric Jensen who wrote this book: Enriching the Brain. He starts his book with the thesis: “the human brain is a dynamic and changing organ – and the way we teach, parent, or run […]
