As the summer draws to an end, students & staff across the nation are transitioning back into the classroom. School supplies, new book-bags, shoes, and clothes have all been purchased in preparation for a great academic year. Summer projects and reading logs have been completed and ready for submission. As our students are tucked in that final night of summer break, many parents are faced with suppressed thoughts and concerns for the safety of…
There was a young boy born in the mid 1800’s that attended school right alongside the students in his neighborhood. He ate what they ate, played where they played, and probably enjoyed some of the same things that they did as well. He did not however excel in his academics in school like them. His very own teacher stated that he was “too stupid to learn anything”, and that led to him…
Close your eyes and imagine working. That is not too difficult correct? Now imagine yourself working in a mine over 2,000 feet below the surface of the Earth in a mine below Chile’s Atacama Desert! That was the exact location of 33 men, when on August 5th, 2010, the century year old mine collapsed. A single 770,000-ton block of rock “twice the weight of the Empire State Building” collapsed…
On February 24th, 1970 Jackson Five knocked the Beatles’ “Let It Be” off the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with their single “ABC.” The well-known chorus was simple and began with the phrase “A-B-C, easy as 1-2-3.” When it comes to safety, hazards have always been present, however we no longer live in the -70’s. Students seem to be exposed to a lot more…
“Transparency” was the unofficial theme in my classroom, especially towards the last few years of my instruction. I shared things that were appropriate and relative from my personal life with my students and I believe that it made me that much more real in my students’ eyes. I remember being in school years ago as a student and viewing my teachers…
