Passionate Discourse

All people need to be involved in passionate discourse every once and a while. This gets the heart pumping, the blood moving, oxygen flowing and the brain functioning at higher levels. Shouldn’t students be involved in this type of activity? In recent months the oil...

Academic Dialogue

Academic Dialogue isn’t the teacher asking questions and then calling on students one at a time.  Students need to publically communicate their ideas and work to help each other as well as respond to the teacher. Creating a community of learners is the key to rigorous...