by admin | Mar 5, 2014 | Blog
In the previously published blog titled, Teaching Critical Vocabulary, I outlined a simple way of thinking about changing the way teachers traditionally approach vocabulary instruction in all content areas, starting with careful selection of words with which students...
by admin | Dec 14, 2010 | Blog
Are you concentrating as you read this? Are you sure? Will you pause in your reading and click on the hyperlink a few lines down…and then perhaps forget to come back to this blog post? A recent article in the New York Times (“Growing Up Digital: Wired...
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | Blog
This steady and undissipated attention to one object, is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation, are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind. –Lord Chesterfield, in a letter to his son (c. 1740s) I recently purchased...
by admin | Jun 18, 2010 | Blog
In my post Why Support the Arts? I noted six points summarized from an article “Willingham: Six Practical Reasons Why Arts Education is Not a Mere Luxury” (Washington Post, November 23, 2009) by cognitive scientist Dan Willingham. Development psychologist Jerry...
by admin | Jun 4, 2010 | Blog
In my last post Why Support the Arts? I noted six points summarized from an article “Willingham: Six Practical Reasons Why Arts Education is Not a Mere Luxury” (Washington Post, November 23, 2009) by cognitive scientist Dan Willingham. Developmental psychologist...