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  • Am I a Bank now?I set up my first bank account with Wells Fargo when I arrived for college in Colorado during the fall in 2001. It was in the local Safeway branch…
  • From Mastery to InquiryI have often considered Mastery to be the thing to which all students should strive. I have thought of it as the pinnacle of achievement in any…LearningThinking
  • Parents vs. Teachers?I am not entirely sure when it happened, but at some point in the last 50 years, teachers became “Other.” They became people who come from outside…Learning
  • Fascism isn’t cool… for long.Teenagers are a construct that has propelled popular culture forward for 100 years. But, prior to the end of the first World War, they mostly…humanity
  • Asking ForgivenessI ran across an incredibly insightful tweet this week, one that I could not ignore or get out of my head since I saw it: A1: Forgiveness is not a…Growth
  • Why I left Public Education (and then came back).In November of 2010, I became the first ever Online Community Manager for Edmodo. I was the 13th employee at a startup that was barely two years…GrowthLearning
  • What Happens When Middle Schoolers Read Maus?I was introduced to the graphic novel, Maus (I and II), in my second year of teaching. I took over an existing Gifted and Talented program from a…Classroom Resources
  • For the KidsCOVID and Vaccination politics are making for some very strange communication coming from my children’s school district, Littleton Public Schools.…Learning
  • Victorian and Regency ViewingThe Victorian era (and the Regency era that preceded) is fascinating to me. It was a time of great change, and of great reckoning for entrenched…Inspiration
  • Making promises with promisesIn the beginning of the (current) pandemic, Kara and I decided to fundamentally change our living room. We decided to put away “the play room,” an…InspirationLearning