Science teacher

A day an hour shorter makes for a longer week...  "...[T]he shift to Daylight Saving Time (DST) results in a dramatic increase ...

Wheat grown on our classroom windowsill. Right now you are making water, the real stuff, not some abstraction, from the oxygen you brea...

We're still up to our butts in snow here, with more coming, but today I plant the first seeds of the summer. Peppers take their ...

 This originally was written in January, 2009--nothing has changed. Got a little help from Clay Burrell, too. Prince Arne declared him...

I used to play a little hockey. I was never really good at it, but I was decent at defense for two reasons: I was quick (which is not the...

M.C. Escher Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and Arne Duncan will pose in spandex as Edumacation Superheroes, spouting off aphorisms for the ages...

Education, ironically, suspends itself in a web of easily falsifiable myths. There's a reason folks selling snake oil flock around scho...

I have been reading Herman Melville and it's August--s o, yeah, this needs editing.... Sir Ken Robinson is a superstar in the...

As I sink deeper into the morass of words that pretends to advance science in the name of economic security (which is like asking a flower t...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is lo...

"The College Board was founded with a deep commitment to equity and must play a critical role in helping all students achieve high a...

We have never worked harder and have never enjoyed work more, because, with rare exceptions, the work was significant, self-directed, cons...

The arts are an important part of a well-rounded education for all students. All of the arts – dance, music, theatre [sic] , and the visu...

  Suppose you had a child who had sustained a moderate head injury in a car accident, how would you assess her her first few months back?...

There's seems to be some confusion about my role. I am, of course, an agent of the government, of the public, of my town. I am a scien...

A scorpion, being a very poor swimmer, asked a turtle to carry him on his back across a river. "Are you mad?" exclaimed the turt...

  If we could teach science by shoving a funnel up a child's nose then pour in "knowledge" as a slurry of data, vocabulary...

I've ridden motorcycles on and off (always better on than off) for over thirty years. While a few things are annoying--bugs in the teeth...

 Tomorrow I am going on an adventure! Despite predictions of a 30 knot breeze with rain tossed in, I plan to grab my rake and wa...