Career Readiness for the Real World: How Your Career Can Help Students With Theirs
Ed here. Wow, it’s been chilly lately! With all this snow and the heating bills climbing, my mind wanders to [...]
Professional Book Studies: A Continuing Education Alternative
During a recent visit to the Northwest Educational Service District 189 (NWESD), I was invited to attend a professional book [...]
The Science Materials Team & NGSS
Just this week I wandered into the Mt. Baker Room at the Northwest Educational Service District to find 18 kindergarten [...]
March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
While visiting a seventh-grade classroom earlier this week, I was impressed with the dialogue among table groups collaborating on an [...]
School Safety
Turning on the evening news these days can make anyone feel anxious, and if you have kids it can [...]
Reading to Write
While pondering the direction of this blog post, I realized that Ed Jr., my son, loves to read, but Emma, [...]
Digital Citizenship and Smartphones in the Classroom
I received a call from Ed Jr. while on my way to work today. “Dad, my cell phone is acting [...]
Extracurricular Activities: One of the Best School Investments
I just received a text from Ed Jr. “Hey Dad, I’m going to stay afterschool for cross-country try outs. Can [...]
Interrupting the “School-to-Prison” Pipeline
Culturally speaking, our approach to juvenile misbehavior has been changing for nearly two decades. Juvenile courts began adopting new tactics [...]
Equity in Education For All
As I visited schools in our region and listened to educators plan instruction for student learning, I heard many conversations [...]