by Whitney | Jan 27, 2014 | education, explanations
This past weekend at Educon 2.6, Kevin Jarrett and I hosted a session entitled “How Unions Can help Foster Education Reform”. This was prompted by a question I have had for a long time, which is whether the public view of unions aligns teachers more with...
by Whitney | Nov 25, 2013 | community, education, Uncategorized
UPDATE: Goldiblox has written an open letter and taken the video down. I’m actually sort of sorry about that, because it was a STEM great video, and even more, has started a real and serious conversation about girls and science, engineering and math. The...
by Whitney | Nov 20, 2013 | business, education
I was reading a great blog post over on Edutopia about writing a Student’s User Guide. The title was a bit dull, but on reading it, a teacher talks about developing a “personal User’s Guide” not only for herself, but having each of her students...
by Whitney | Nov 4, 2013 | education
I’m really excited to be part of the group facilitators over at Edutopia. This week. we’re having an interesting discussion about cross-curricular project based learning which, in my mind, is about trying to get teachers in different subject areas to...
by Whitney | Sep 8, 2013 | education
This morning, I read a New York Times opinion piece called “The Great Stagnation of American Education” by Robert Gordon. My first thoughts were that it contained a lot of useful information about how important education is for long term earning...
by Whitney | Sep 4, 2013 | blogging, education, friends, happiness, parenting, personal
Watching my kids navigate the waters of high school, and now watching the first one acclimate to college, I realize how much of our lives trades not only in monetary currency, but how much of it depends on the cultural currency you carry. For kids, we easily lump this...
