This is arguably one of the best articles I read in 2019, perhaps the best in a long time: Why Feedback Rarely Does What It’s Meant To (HBR) Every person I know needs to hear what these authors are saying: the way we evaluate others (this article addresses an employer […]
*taps* Hello? Hellooooo? Is this thing on? (You never know with time travel equipment.) Ok. I’ve got a chance to send some advice back to my younger self, and I think it’s worth the risks. If I poof out of existence because I tangled the timelines…well, I guess this post […]
We teach who we are. Teaching isn’t as much about the what as it is about the who – who you are as a teacher is communicated more thoroughly than any ‘content’ in the lesson plan. Source: Letter to a Young High School Teacher | Comment Magazine This is a […]
As an exercise to wrap up the training this week, I’m supposed to draft my personal mission statement / elevator speech explanation of why I mentor at WGU. I’m an educator. It’s what I do. It’s what I am. When I was a kid, I used to pretend sometimes that […]
This is a small plug for a site where I and a few friends chip away at the ideas behind “teaching redemptively” — applying the Gospel to the structures of education, not just the words used in the classroom or censoring textbooks or any number of surface-level attempts at biblical worldview […]
