The Bored Student Speaks!

My I-Really-Just-Don’t-Care student hands me some of his writing to read.  He’s typed eight single-spaced pages.  I didn’t assign him this project.  He wrote something on his own, and he wants to meet today to talk about writing. He gives me permission to tell you this: It’s a personal memoir about watching his brother leave […]

You, the Expert

I know many experts.  I have friends with cooking expertise, exercise expertise, teaching expertise, spiritual expertise, and parenting expertise. They read, they study, they take classes, they interview others. These folks are wise.  I call them all the time.  Just this morning, my sister, an education expert, talked me through my stress about my daughter’s […]