Dealing with Difficult and/or Resistant Staff

Every faculty has difficult and/or resistant people. I think that most supervisors would agree that dealing with them is the most challenging aspect of their job. Being a difficult person is a personality trait. Difficult people come in several varieties. They are often whiners, judgmental, opinionated, and negative. Resistant…

White people can take for granted that there are models of successful adults to watch and learn from. They grew up looking to presidents, military leaders, movie stars and characters in literature and in all sorts of positions of leadership including in education were of white models. They learned their exceptionality was by ethnicity or religion.They are told stories about names being changed as they came through Ellis Island or lived through the first Catholic president controversy.…

Main revelation (in linked article) is that Sight-words (also known as Whole Language, etc.) is more destructive of boys than of girls. Could you guess why?



Boys by large are confident and cocky. They can climb up on a roof and then jump off the roof. But what if you put something in front of them, an obstacle, that keeps them from ever climbing up on the roof. They will be frustrated and…

Everything You Wanted To Know About The Adolescent Brain But Were Afraid To Ask

March 7, 2018 by Larry Ferlazzo 

Best Article Ever To Have Students Read About Cellphones!

March 22, 2018 by Larry Ferlazzo 

The use of Twitter to share news and to congratulate individuals or teams, or to remind of meetings or events has become a part of many educational leaders' work of the day. Many, if not most students and parents are 'on' Twitter. It has become a favored way to communicate quickly and briefly. At first a vehicle for young people to speak to each other in brief terms, it has been swept up by adults and businesses. Its use was welcomed and used for good. The use of social media helped school…

SEO is search engine optimisation. Using this technique, a website's ranking in search engines (such as Google) can be improved.

I noticed there are very few businesses aware of SEO. So, I thought being an SEO professional, I should write an article making users aware of SEO.

I started working as an SEO consultant for SEO Brisbane around 2 years back. I learnt most of the SEO online and then gained…

What students in poverty really need from educators

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Sarah McKibben

Our Difference is Our Strength

Amy Andersen, NBCTFebruary 6, 2018

Everyone should know the Berys Dixon story....Schoolteacher does what she’s told until one day she realizes she’s been lying to her parents. The method she was teaching does not work. She does her own research, finds her own answers, and for the first time helps most of her children to read.

This woman is so down-to-earth, so straightforward, so honest (I think we can assume) that even a professor of…