Stop doing the two most destructive things now common:

1. Avoid all the psychosocial innovations, such as SEL, CRT, and many more. These things do not give children the foundational knowledge they need. These things are essentially propaganda.

2) When basic knowledge is taught, it's rendered useless by incoherent sequencing and dull…

‘What Do I Get If I Do It?’ The Cost of Rewards

Using Inquiry to Support Deeper Learning

Yes, Field Trips Are Worth the Effort

Episode 41 explains that the decline in American education started with John Dewey. He wanted children to be rearranged, transformed, and socially engineered. He didn't want them to know all that much. So, the guy universally called the father of American education, is actually the number one saboteur of American education. Dewey's ghost roams our classrooms.

News One:…

“We Have Essentially Turned a Blind Eye to Our Own Children for Decades”

Judith Warner, The Washington Post 

“The pandemic hasn’t created a children’s mental health crisis out of nowhere; rather, it’s shone a spotlight on a catastrophe that has been hiding in plain sight for a very long time.”

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The point of going to school is to learn the basic information you need to thrive in life. A lot of this is very simple stuff. Easy for children to learn, if anyone would bother to teach them. I argue that knowledge is priority one. See Episode 39.

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Kids can't seem to learn math. The teachers don't seem to know math. National scores continue to fall. What exactly is the problem?

Can you handle the truth? Clearly, the Education Establishment does not want success in math. So they sabotage it at every opportunity.

New Math, 1964, seems to me to prove this assertion, as explained in…

Kids can't seem to learn math. The teachers don't seem to know math. National scores continue to fall. What exactly is the problem?

Can you handle the truth? Clearly, the Education Establishment does not want success in math. So they sabotage it at every opportunity.

New Math, 1964, seems to me to prove this assertion, as explained in…

Connecting With Students Through Strategic Sharing

Starting a new job is an opportunity to re-invent yourself. It can be a chance to leave whatever baggage you might have had behind you and get a fresh start. Aside from doing the obvious like making a good first impression by introducing yourself to the various stakeholder groups, coming up to speed on what is going on, and doing a “listening tour”, which all are certainly good things to do, you need to consider the following:

• Be visible and…