This blog is very long, but I hope it is helpful to teachers, administrators and educational advocates. Due to its length, I have also...

Let’s begin our short chat with the reality of the professional world.  When I was in my sixth year of teaching in 2001, my principal...

Professional frustration occurs in every job to varying degrees; however, I have never experienced the same levels of isolated...

Several decades ago, I attended an August meeting with the associate superintendent of elementary schools in a large urban school...

Over the last four decades, I have come to realize that a myriad of qualitative evaluations are processed in real time during job...

In 2011, Senate Bill (SB) 6 was signed into law, and it permitted Texas school district administrators the freedom to choose their own...

My wife and I just finished walking our third ‘El Camino’ in Spain three weeks ago. There are two major walking routes that stretch from...

Numeracy gaps and literacy gaps are the two main academic hurdles in elementary schools, especially Title 1 campuses. Moreover, the...

My mother-in-law has long since retired, but she cleans a small two-story concrete supplier’s office every Friday to supplement her fixed...

Learning - any type of human learning - requires consistent practice and reflection to achieve proficiency at a given task. There must...

The vast majority of states have moved toward digital standardized testing. They have done this for a couple reasons. First, MONEY! It...

I am not a big volleyball fan. But, throughout my life, I played a lot of different sports and activities including volleyball. Last...

Beginning in third grade, every Tuesday night, my mother would load my two brothers and me in the family car and drive us to the city...

I find the title of this blog interesting because as humans – I would hope that when folks perform poorly at some manageable task or...

Due to age and perspective, adults immediately recognize that the mastery of a second language is an incredibly pragmatic and useful...

About twenty-five years ago, I was a passenger in a car returning to Austin. I was part of a three-member structural engineering team on...

After years of visiting Title 1 elementary charters and traditional public schools, I am constantly amazed at the minimal number of...

Awhile back, I attended a national charter school founder’s lecture about his experiences opening new schools across the country. After...

Word fluency will drive comprehension proficiency since the students can read and not deplete their ‘CPU’ trying to decipher the most...

I have heard the expression – Teaching to the Test – for many years, but I had not deeply considered the thinking behind the phrase until...