I was listening to a Malcom Gladwell podcast called “Revisionist History.”  In season 5, there is a short episode entitled, “Hamlet was...

Every elementary classroom teacher will always use a computer keyboarding program to train their children to learn to touch type. Why?  ...

Over the course of my life, I have engaged in deep thought about engineering, economic and educational processes; yet analytical thinking...

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...

Although I am ‘officially’ retired, I continue to regularly watch the televised local school board meetings.  The experience can be both...

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

There is a companion white paper to this blog that includes an executive summary. An interested educator may find that short...

On the way back from Iowa last month – after visiting my elderly parents – my wife and I drove to Texas through Oklahoma via IH-35 south....

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

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...

If there is one assumed professional trait in public education, it is ‘expertise.’ Now, it is rarely spouted from within the teacher...

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...

On July 20th, 1969, mankind demonstrated the ability to place men on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. This space journey is...

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

Organizing large groups of people to efficiently complete any complex human task is challenging. In antiquity, for example, the Giza...

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...