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...

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...

There are four (4) primary ways humans of all ages learn selected skills or applications – thinking (metacognition) , talking, writing ,...

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...

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...

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...

The famous American political phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid” is attributed to James Carville and coined during Bill Clinton's...

Small Gaps Widen to Larger Chasms While hiking the 500-mile-long El Camino in Spain a couple of summers ago, a small pain ensued on the...