12 Exciting Spy Books for Kids
Who doesn’t love thrilling adventures with spies? Check out these spy books for kids — there’s a good chance you’ll find LOTS of great book ideas...
21 Beautiful New Picture Books, August 2024
August is a time of transition as kids head back to school and we anticipate the fall season. This August’s new picture books feel like… The...
Remembering Emergency Remote Learning (April 2020)
Were you teaching during the COVID-19 lock downs in April and May 2020? My wife and I were. This week a colleague asked me to find...
Dehumunization is Wrong
Dehumanizing other human beings: Denying the essential humanity of other people, is ethically wrong and immoral at a basic level. It is also dangerous, because people...
Middle Grade Author Interview with James Ponti
To celebrate James Ponti’s newest middle grade book series, The Sherlock Society, I interviewed him about the book, writing, reading, and more! The post Middle Grade...
Remembering TxTIP in Floydada and Post, Texas (2004-05)
Once upon a time in the late 1990s, there was a teacher in Lubbock, Texas, who had a dream. He dreamed that all the students in...
Oral History Workshops (July 2024)
I’m sharing a 2 part, free oral history workshop series for the Mint Hill Historical Society this coming Saturday, July 13 and the next Saturday, July 20. These...
Plants in Space
These are my notes from the SPACE 2024 presentation, “Planting Other Worlds” by Melissa Sleeper and Lisa Dupuy. The session description is: Tired of the same...
Host an Astronomy Night
These are my notes from the SPACE 2024 presentation, “How to Host an Astronomy Night: Astronomy in Elementary and Middle School Classrooms” by Peter Tlusty (Mr....
Communists and Conspiracies
One thing that has surprised and even confused me in recent months has been the assertion that our U.S. schools and mainstream, progressive political parties /...
