The design of the course asked students for their input, their opinions, and their reflections upon reading articles and viewing films that allowed them to move past the stereotypes and deal directly with the issues of intolerance, violence, and double standards applied to one particular group of American citizens. Just…
The Ick Factor, Part I
Hot on the heels of The Teachable Moment comes another collection of short stories by educators, One Size Does Not Fit All: Diversity in the Classroom. My offering for this collection draws upon my experience co-teaching a high school (junior & senior-level) course called Multicultural Studies, in which we examined…
Alleviating Shakes-fear, Part II
When my young charges entered the room that day, they saw five red balloons stuck to the whiteboard with tape. Each balloon had taped to it an 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper with one of the following phrases printed on it in 100-point font: Shakespeare wrote intellectual “high…
Alleviating Shakes-fear, Part I
I’m proud to announce that this month, my first short story was published by Kaplan Publishing in an anthology entitled The Teachable Moment: Seizing the Instants When Children Learn. The book was compiled and edited by fellow school psychologist/blogger Dr. Rebecca Branstetter, and is available at finer online and offline…
Not For Sale
Before about 20 minutes ago, I’d never heard of Kevin O’Keefe. My introduction to him came via this blog post, which came up when I Googled an excerpt from an email I received earlier this week. Based solely on that one blogpost, the only evaluation of Mr. O’Keefe I can…