I don’t mean your kids’ teacher, or your colleagues, although I’m sure that would be most appreciated. I mean one of yours. Whether we graduated 5 or 45 years ago, I imagine almost everyone who works in education has at least one teacher, coach, counselor, or some similar adult to…
PA HB 363: If You Can’t Beat ’em, Ban ’em!
Folks were all a-Twitter today about the newly-proposed legislation in Pennsylvania, PA House Bill 363. My colleagues & fellow Pennsyltuckians Dan Callahan and Jimbo Lamb have already written about the implications of this bill, but the SparkNotes version is that the bill mandates that cellular telephones and portable electronic devices…
No Doctor in This House
It’s been a long-term goal of mine to earn a doctoral degree. Until relatively recently, I thought that would be in education, but my grad school experience studying school psychology opened up another research interest for me. As I was winding down my Ed.S. program over the last year or…
Spank You Very Much!
I originally wrote this blog post for parenting blog This Mommy Gig; it appeared on August 26th, 2008. I have edited it slightly for inclusion on my blog. Last week, CNN.com reported that over 200,000 children in the US were spanked at school in the 2006-2007 school year. As I…
T3: Cutting Up in the Classroom
Rebecca Bell over at Notes from the School Psychologist recently started a blog carnival called Teaching Tips Tuesdays (or T3). This is my contribution to this week’s edition (but linked to last week’s T3, since there isn’t one up for this week yet), and will be cross-posted to/linked from her…