I hope you have had a chance to view the wonderfully creative animated video, “The Testing Camera,” from Peter H. Reynolds. It is a “must see” for every parent and educator. As Reynolds shares in his preface: “This is my gift to educators to remind them to follow their instincts and remember why they got […]

Earlier this week Iowa-based education blogger, Scott McLeod (dangerously!irrelevant) threw out the following challenge via the interwebs: Please join us. When it comes to education, what are 5 things that we have to stop pretending? Post on your blog, tag 5 others, and share using the #makeschooldifferent hashtag. Feel free to also put the URL of your post in […]

Imagine yourself as the head coach of a high school football team. For months, you work with your young athletes to develop their individual skills and teamwork. You believe in your players and spend considerable time getting to know and understand each child on your team. You constantly look for ways to help your players by […]

By miller727@icloud.com April 14, 2015 Uncategorized 10 Comments “WHAT is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can’t even fit in the building!” – Derek Zoolander, former male model, 2001. The dim-witted Derek Zoolander knew very little about public education but even […]

Anyone who has served as test administrator for a paper and pencil Oklahoma Core Curriculum Test (OCCT) in the past few years is familiar with this warning: “Only the student taking the test is permitted to break the seal” on the test booklet. This procedure has been in place for the past few years to […]

Dr. Paul Thomas of Furman University publishes one of the more thoughtful and well-written blogs I read on a regular basis. He accurately refers to his blog writings as a “Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness.” I think we can all agree there is always enough room for a little more kindness in our world […]

What Will the Governor do about “Janet’s Board?” By miller727@icloud.com March 27, 2015 Uncategorized 6 Comments In case you missed it, there was a bit of a kerfuffle at today’s State Board of Education Meeting. Here is the story as reported earlier tonight by Tulsa World Education Writer, Andrea Eger: Conflict between board of education […]

This week’s Blogger challenge: If you were “King or Queen for a day,” what would you do to improve #oklaed (<600 words). This will be fun! — Rob Miller (@edgeblogger) March 23, 2015 My fellow bloggers-in-arms were much quicker out of the gate with their responses to the challenge thrown down during last Sunday’s #oklaed […]