Tasty Bites for Teachers' Minds

Kind greetings, snackers! Sincere thanks for clicking and reading. Seriously...what's going on ? Given all of our hard work around differentiation, why are we still using this insidious binary: Good. Bad. REALLY?!!! Unfortunately, I still hear these words used by students and adults to describe behavior and achievement. Which is interesting , given how quickly we can rattle off a copious list of valid reasons for why people who do things way less important than education do

"It's not easy. But it's simple." -Eric Thomas Here it is, snackers! The number one reason why we struggle in front of our classrooms every day. I imagine that each of you has had the experience of giving directions to a student one-on-one. They start to walk away, seeming to "get it", only to turn back and say, "Wait. What are we supposed to be doing again?"  We often hear , but many things can get in the way  of understanding. EDUCATION WEEK reports that 1 in 5 of student

“We all live in the world our questions create.” ― Warren Berger, author of A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas Greetings, persevering snackers! On the final day of the last school year, I noticed a small whiteboard on a stand near the exit to our middle school. Judging by the lack of whitespace, it was clear that every single rising high schooler had taken time to write a parting message. We don't need journal citations to know that