Metanoia

Poem Buried in a Box

I found myself digging through a box from my days in the classroom and stumbled upon a framed poem that I always kept next to my desk. I don’t know why it never made its way from the classroom to my office, but I’m glad I found it as it is a daily reminder to self-reflect.

The Man in the Mirror

When you get all you want and you struggle for self,
and the world makes you king for

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Summer of Reading and Learning

I admit it. I’ve fallen into the trap of reading the business-minded books that seem to be quite the rage amongst many educators in the blogosphere. I’ve read the one talking about being flat and left or right handed/brained/footed/something, a couple with -nomics tied in quite nicely, and quite a lot about swells, networks, connections, ones, 2.0s, and everything else that makes me think of buzzword bingo (and yes, someone could easily play that game at my expense).

While all of …

Some Policies Simply Suck

While passing a few minutes in Barnes & Noble awaiting the pharmacy to fill my wife’s order, I was pleasantly surprise to see a 2nd grade class holding various performances based upon what they have read this year.

So, I sat down and watched some great performances. Next to me, there were a number of anxious high schoolers. In speaking with them, they were about to watch a few students perform something they had written and they were fumbling with …

Lessig and a New Age of Prohibition

I had an opportunity to watch Larry Lessig’s TED Presentation How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law and I was truly energized by his passion and knowledge about the “revival of the read/write culture”.

However, Lessig raises a critical issue …