WL Teaching Tips

Years ago, a former colleague told me about French classrooms having student “delegates”. Essentially, they were elected classroom leaders that helped the teachers and other students with various tasks. Genius! While it’s a modern trend to assign classroom jobs to every kid, that feels like too much to me: too much to set up, too […]

If I got hurt as a kid, I could guarantee one of these responses from my dad: “Here’s a quarter. Go call someone who cares.”“I think we oughtta shoot ya.”“It’s two feet from your heart. You’ll live. As an adult, my best friend, a therapist, was appalled to learn this. How could anyone say that