100 Best Video Sites for Educators

Providing multimedia into the classroom is a powerful way to engage and inspire students in the classroom. By supplementing lessons, and exploring new interests and passions, online videos make for  tremendous teaching tools.

Why American Students Can't Write

A great article in the most recent edition of The Atlantic that explores the ideas about how to best infuse our schools and communities with a culture of writing. This issue has always been near and dear to my heart ever since I began a member of the National Writing Project which believes that the best way to make our students better writers is for our teachers to become better writers themselves.

Project Based Learning Resource for You!

Check out this resource for building your classroom into one in which projects thrive and students come alive!

Maybe Algebra is Necessary

In response to Andrew Hacker's Op-Ed in this summer's New York Times entitled, "Is Algebra Really Necessary?" Patrick Honer has his own response worth reading where he shares, real-world and relevant applications of Algebra which even the most staunch opponent to Algebra 1 can begin to shake one's head in agreement.

10 Rules of Writing

Ever wonder what it takes to become a great writer? The New York Times has produced a wonderful column on writing, providing suggestions, insights and links to past articles and resources to ensure that your students are becoming effective and engaging writers.

Too Many Students, Too Few Teachers

In a recent story from Detroit, a senior attending Mumford High School on the cities west side has made news claiming that he has not received any text books or teachers for that matter going into his third week of school. How would you fix such a problem and how does such a problem arise? According to the school, administrators were not prepared to deal with the large numbers of students who have enrolled in the school. The other part of the story may have to do with the management of the school by the Education Achievement Authority who has taken over Mumford and other so-called low-performing schools by the state of Michigan. What would this school look like if textbooks and teachers were not required and an innovative way of teaching and learning were adopted? Does this prove even more that schools are outdated and unprepared to support students for the 21st Century or is this simply a mis-management of resources by an organization? Whichever side you are on there are reasons to believe that many students are not being properly educated in the city of Detroit which will often make more headlines than those who are.