Well March Madness has been upon me for several nerve-racking weeks. For you who are not up on college sports, that means being glued to the television into the wee hours of the night day after day watching the NCAA college basketball tournament. As I mourned my beloved Tarhells being knocked out of the tournament [...]
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I was cooling off by the fish pond with a freshly brewed cup of coffee this morning. There is still a pinching nip in the air this pre-spring dawn. A bird somewhere in the branches was singing in a punctuated two-note repetitive group of fives what sounded like “pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty.” As I [...]
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There’s a nip in the air this morning. My budding roses are are rosy-petaled. I guess March hasn’t really decided whether to go out a proverbial baa or roar. That chill, however, isn’t just coming from the weather. Over the past week, I’ve received a barrage of icy scoffs from I guess what would be [...]
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This ia the core principle of my teaching, my first principle, around which everything I believe and do revolves: To help each student become the person he or she is capable of becoming By “capable” I mean in terms of untapped potential and unrealized growth; unrealized growth not merely in terms of grades, GPA, diploma, [...]
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