September 21. Somewhere in the skies between Detroit and Jacksonville. Just left the Lilly conference on college teaching in Traverse City intensely stirred and stirred up by various sessions on brain research about learning, classroom diversity, special needs programs, classroom boredom, humanizing education, inclusive education, pervasive and lasting learning. Four days of education, information, [...]
Today is September 15. It was 6:12 a.m. this morning. For some time, I had been sitting in the stuff living room chair. The lights were out. It was dark outside. At that very moment, I got up out of the chair, opened the front door, stepped out onto the stoop, took a deep breath, [...]
It is September. In eight days I will celebrate the first anniversary of what everyone calls “a divine miracle”: my survival of a massive cerebral hemorrahage as an unscathed “5 per center.” So, as the 15th approaches, as the self-examining period of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur draws near, I’ve been thinking and feeling more [...]
It’s the things and events we focus on make up the world we perceive and think we live in. This means, each of us literally chooses to which she or he gives her or his attention, what sort of a classroom appears to her or him. That is, what we attend to is our reality. [...]
