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I started my classroom career teaching elementary school. One morning I was wanting to explain to my students the effect our words and actions have on others. To illustrate this, I took a 2 by 4 piece of wood and with a hammer, pounded a nail into it all the way through to the other…
“I’m so Disappointed!”
I’m going to add a 6th rule that I think should inform how we teach our children to read critically. We must teach them to rarely cancel or censor a writer or blogger simply because he or she takes a position that from our perspective is intolerable. Freedom expression is after all, the first amendment in…
The Wrong and Right Way to Fix Your Student’s Mistakes
Years ago an investigative reporter presented a story in which some public school teachers had been caught “adjusting” the answers on some of their students’ achievement tests. In this particular school, bonuses were linked to high classroom scores on end-of-the-year achievement tests. The temptation to tweak the weaker students’ answer sheets to increase the overall class average…
The Gift of Today
Dear Friends & Family, I wanted to give you an update on Curt’s health as it has been awhile since I’ve written. First, thank you all for your prayers for our family and the practical support you have provided us this past year. We are grateful for the cards, texts, financial help and the…
Why Choose to Test In-Person?
In my last article I discussed the legality of remote testing and how it started. Now that Covid is in the rearview mirror, many home schoolers have returned to in-person group testing. Both testing virtual and in-person platforms satisfy Oregon testing requirements. So why choose in-person testing? For one, many parents feel their children already have enough…
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A number of years ago before AI, one of my tutors was working with a student in writing. She was struggling and often turned in assignments late with mediocre content. On one occasion, a miracle occurred, or so it seemed. She submitted an exceptional five-paragraph essay. There were no punctuation or grammatical errors, her topic sentences…
