Recently, I saw this article discussing teachers who take away students’ snacks and lunches if they don’t meet certain health standards. The school in question is in Canada. Out of curiosity, I googled “Teacher taking student’s lunch away” and came up with oodles of articles, many of them discussing schools in…
Okay, it’s confession time. I haven’t always chosen the best lunches. Brace yourself for the following information: I remember eating peanut butter cups and drinking a sugary soda for lunch more times than not in high school. As an adult, I’m quite a healthy eater—so much so that I want to grab my younger self…
A few weeks back, the folks at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good blog published an article entitled “Nine Things Educators Need to Know About the Brain.” The article is excerpted from Louis Cozolino’s new book, The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom. Cozolino, a professor of psychology at Pepperdine University, wants…
In recent weeks, I have read personal opinion pieces from two major news sources that raised eyebrows. Specifically, my eyebrows. While one writer expressed her opinion that we need to bring home economics back as a key component of the school curriculum, the other writer suggested we simply stop teaching writing. That strange feeling in…
Recently, I was thinking about how I failed my students. Not because they couldn’t answer 15 out of 20 questions on a test, but because I might have let them down when they needed my understanding and compassion the most. During lunchtime yesterday, I thought about the great number of students who showed up to…