by Dawn | Apr 11, 2013 | education reform, leadership, satire, self-improvement, Teaching, technology
Everyone in the world wants to “Teach Like a Pirate.” Not me. It’s a great book. Dave Burgess is inspiring (read it!!). I don’t want to teach like a pirate, though. I want to “Teach Like a Soviet.” Soviets were the most resourceful...
by Dawn | Jan 10, 2013 | family, food, gratitude, simplicity, sustainability
I found my canvas bags. In my move, I’d lost them and I’d been forced to use plastic. I’d committed a great many enviro-crimes in moving from House A to House B, the least of which was forgetting my bags. I confessed this to my green friend. I...
by Dawn | Aug 25, 2012 | satire, Teaching
School is starting for me next week. I don’t give summer assignments to my students, but my friends and colleagues do, which means that my students are too busy cheating on their summer reading to pay attention to what’s really important–me. This is a...