I owe my readers a mea culpa for the last month or so, and I wanted to let you in on a little of what's been going on with me both personally and professionally. No worries, however, I'll be ...

So I just finished introducing blogging to my middle school classes. They are hooked, as each year before them was hooked. I use it as a substitute for Reading Logs, that dreaded love-of-reading killer which causes eye rolls ...

I've discovered a new blogger whose lastest post, 100 Questions for Arne Duncan, is exactly what we should all be doing.  Rather than always be on the defensive as a profession, we should be requiring our employees, that is, our ...