I’m back from vacation. That means goodbye for now to swimming in the river with my kids and falling asleep to the plurp of tree frogs at night, but it means hello again to video meetings with the team at Taxonomy Towers, so there’s that. Today we watched video of several teachers including North Star High School’s…
The best part of my job is this: On Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, I get to sit a the big table on the 30th floor of TLAC Towers, far above the madding crowd… Just kidding. Our office looks out on a creek, a vegetable patch and a cemetery. We do have a second floor but it…
There’s only one thing better than a great teacher who accelerates your learning at something you care deeply about—a great teacher who accelerates your children’s learning about something they care deeply about. As a dad I’ve seen my kids grow not only with great classroom teachers but great music instructors, soccer coaches and the like. At…
Think for a minute about a task like driving. Most likely you do it almost every day. Usually multiple times per day. Often for hours at a time. So, really, you ought to be very, very good at it by now. World class. But if you’re like most people you’re not a very good driver and (less…
In my spare time this year I’ve been working on developing a set of teaching videos of soccer coaches, part of it as a result of my work with the US Soccer Federation, where the coaches I’ve worked with–Dave Chesler and Tony Lepore especially–have blown me away with their attentiveness to and insight about the craft of…