As some of you know, our school has been doing a Parent/Teacher book study on the book Mindset, by Carol Dweck. I am reading the book for the third time, and I am still finding parts that strike me differently depending on “who I am” when I read it. As a teacher, a parent, a wife, and a … Read more
As usual, Kid President has the right idea. What do kids really want when you go on vacation? (Hint: Water slides and money to spend on tacky souvenirs would not be the right answer.)
I was pretty stupid at the beginning of my teaching career. Not that I don’t occasionally do dumb things now, but I made enormously big mistakes back then that still make me cringe. One of them was to see parents as adversaries instead of partners. I particularly remember a conference with a parent during which … Read more
Something I saw on Twitter about a year ago planted a seed in my head that it would be great to have a Parent/Teacher book study. I’d just read Mindset by Carol Dweck, and thought that would be the perfect book. We got a grant from our PTA to buy 30 books, with the idea … Read more
In my post about books that make great graduation gifts, I mentioned that this book looked promising but I hadn’t had a chance to read it yet. Well, I can now say that I have read it, and definitely recommend it as a nice gift for children who might be “graduating” from Kinder or another … Read more
I am fortunate to have a great network of parents who forward me articles and other links that they know will interest me. Yesterday, a dad forwarded this fabulous post from the TED blog. It includes the video of Jane Andraka’s TEDx talk. If that name sounds a bit familiar, but you can’t quite place … Read more