The traditional grammar of schooling (TGOS), a term popularized by Tyack, Tobin, and Cuban (1994; 1995), refers to the ...

[ISTELive 2024 starts this week so I am resurrecting three blog posts from previous years. Below is Blast From the Past (BFTP) #3 from 2013!] Here’s my guiding question for the ISTE conference this ...

Welcome to the resource page for the free 4 Shifts Protocol (formerly known as trudacot), a discussion protocol intended to help facilitate educator conversations about deeper learning, greater ...

I’m catching up on old photos but wanted to be sure I honored the hard work of these three fine educators. Congratulations, Drs. Saeed, Anderson, and Adams!

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I’ve been playing around with ChatGPT from OpenAI. Below are a few prompts and the responses generated by the artificial intelligence (AI) of ChatGPT. Be sure to see the last question below! Your ...

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For the past year I served as a Distinguished Educator Fellow for PDK International. The biggest highlight of that experience was getting to serve as an informal mentor for Owen Elsasser, a young ...

I received The Baseball 100 for Christmas. Wasn’t sure I was going to like it. It’s just a collection of stories about famous baseball players, like the shorter books from the library that I used to ...

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in January 2026... Mastery, Tony Wagner and Ulrik Juul Christensen (education) Planetside, Michael Mammay (science fiction) Spaceside, Michael Mammay (science ...