When I was a kid, I went through a phase of designing baseball stadiums. It was at the time that they built the new Comiskey Park and I felt like it was an injustice to the old. When other kids had idealistic dreams of playing first base for the Giants, I had dreams of designing their stadium when they would eventually replace Candlestick Park. ...

I sit in the library at 7:30.  School does not start for another hour, but those in ''leadership'' must attend this biweekly meeting.  I use quotation marks because, if you could see me right now, I actually stopped talking for a moment to use the hand signal for quotation marks.  See, I am not really a leader.  I facilitate a ...

For the last two hours, I have been converting my format for lesson plans (which include the standard, the essential question, the objectives, a few inclusion pieces and a very structured outline) into the school-mandated, heavy-handed SIOP format.  I'm not against teacher accountability, but it seems that true accountability should mean ...