My wife and I saw District 9 this weekend and I have to say, the film was quite good. It referenced The Fly, served as an allegory for apartheid and the plight of refugees (a la hurricane Katrina) as well, and it managed to continue to encourage the one dimensional depiction of people of color [...]

I use my blog to reflect on what informs my practice and to refine how i do things in the classroom.

I often make reference to Paulo Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed as one of the major influences on how I approach my relationship with my students and my pedagogical practices. However, now that I’m working at a new school I find that Friere doesn’t necessarily hold all the answers anymore.

I’m reading Walter Isaacson’s Einstein biography and I was struck by how hard Einstein worked to become the man we all know him to be. He was granted with a God given ability to perform thought experiments, essentially an innate ability to “see” the theoretical concepts that he so loved in his own mind. He [...]

I’ve worked in public schools and I’ve worked in charter schools and I definitely notice a major difference in the way leaders encourage teachers to generate positive results ( passing scores on standardized test ).
I’m lucky to have had the opportunity to work with a friend of over 15 years at both my last [...]