students and teachers

What makes The Heart of a Teacher different?

Wayne Holmes gathered great compilation of stories that will greatly inspired teachers to continue their service to the students. The author were able to present all the mixed emotions of teachers:...

Pardon My Absence - More Local Exposure

I’ve spent most of the week trying to prepare a website for local exposure.  I will have my site featured in the Life Styles of our local paper again.  This website is set up strictly...

Operation: infinite potential

An Inconvenient Truth opened the door for a long overdue national conversation and call to arms for the state of our environment and the carbon footprint being left behind. The financial crisis in...

The KIPP-ing point

For a decade now, the ed policy world has been wowed by a small but growing network of scrappy charter schools that appear to consistently produce high-achieving students in communities where...

4 children rescued from rubble of collapsed Haiti school

PETIONVILLE, Haiti -- Rescuers pulled four children alive Saturday from the rubble of a three-story Haitian school that collapsed on classrooms filled with students and teachers, killing at least 84...

Owner of Collapsed Haiti School Arrested

Police arrested the owner of a Haitian school that collapsed on top of students and teachers during school hours, killing at least 88 people and launching a frantic search for survivors amid tons of...

School Collapses in Haiti, Many Feared Dead

School Collapses in Haiti, Many Feared Dead By: Bree Shirvell A school in Haiti collapsed Friday with students and teachers inside. It is not yet known why the second story of the La Promesse...

School summit seeks solutions for violence

The Washington Post reported today on a school summit that met in Maryland to discuss the realities of school life. About 200 students came together to talk about the problems bullying, brawling, and...

Students Learn with Election

In the days following the election, the results have become a hot topic in schools across the country. So we headed back to class to find out what students and teachers are talking about...

The Voices the Change - K12Online Keynote

My keynote presentation for the Leading the Change strand of the K12OnlineConference has been posted! The idea for this keynote was to talk about the ideas for school change but to frame the "big...

Coming to an iPod near you

Earlier this month, our friends at Apple released a new feature, iTunes U. Now students, teachers, administrators, or John Q. can listen in on lectures from universities, colleges, or other...