Part of the series: Global Issues in Education One of my teenage sons used to refer to the syllabus in his high school course as a “silly-bus.” In many ways, in today’s ever-changing world, it still is: “Silly”; a learning “Bus”, if you will, and far too often to a new destination, or at least [...]
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Who Turns the Lights Off When We Leave Kindergarten? by Tom King
Part of the series: Global Issues in Education Thanks to Twitter today, I saw an inspiring website article today in Edutopia.com by Mitchel Resnick, entitled, “Kindergarten Is the Model for Lifelong Learning.” I encourage you to read it! Dr. Resnick directs the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT’s Media Lab, from whence many other good ideas [...]
What Do You Do With A Sleeping Student? by Tom King
Part of the series: Global Issues in Education A tweet flew by this morning about what a teacher should do with a sleeping student. I sent a response to Shelly Terrell about my experience years ago as a young math teacher who tapped the shoulder of a sleeping kid in my algebra class, and with [...]
Oh, the Lessons I’ve Learned by Tom King
The following poem was a response to a previous post, Lessons Learned from Great Educators. Tom King let me post it and added an audio clip to accompany the poem! Please listen to him read this amazing poem by clicking the link below! Oh, the Lessons I’ve Learned! by Tom King “Oh, the Lessons I’ve [...]



