When Wiggins & McTygue launched a focus on Essential Questions , almost twenty years ago, they were ahead of the pack.  With the evoluti...

     Next to December, June is about the busiest month of the year-- only no one is singing carols or baking goodies.  We're all bemoa...

Yesterday I talked with a Superintendent in Pennsylvania, and he was complaining how kids can't think.    "They cut and paste, they...

While preparing for my  AASL breakout session scheduled for Saturday,  I thought I'd share some documents with our virtual library world...

Every now-and-again while walking on the Internet Superhighway, I stumble upon a site that is so great that I just want to give it a flash-m...

This week I heard from librarians across America that they are discouraged by students showing up at their door with low-budget-research ...

Generation M, Generation Y, or the Millennial... whatever you call them, like to be in control.  If you design your lessons so that they hav...

It makes total sense  that students are cheating, when they have no motivation to learn the content.  If students don't care about what...

I love to shovel snow on a peaceful morning when there's only a few inches.  The silence is golden, the beauty is unsurpassed, and the f...

After close examination of the Common Core Standards for ELA, I cannot help but notice that research plays a quantifiable role in ho...

There is a simple profound, old quote which is sometimes attributed to Mother Teresa :  "It is better to do great things, than to be gr...

A new term has arisen for Infographics-- Information Architecture --data visualized .   To capture and summarize the meaning of a bundle of ...