While I shared his tale during a few presentations, I never committed the story of “Joe” to writing. I feel his story can inspire and perhaps...
“My role is to ensure that every child and young person in Scotland gets the best education and the same opportunity to succeed,...
I am a strong believer in having kids on task throughout the class session. Lessons rarely finished “early” and if they did, I always had something...
Several years ago, a colleague and I conducted a pilot study that involved teaching 24 gifted elementary students how to meditate and practice other...
C. M. Rubin’s Monthly Global Education Report
Innovation guru Clay Christensen has his eyes on Parenting. In a revealing...
It’s called the economy of life-long learning - aka the digital age, aka the fourth industrial revolution. And we’re just at the...
So search engine giant Google had this neat idea a few years ago to allow its engineers to spend 20% of their time working on things that...
A good life is not one that is free from struggle, but one in which people have the tools to overcome what life throws at them. By that logic, a...
Recently, I had the opportunity to learn about the British educational system from a visiting professor from Cambridge University. When the issue of...
“Perhaps the most distressing threat to student well-being is bullying, and it can have serious consequences for the victim, the bully...
TREES! Interactive Notebook Activity by Gail Skroback Hennessey
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First, I’m not theoretically against evaluating teachers or the idea of holding professionals accountable. Evaluation systems can provide teachers,...
“The divide between ‘refugees welcome’ and ‘refugees not welcome’ seems to be a global phenomenon in which refugees are viewed as...
“I was exposed to even more sites than I was currently aware of. It was a great place to exchange ideas.”
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C. M. Rubin’s Monthly Global Education Report
In her interview with CMRubinWorld this month, Julia Gillard, former Prime...
As a parent or teacher, please answer the following questions about gifted students:
Do you believe gifted students excel at academics?...
“Relationships are becoming increasingly self-defining; there has been an explosion in the language used to describe them. People are...
“To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society,” Theodore Roosevelt once said. In his book, Four...
“It is not simply enough to pour money into our schools: that money must be demonstrably and successfully put to improving education,...