• I appreciate and applaud Twitter! It is timely~ relevant~ appropriate~ and inspiring. I am engaged in a world of visual beauty~ stunning quotes~ and inspirational lives. I am introduced to art history~ architecture~ gardening~ piano lovers~ harp players~ dancers~ educators~ business people~ photographers~ and military serving us in war struggling areas. Twitter invites me into new conversations~ provides me with learning opportunities to share with my students~ and allows me to publicly...

• Culture is encouragement! Culture is value added action! Culture is a composite of our actions! While our school like all others is not perfect~ we strive to maintain a culture of learning and encouragement for all who enter-students~ parents~ leaders and faculty. If not us~ than who else can create such a culture?
• As the leader of the high school~ I am very aware of the balance this philosophy takes to maintain its authenticity~ tenacity~ and veracity. Authenticity means that...

You can't move mountains by whispering at them.
P!nk

Shes become one of the most successful music artists of her generation~ selling more than 50 million albums. When performing~ shes been known to swing like a trapeze artist overhead as she belts out her hits. Shes a straight-talking woman~ not afraid to speak her mind.

Her name is Alecia Beth Moore~ better known as the pop star sensation Pink (spelled P!nk).

The more I study creativity~ the more I...

• I teach! My content is AP Human Geography and Constitutional Law. My students are the center of the work and are 15-16 years old in AP Human Geography; they are also 17-18 years old in Constitutional Law. The process we use in both classes is a flipped Socratic seminar pedagogy.
• We have four groups of five students in each learning team. In the next three months, each team will select a different book from an esoteric list of 25 recommended content rich texts. Each class then...