by Carol A. Josel | Apr 29, 2020 | Articles, In The News, Interesting Facts, Quotable Quotes
What are you calling what we’re doing nowadays days while thinking about all the things we can’t do? “Staying put?” “Hunkering down?” “Sheltering-in-place?” Whatever name you give it, with our lives are so upended, many of us don’t even know what day of the week...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 8, 2020 | Articles, Quotable Quotes
And just who is Joel Westheimer and to tell us to scrap all those worksheets coming into homes everywhere during these hunkered down, shuttered schools, Twilight Zone-like days? A man in the know, that’s who. Professor Westheimer is University Research Chair in...
by Carol A. Josel | Mar 9, 2020 | Making Education News, Quotable Quotes, Teacher Quote
It’s all about schooling nowadays; have a listen… “Think about the school environment that we had and the respect that we had for teachers and other students. And the discipline that was enforced not only by the teachers but by our parents, who, if they...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 24, 2019 | Quotable Quotes, Teacher Quote
Those in-the-know speak out … “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” ~ Fred Rogers, TV personality “If I was a spider princess, she said, I would spin...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 26, 2019 | Quotable Quotes
“For most teachers and students, testing remains the educational equivalent of a root canal. It’s endured and then recalled with relief. It’s not something deeply integrated with teaching that reinforces long-term educational goals like developing students’ ability to...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 12, 2019 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making News, Quotable Quotes
Every other ad seems to end with a bit about taxpayers footing the bill, and I can’t help but wonder if anyone out there still remembers the time of budgeting and staying within our limits? And that, quite naturally, brings me to the notion about needing vs. wanting,...
