Another month has flown by. It’s only 25 days until Christmas! Wasn’t it just last week that we were returning Christmas decorations to...

The best writers, writing teachers often say, are avid readers, and high on their reading lists are great writers, those who stand as...

He was born on this date in 1928, about 11 months before the big crash. Most of his formative, pre-adolescent years were within that...

One hundred ninety years ago today, a man was born who later published a book the influence of which stretched far beyond his own...

On this date in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved a secret project that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people...

It’s amazing how, over time, one’s perspectives change. As I’m on the verge of testing the adage “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,”...

The much-anticipated, long-awaited Write2Ignite conference has come and gone. The recovery Sunday is now behind me, and the reality of a...

I don’t know where I first heard that statement: “Put the cookies on the bottom shelf.” It certainly didn’t originate with me, but I have...

This week marks my wife’s third week of school already, not counting the week of in-service training, and the stories she shares when she...

Yesterday, I had the honor and privilege of presenting to a group of teachers in their beginning-of-year in-service training. I spoke on...

My wife recently bought some electric plug-in room deodorizers for our house. She asked me to install one that she had laid out for the...

Today marks the beginning of South Carolina’s “tax-free weekend.” It’s not actually totally tax free. Only certain products–and a...

Some people work for a large, satisfying paycheck. Others work for the public and private recognition they receive from appreciative...

My wife, a second-grade teacher, usually has her mind, even during her summer vacation, on school-related matters. Sometimes, that leads...

When my siblings and I were just youngsters, our father often told us stories from his Depression-era childhood, when he grew up on a...

“In their never-ending search for better ways to teach, educators are tempted to be enamored of anything new and to eschew what they...

Sir Francis Bacon wrote, “Some books are to be tested, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” They do not have...

An effective teacher teaches such that the lowest-achiever, the least capable student in the classroom, can understand. If the lowest...

[Excerpt from Teacher: Teaching and Being Taught, pp. 193-94, available at https://www.amazon.com/Teacher-Teaching-Taught-Christian-Educa...

Some classrooms will probably have one or two students who could become stars, but our teaching must not be toward them; rather, if...