Teacher Tom

New York Times opinion columnist and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman last week posed the question, "Wh...

I was recently offered some unsolicited advice about blogging by a search engine optimization expert with whom I found...

I've taught precious few things during my decades as a teacher. I taught one child how to replace a roll of toilet...

When our daughter Josephine was a preschooler, she would complain, "I wanted to play with her, but when I asked t...

I'm currently reading Tara Westover's best selling memoir Educated . Early in the book, she recounts a traumat...

As any preschool teacher will tell you, every parent knows their child is a genius. And they're usually not shy ab...

Teaching preschool is hard work. It is physically and emotionally demanding. At the end of a day in the classroom I...

Baby, everybody has to fight to be free. ~Tom Petty We talk a lot about freedom. Everybody wants it for themse...

Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human bei...

People worry about the children we teach, those who are allowed to teach themselves, to play, to learn the way human b...