Throughout my teaching career, I alternated between periods of teaching and periods of learning about teaching. That’s how I found myself in Room 103, an elementary school classroom, observing. Each day, for the first hour of the day, for the first months of the school year, I parked myself in a corner and took notes. It was the teacher, Ms. K,* who suggested that I come at … [Read more...] about In Room 103
Assumptions
Tacit Galaxy
Twice in two days I’ve heard comparisons that link the number of neural connections in the brain to the number of stars in a galaxy. So now I'm imagining myself walking around with a galaxy inside my head. When we were kids, we drew on the most up-to-date scientific imagery available to us and wondered, What if every single atom was a solar system and out there on some of … [Read more...] about Tacit Galaxy