Spotlight: Komal Hadala – Leadership and Revolution
Komal Hadala is another young woman who has led a “revolution”. Our spotlights are typically about young people who take on big issues that have impacted them very personally – in their own places of residence, study, and work. Kamal is another heroine who saw…
Spotlight: Learning and Teaching in Violence
The Peace Of Wild Things – Poem by Wendell Berry When despair grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood…
Spotlight: Haim Ginott
We want to introduce you to Haim Ginott today. He is, sadly, no longer with us but over 50 years after his death in 1973, his wisdom can still startle us with its insight, humor, and clarity. He was a clinical psychologist who began his…
Spotlight: Bruce Johnson – Inspiration to Really Support Each Student
Bruce Johnson is a physics professor at Arkansas State University. This picture went viral in 2018 when one of his students, Kristen Black, posted the picture on social media. The student had a daycare conflict and Bruce just told her to bring the child to…
Spotlight: Charlotte Mason
As we start another new year, we put our spotlight on a January baby, Charlotte Mason, born January 1st, 1842. She is another great and innovative educator who helped change the way we think about children and their upbringing. She published the 6 volume Original…
Spotlight: Two New Year’s Resolutions for Each Month
January I will keep my hands, feet, and other objects to myself when non-teachers tell me how to run my classroom; instead I will learn one new teaching technique between now and the end of the year and ask students what they think of it….
Spotlight: Journalists
“Bulgarian television reporter Viktoria Marinova has become the third journalist to be murdered in the European Union in the last year and the fourth since the start of 2017. The 30-year-old’s body was found dumped near the Danube River in the town of Ruse, northern Bulgaria,…
Spotlight: Leah Guenther, MS Teacher
Leah wrote a recent article in Harvard Educational Review. She has taught for 9 years and says: “I adore this job. There is nothing else I would rather do. It is challenging, however, so I am always looking for practical ways to ensure my longevity in…
Spotlight: José Antonio Abreu, founder of El Sistema orchestra, 1939-2018
Jose Abreu, founder of El Sistema Youth Orchestra in Venezuela, died Saturday, March 24th, at the age of 78. Abreu founded the globally acclaimed El Sistema, or The System, in 1975 in a garage with just nine musicians. In an interview, Abreu said about that…
Spotlight: Mr. Whitson – Best Teacher I Ever Had
By David Owen from Reader’s Digest (Asian Edition), April 1991, 47-48, downloaded June 1 2018. Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus, an ill-adapted nocturnal animal that was wiped out…
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