Great teachers don't teach the same year twenty-eight times. They teach twenty-eight years once. I may reuse activities or revisit lessons that worked well before, but I never reuse the same plans year after year....

In Kentucky, voters in all 120 counties rejected a constitutional amendment that would have allowed tax dollars to be sent to private, charter, or religious schools. Every county. Rural and urban. Red and blue. That...

Football has been a staple in my home my entire life. Sunday afternoons and Monday nights, Dad and I sat in front of the television, watching Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, Walter Payton, and Emmitt Smith...

Bloom where you're planted It means flourishing regardless of circumstances and growing despite your environment. Such sage advice. And yet, so many of us waste precious time thinking, "... if I had a better job/found...

Recently, someone asked why I like writing about fierce female warriors. Because they were real women For generations, we've been told that women warriors were the stuff of fantasy—convenient plot devices in Greek epics, symbols...

I have strong opinions about what’s happening in the world—and that shouldn’t be surprising. My day job is teaching at-risk students, many of whom were born outside this country. I see their fear and am...

I've always believed that writing is my passion, but teaching is my calling. Writing fills a part of me that few things ever will, but my purpose in this life is to empower each child...

Traditionally, the age of eighteen marks the threshold of adulthood. It’s a time when the reins of childhood are loosened, and responsibility shifts entirely, giving young adults the freedom to carve their own paths. It's...

So many horrible things are happening at whiplash speed. It can leave us with a sense of helplessness and rage. That's exactly how they want you to feel. So what can we do? Steven Covey's...

Cognitive dissonance. I've been thinking a lot about this lately. Actually, I've been thinking about how we got here, how good, moral people, people I've loved for decades, friends, family ... people I work with,...