I’ve been corresponding over the years with a young man Djarudi Habimana from Rwanda. He got in touch with me through LinkedIn, and at that time needed funds to sell chickens and vegetables to help his widowed mother. Since that time, he’s really blossomed, creating a charity organization called Benevolence is Love, which supports children...Read More

In his theory of multiple intelligences, Howard Gardner posits the existence of at least eight different intelligences in the human mind.  Why are we good at one intelligence and not so good in other?  I’ve dealt with this issue in another recent post, but in this one I’d like to zero in on one of...Read More

I’ll be presenting at the upcoming 29th Annual MicroSociety Conference on July 12, 2022. MicroSociety is an innovative educational program developed by artist/educator extraordinaire George Richmond in the 1960’s where students re-create the institutions of society within their own school environment, including having their own economic system with banks, their own judicial system with student-created...Read More

Summer is officially here, and many parents–after homeschooling their kids for the last three months–are wondering whether they should keep schooling their kids to make up for a potential ”summer slide” or just let them enjoy the summer.  I come down strongly on the side of enjoying summer, but that doesn’t mean learning need not...Read More

During the past three months, millions of parents have had to become ”experts” in teaching and learning, familiarizing themselves with school subjects, study skills, instructional objectives, distance learning, and a lot more.  However, there’s one teaching component that is central to learning that often gets left out of the mix:  helping a child or teen’s...Read More