One thing that I have no regrets about is stepping back from my career to spend my days raising my daughter. My wife and I both had the great fortune of having a parent at home to raise us, and we wanted that for our child, especially for these first formative years of her...
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Still Teaching…
It’s been since June of 2007 since I’ve had a classroom of my own, and I bowed out of the field of teaching completely when my daughter was born. But I’ve found that I haven’t actually stopped being an educator; I have emphasised that I have a classroom of one person. And I’m finding...
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Punished by Rewards
I had read Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn and written a paper on it for a college course in classroom management in 2001. In lieu of posting a half-baked blog entry, I am resorting to regurgitating this old college paper that...
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