I ran across this story in NatGeo about the “goliath grouper” and how fisherfolks want to kill it again after a long hiatus. I responded on my latest newsletter in the following unhappy pique: Every hunter I have ever known, no exception, has been a wheedling nimrod whose plea is always the same: please let…

In the last five years of teaching I have come to think of my persona as a “learning concierge”.  I am here to help facilitate learning for the folk.  The quote below from Shake Shack CEO, Danny Meyer, fits that persona even though I am loathe to adopt business metaphors in teaching simply because that…

A poem I wrote for the National Writing Project’s Write Now Teacher Studio in the Teachers as Poets Group.  Why do this? It is a form of editing that allows me and others to see how the working process happens for me. I am hoping it might help others who want to adapt this idea…