Guy's Edu Blog

Listening to the authors at the Plum Creek festival Gala (thank you Laurie for the invitation) I was struck by the importance of mentorship ...

The credit to this post goes to Jim Lewis a professor of Math and long time math educator. In a conversation yesterday he said (my memory so...

A colleague challenged me today. How do you know hat student learning is increased using technology. The context is our discussion about man...

I have been contemplating the idea of no textbooks for a while. Part of it stems from the onslaught of new editions in higher education. At ...

This week I visited the Avenue Scholars Foundation  in Omaha. Jef Johnston their chief operating officer said something that resonated with ...

In last weeks post I described a student who improved his writing using visual art representations and learning about the writing process th...

This summer I spent nine weeks in our reading center working with pre-service teachers who tutor struggling readers and writers. I love the ...

A few weekends ago Kurt and I found ourselves in a Uhaul truck moving furniture. Kurt as is his habit levels a multi-layered question in a ...

We are here at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century and yet the "we" of education and teacher  education has not...

This week I had the opportunity to consult informally with a local educational leader (I would use names, but I did not ask for permission s...

In his recent book Dan Ariely discussed Hedonic Adaptation, the ability of our mind to adjust to new baseline conditions. An example of sho...

Yesterday I happened to go to the Joslyn in Omaha . I was struck by the collection and the superb way it was displayed but more than anyth...

It is a rainy morning punctuating a beautiful but extremely busy week. In a short conversation with Monique who is doing some thinking and w...

It is an untypically pessimistic post for me... The drive to make sure that students are on grade level in Reading and Math has hurt many of...

At a retirement party yesterday I chatted with Margaret Latta, a great colleague, about the future of art education at UNL. Yes, despite the...

In a comment on a previous post Kurt ( whose blog is worth visiting ) asked what I meant by entrepreneurship. Like all good questions it ma...

In a series of conversation about the arts in the last few years I have heard repeatedly the argument that the arts help sustain communities...

This time I would like to talk about the recent budget cuts at UNL. While this may be not be directly about arts integration I still believe...

Evie who is my co-teacher in Elementary methods. She just said that during our class. Maybe just maybe we're raising a new generation. T...

I recently went back listened and read Ken Robinson's work. I think that education at all levels should develop an agenda with art orga...

I read recently a blog post contrasting art and technology. The theme was: technology is to the brain what art is to the soul. As my seven ...

In the last year I have been for the first time in my career fully engaged in Teacher Education. The real struggle, following my previous po...

We have competing values in education. We want our kids to be motivated creative and innovative. At the same time we want them to succeed in...

In my literacy methods class we went through an accelerated Arts LINC cycle today. We started with a Taylor Mali poem- reminding everyone th...

This fall two grants that I have evaluated came to a close. ArtsLINC and Reading First. They could not have been more different from each ot...

Much of what I've been doing lately was griping. Griping about how we're headed down the wrong path, about the politics and about ...

Recently I had a conversation with a technology coordinator from our local school district. We had a great conversation. At the core though ...

It's been awhile since I posted, so I am a little rusty. At AERA I went (among other things) to listen to Michael Cole in a distinguish...

So I thought I would pick some of the sessions related to arts integration that looked interesting to me. Hope to see y'all there. ...

Two states won race to the top moneys. I highly suspect that arts education and integration was not a big part of these two states applicat...

This is a part of study reflection one of my students Marsha Silver who has taught art for over a decade: "When I was in elementary s...

This week Deborah Loewenberg-Ball visited UNL and gave a talk on the place of Schools of Education in Research Universities. You can access...

These are just beginning thoughts and may make sense only to me- oh well, I do welcome comments and questions. We have a group of professo...

This stems from curriculum action on my campus recently. The fact that a student took some arts classes in her past, and then went through ...

In Nebraska snow is still falling and I am wondering about friendships, projects and relationships. In a word back to our networks that beco...

As fresh snow is settling on our frozen Nebraska streets I set to write my first blog of the year.The blog this year is set to take a somewh...

So, I am here in Albuquerque  (spelled right this time I hope). This morning I went into a session about studying visual representation of c...

The conference starts next week in Albuquerque NM. Two presentations target the intersection of literacy and the Arts both with book illus...

Our California second grade team has hit a snag recently. The project they were doing was taking too long- disrupting the normal pace and pl...