Guy's Edu Blog

Recently I have been working on home literacy environment and came across the Home Literacy Environment Questionnaire (HLEQ) by Griffin and...

Years ago I remember Sarah and I observed our boys playing when suddenly one of them called 'pause' then proceeded a discussion abou...

My oldest Erez is now 18, for a few years now he has been drawing on the generational divide between us as he makes his point about pop cu...

Photo from: yoursmallbusinessgrowth.com Let me start by saying that I have never been part of a tech startup so my view may very well be...

A few days back I was invited to the Kamishibai  presentations in the Arts and Literacy workshop class. Monique and Nancy led the class wh...

In the last few weeks the videos describing the demise of higher education institutions has been making the rounds on my discussion boards...

Photo from Akhila's Blog I usually focus of the problems of integration teacher quality etc. But at the heart of what we do as educa...

This week I promised my students that I will do as I asked them. Come-up with something I have not done before. True to my promise and to ...

I am spending another summer in our Reading Center . Graduate and undergraduate students are working with a wonderful group of striving read...

My six years old son has been asking me to help him spell lately. "Dad" he shouts from the general vicinity of the TV "ho...

I am spending a good portion of my waking hours at the KDS Reading Center this summer. Class starts with introducing iPads. My students las...

Take one: One of our presenters in the T ech EDGE conference (coming next week for the third time) told me when we had a few  minutes tha...

It is the end of the year in our school district so my children came home with all that was left in their class. Oren who is in second gra...

This post is a little preachy. I thought about it for awhile and decided to nevertheless publish... After spending 5 days discussing the 20...

While not directly related to arts integration nor literacy it is a topic that I've been thinking about quite extensively lately.  We ...

I am spending a few days in Trinity College in Oxford as part of the World Literacy Summit. We are also trying to create a declaration going...

I find myself in a discussion on creativity with Kurt Knecht  and Bob Woody . I come at creativity from the psychological research side and ...

Khan and Gates No, its not what you think and it is still a clean blog. I spent some time thinking last week on flipped learning a term ...

Last week I had two encounters with artists that expressed an empathetic link to exceptional students. Last thursday I went to li...

A prospective graduate student came by a few weeks ago. His goal as he stated it is to minimize damage to rural students by providing qualit...

In the past few weeks I have started a netcast on using iPads in k12 education (tech edge on iTunesU). My co-host Allison and I spend quite ...

I am currently reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Nobel prize winner Kahneman (see a book review here ). I am still processing some of the...

In the past few months I have been carefully planning a shift from writing to video as an expression. I have to admit that it is still very...

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...