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One of the most valuable life lessons I have learned as an adult is that, in most cases, we teach people how to treat us. Our actions or inactions communicate our approval of behavior to others. And while this advice has been helpful in my personal life, I have also applied this philosophy in my […]
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Here’s a riddle: What do Harry Wong, Robert Marzano, and Gray’s Anatomy have in common? Procedures! If you’ve spent any amount of time in education, it’s likely that you’ve heard of Harry Wong and his preeminent book The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher which was published in 1991. Wong’s premise […]
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“What major would you like to declare?” Up until this point, this question had been, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and, for me, the answer had always been “a teacher.” That day, I had rehearsed my response during the drive to the community college I would be attending that fall. […]
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