Category Archives: Online Learning

Thank a Teacher

This week, millions of student’s will head back to school.  While our education system is under tremendous fire, it is the time of year for all of us to remember the saying ‘if you can read this [blog], thank a teacher’. For ten months of the year, our children spend almost 60% of their waking […]

MOBILE LEARNING IS A FAD – PART I

I recently did an inventory of the computers that I have owned over the past thirty years and it was an enlightening experience.  If you haven’t done this, it is worth taking 15 minutes to go through it and think about how the technology has impacted your life. For me, it started in high school.  […]

College Readiness 101

Get ‘em Ready… Over the past 20+ years I have been fortunate to have been able to work across both the K-12 and Higher Education sectors as an educator, administrator, and service provider.  The one thing that is common among public schools, charter schools, for profit schools (HE & K-12), private colleges and public colleges […]

Customer Service…

… and the 15 ¢ Newspaper It was 1978.  I had used part of the payout from my weekly newspaper route to purchase Meat Loaf’s hot new album ‘Bat out of Hell’ (vinyl that is).  Every day after school I would hop on my purple Puch moped, stuff my papers in my blue newspaper satchel […]

ASSESSING ASSESSMENT

Peter Drucker is one of my favorite thought leaders.  I have read much of his work but the one thing that I keep coming back to is a paper he wrote that was published in the Harvard Business Review in 1999 entitled ‘Managing Oneself’.  When I first read the article I thought ‘this is intriguing’.  […]