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As we bent our heads to pray over a meal, a guest decided to abstain from the grace. “It’s a good thing this isn’t...
I have been working hard this year as an interventionist, teaching various reading programs, including those for whole classrooms and those for individuals and...
The poetics of Aristotle, not a real treatise but actually a group of something like lecture notes, consists of some of the most influential...
For the past three years, I’ve used the Core Knowledge History and Geography series for fourth grade. Our classical school recently switched from using...
Actually, it’s not completely gone. Because you can’t actually educate a primary student without using techniques which are in the trivium. Particularly the first...
Now, a person takes into their hands a serious task when they suggest a reading list for another person. After all, even if, like...
Classroom design is always an individual thing. One of the problems with the one-size-fits all ideas in education (and unfortunately, modern education does not...
What is the classical model? Can a modern person recapture the spirit and practices of a classical education? Yes. Let me go over a...
It’s that time again. The time when you might just need to get some Christmas cards and address them if you’re ever going...
Which phonics are best for teaching reading? I’ve given this a lot of thought over the last twenty years, and I’ve decided that Orton Gillingham...
The list is in no particular order. How many of these movies and books have you read or watched? Buck — Alaska. From the novel The...
Last weekend, I was talking to the Resident Latinist and his friend and colleague, who I’ll call the Local Hellenist (Greek scholar). “I have...
Every year I buy a new teacher planner, but this year I decided to do something different. Instead of getting a pre-formatted planner, I...
What is Going on at the Princeton Classics Department Quite a lot, in fact. News stories abound. On June 1, the Department announced...
Johnny still can’t read, in many cases. As I went around the building last spring, in regular discussions with teachers, the subject of phonics...
Back in the 90’s, there was a famous book by Robert Fulghum, “Everything I ever needed to know I learned in Kindergarten.” The book...
In Every Third Grade Girl’s Library? Last week, while I was at my daughter’s house helping take care of my two young grandchildren,...
Somehow I’ve always had a curiosity about the history of holidays. In my mind, the evolution of human social practice must be progressive and...
As a reading interventionist, I’ve been using Orton Gillingham phonics cards for pretty much all the kinder through second grade students I’ve been assigned....
The focus on testing was broken. Mental health concerns came to the forefront. People started asking how other people felt and being actually concerned....
A polarizing figure on the educational front, John Dewey, whose life of almost 100 years produced dozens of works of public scholarship on three...
I have been working this winter on creating some reading comprehension passages for my Teachers Pay Teachers store, creating in particular some passages on...
(What makes it classical? Emphasis on time structured, direct instruction, phonics, and one-on-one interaction between teacher and student with frequent error intervention.) Small group...