JWT STORIES 2/7

3 New Ideas to Make You a Better Teacher

Here are some great ideas I found for teachers this week! As always, I enjoy any comments and feedback that you send me. Sometimes (most...

Every week I try to scan articles to give me good ideas to share with my teachers. I thought I'd share some of that here. These ideas...

Roughly 80% of Charter Schools perform worse than their public school counterparts. Charter Schools worsen segregation and harm public...

Friday night I took my kids to see the new Thor movie. I recommend it. It was funny, and we had a good time. With that in mind, since...

It's better to tell yourself this in the first place than to remind yourself afterwards. #DeepThoughts

This article is the best thing I've read for COACHES, PARENTS, and TEACHERS in a long time. Really really good stuff here. The video...

I found a couple of things to share... 1. Here is a story asking "why do we still do things this way" in schools. It will really make you...

The first 3 videos (skip ahead if you want to find the one you want) are (1) "Bullying Ends Here," (2) a Spoiler Free Review of STRANGER...

COMPETITIVE GREATNESS is "the ability to be at your best when your best is needed." That's from Coach John Wooden's Pyramid of Success. I...

Hurricane Irma is slamming into south Florida right now. At some point this week we've all seen it on the news, on Facebook, on Twitter,...

Last week was my birthday. I got a lot of Happy Birthday wishes on my Facebook timeline, text messages, phone calls, etc. One of those...

"And there's no way I can pay you back, but my plan is to show you that I understand... You are appreciated." ~ Tupac Shakur Yes, we just...

"I can hold him, coach," he said to me, wiping the sweat off of his face. "Okay, what's the plan?" I asked him. He looked at me, dead...

Happy Sunday to all my JWT friends out there. I wanted to write something with a "back to school" feel to it. I was going to write...

Rated E - For Everybody "I've known him my whole life." Have you ever said that about somebody? Well that guy lifting those heavy weights...