The Disturbing Transformation of Kindergarten: Rebuttal

This blog post has shown up on my newsfeed repeatedly over the last few days and I felt the need to respond.  While reading it I thought of the following comments: “How can teachers hold all children to the same standards when they are not all the same? They learn...

Motivations

As a school administrator I spend a significant amount of my time speaking with teachers about their greatest stressors and the biggest hurdles they feel teaching in public education today.  Of the many concerns I hear, these top 3 stand out: Designing or identifying highly engaging curricular materials that will...

Sid Meier’s Civilization V

Sid Meier’s Civilization V is a mass market strategy game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2k Games and Aspyr. Civilization V is an addictive and powerful historical simulation.  It helps players build vocabulary, an understanding of how the past becomes the present, and familiarity with a wide range...

Do I Have a Right? (iCivics.org)

Do I Have a Right? is part of a collection of social studies games developed by Filament Games for iCivics.org.  iCivics was started in 2009 by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor as an effort to increase civic engagement among young people and has been awarded the American Library Association’s...

Executive Command (iCivics.org)

Executive Command is part of a collection of social studies games developed by Filament Games for iCivics.org.  iCivics was started in 2009 by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor as an effort to increase civic engagement among young people and has been awarded the American Library Association’s Best Websites for...