Despite good intentions, the way we approach ‘career readiness’ in education often falls short.

Learning leads to knowledge and knowledge leads to theories just like theories lead to knowledge. It’s all circular in such an obvious way.

Let’s stop the endless worksheets and cooperative groups that skim through text merely to find answers and grow a culture of reading.

Costa’s levels of questioning feature three tiers of questioning designed to promote higher level thinking and inquiry.

Critical thinking questions include, ‘Why is this important? What are the causes and effects of this? How do we know if this is true?”

We can’t control everything and apologizing for things out of our control can set unrealistic expectations of teachers.