Specializing in Teaching and Training

Denver Public Schools recently contracted with Palmetto Learning to develop an online course. The course is designed to teach professional educators new strategies to help students for whom English is a second language. Specifically, the course centered around one strategy, the use of non-linguistic representations. My job was to introduce the topic and find interesting [...]

On November 1, 2010 I will be delivering a keynote presentation for roughly 600 teachers in Greenwood, SC for Greenwood SD 50.  I’m very excited to be presenting at their Student Engagement conference. I am looking at student engagement through a new lens lately. I often wonder if we don’t set engagement up as a [...]