I had a conversation with a student recently in which he identified a key turning point in my class. He said he had prepared really hard...

A core memory as I built up the Wasatch Independent Debate League, and now the Independent Education Program, isn’t particularly pleasant...

I love teaching in the homeschooling community so much, because there is just so much to love. The students, the parents, teaching in...

As an educator, the most important thing you will ever do for a student has very little to do with teaching. It has to do with saving...

Some students will make you feel like a great teacher no matter what you do. Success lives inside them so fully, it seems to spill over...

In the midst of my student teaching (I was teaching Debate and History at Davis High School), I was meeting in my college education class...

“I don’t even know what changed but I used to feel like I didn’t want to be myself, and I was ashamed of myself all the time. But I don’t...

To begin my class each week, I will present to students a scenario for us to discuss and debate. The scenario will center on some...

In my time in education, I’ve come across or been presented a number of theories of how education works or should work. These have...