I am sitting here watching BBC live news coverage of the UK Election returns, via C-SPAN. What will the results be: hung Parliament, minority governance, a coalition government, or another election in 4 weeks? These terms are absolutely fascinating and have driven me across the web in the past few days to understand them, and [...]
Crossing the river has had benefits that go back decades (Roger Wollstadt/Flickr, 1975) It’s inspiring to see what happens when a hospital dedicated to providing the best treatments for children partners with a world-class technology and engineering institution. Children’s Hospital Boston and MIT have embarked upon an exciting program of collaboration and cross-fertilization in research, [...]
We are preparing for Lesser Boy 2.0 and I am losing my home office with the very tall and beautiful built in bookcases. But, I think it is worth it and frankly I am excited to see those shelves filled with toys and kids books! The loss of the office and it’s shelves has required [...]
Sorry kids, this recipe is for the grown-ups . . . Many summers ago Kathryn, my absolutely wonderful teacher friend, went to Spain to study. Not a bad way to spend your summer! She returned with an authentic Spanish Sangria recipe. I immediately stole the deliciously light and fruity recipe from her and began serving [...]
Hello everyone, I am a first year teacher and got hired to teach a high school Learning Skills class in a well-to-do suburb of the Bay Area. I just graduated from a teacher preparation program in Special Ed, but felt the program was not challenging and did not properly prepare us for our first year [...]
Thanks both for dropping by and leaving comments. 'Learner Centred Teaching' – sorry to call you that! – I can see you teach very young children so point taken about it being laborious to corrrect it all themselves but couldn't they do some correction so they learn? What do they do with the writing when [...]
(AmberStrocel/Flickr) Mark Bear’s research interests have taken him from studying vision in kittens to learning and memory in mouse models, and more recently, to the study of Fragile X syndrome, one of the leading genetic causes of autism and intellectual disability in humans. Along the way, he has made several ground-breaking contributions to neuroscience – [...]
What is the Prettiest Thing That You Ever Did See? My first thought goes to the times I’ve been blessed watching a Texas sunset in Big Bend National Park. Or it could be watching three of my grandsons exploring nature and working together to build an elaborate sandcastle during our trip to the beach. But [...]
On weekend mornings when we wake up, Miles and I sit and watch some TV and eat our breakfast. Besides the big name shows: Sesame Street, Yo Gabba Gabba, and Thomas the Tank Engine, Miles has become a big fan of Sid the Science Kid. The daily program on PBS (locally on WHYY) is a [...]
Look Close, Look Close, What do you see? Could it be a baby opossum up a tree? Recently, MacGyver came running proclaiming, “Something’s in the drain! Something’s in the drain on the side of the house. Shadow is going crazy! There’s something in the drain!” He was right. Shadow, our wanna-be-hunting-dog, had definitely detected something [...]