Category: random
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Director of Technology – Casady School
(cross-posted from Facebook – with a few more photos added here!) Thanks to everyone for your prayers the past couple months. I am excited to announce I’ve accepted a new position, which starts in July, as the Director of Technology for Casady School in Oklahoma City. Casady is an independent PK-12 school, and I am very…
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Reflections on the Daddy Daughter Dance
Several weeks ago before Valentine’s Day, our elementary school’s student council hosted a “Daddy Daughter Dance” as a fundraiser. The brainchild of the 4th grade teacher who is this year’s student council sponsor, the Daddy Daughter Dance was a phenomenal success rivaled in attendance only by our annual PTSA Bingo night! by Wesley Fryer Not only did…
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Help Ricky Wyatt’s Family on Tues Dec 30th: Eat at S&B Burger in Norman, OK
Update 12/29/2014: Ricky passed away this weekend. This fundraiser is still going forward to support the family. If you live in or near Norman, Oklahoma, help the family of Ricky Wyatt with their overwhelming medical expenses following his diagnosis of ALS in March 2012 by eating lunch or dinner at S&B Burger at 102 Main on Tuesday,…
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Videos, Articles & Books To Get You Thinking About UFOs & ET
My 11 year old daughter, Rachel, is very interested right now in UFOs and the question of whether there is “intelligent life” (E.T.) elsewhere in our universe besides on planet Earth. The past few weeks, and over these last few days of Thanksgiving holidays, we’ve watched most of the episodes in a 2012 TV series…
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Identity, Bias, Differences and Change
In his Velocity 2014 New York Ignite talk titled, “Unicorns and The Language of Otherness” Aneel Lakhani makes some thought provoking points about identity. At 4:04 of the video he states: We have to separate our identities, who we are and who we will be, from who we were, what we have done, and what we…
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Don’t Equate Competency With Identity
The tendency to stereotype, define, and “put someone in a box” may be universal in our U.S. culture. Lots of people seem to have an innate desire to label others. Adults may sometimes think this is a youth behavior, or just something kids do at school, but I think many (if not most) adults follow the same…
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Long Term Sub Needed: Positive Tomorrows of Oklahoma City
If you are or know a certified teacher interested in a GREAT and challenging long-term sub position in Oklahoma City, please contact or have them contact Positive Tomorrows as soon as possible. Positive Tomorrows is a FANTASTIC private school in Oklahoma City exclusively serving homeless students and families. My wife, Shelly, teaches 3rd and 4th…
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Distressed Over the Rising Costs of College (and other things)
If you are not distressed over the rising costs of college in the United States, you are not paying attention. When I worked at the College of Education at Texas Tech University from 2001 to 2006, my first and WONDERFUL boss (Fred Hartmeister) used to compare the skyrocketing costs of a graduate course during the…
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Free Play and Our Overscheduled Lives
Consider these words from Peter Gray, author of “Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life:” Free play is nature’s means of teaching children that they are not helpless. In play, away from adults, children really do have control and can practice…
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We Love our Transportation Play Town Rug by Kidcarpet.com
(This post is sponsored by Kidcarpet.com. In compliance with 2013 FTC .com Disclosures, the author discloses he was given an 8′ x 8.6′ “Total Transportation Play Town Rug” by Kidcarpet.com to create this review. See the author’s blog disclosure policy for additional details.) I love playing on the floor with kids. In school classrooms, classrooms…