Music Is My Medicine

Music Is My Medicine

So we are in the middle of chaos. A place where everything is erupting, spilling over, flowing out to sea. And we are teachers and parents who need to somehow make sense of it all to our students and children. We must somehow ground ourselves and our youth in this...
Teaching Mindfulness

Teaching Mindfulness

There is lots of talk about mindfulness but how do we teach this valuable lifelong skill? Here is a Website that helps address this void: https://childmind.org/article/the-power-of-mindfulness/ The problem with teaching mindfulness is this: to be authentic requires...
Tips for Families

Tips for Families

So happy to see my dear old friend (who has always been wiser and calmer than the rest of us normal humans!) sharing his knowledge on coping with stress in family settings. Thank you Travis!
Fourth Sector Ecosystem

Fourth Sector Ecosystem

As any start-up entrepreneur knows—there’s a whole world to figure out between idea and profit. Who knew there was a name for this bewildering state of discovery? Apparently, “for-benefit” organizations (that’s me) need a more cohesive support...
Training Review

Training Review

A review for my M.S. class…   Serious eLearning Manifesto  For the Student’s Choice Assignment, I completed an online training developed by the National Center On Safe Supportive Learning Environments. This online, interactive training was quite extensive...

Making Change

In honor of the New Year, I hereby declare my new 2019 mantra: Change for good.  After all, there are many changes that are not so good. Take aging, for example. One can succumb, and simply accept the inevitability of aging as though life were nothing more than a...

Becoming Trauma-Informed

What a journey! After 16 weeks of reading and research, I have learned so much about Trauma-Informed educational models and Social Emotional Learning this semester! And yet if I were to estimate how much I have read compared to the amount of information out there—it...

Wrong Do It Again!

So proud of my collaboration with amazingly smart Team One in the MIST Program @CSUMB. We had less than a week to read multiple theoretical research articles and formulate an opinion on Behaviorism theory in Education. We hammered out this collaboratively written...

Full Stack Apprenticeship Programs

So long ago, Bloom’s (1984) MIT research demonstrated the efficacy of tutoring + mastery instructional design. At the time, the only way to connect students with tutors was in face-to-face sessions—possible at some small schools—but too expensive for large...

Assessment Blues

I am a member of the higher education assessment police force. Only I don’t have a badge, uniform or authority. My official title is Assessment Facilitator. But my unofficial title is pain in the ass. We are a small but mighty force of faculty who care about...