Maryanne Parker, etiquette expert and founder of Manor of Manners, agrees, and she even recommends enforcing these etiquette principles at a young age. "We cannot assume children will just pick up ...

The following is a speech delivered by Professor Kaplan this month to the Rotary Club of Madison, Wisconsin. The text is reprinted here with his permission. On February 15 of this year, in a class in ...

Psychological research on learning is sometimes overemphasized in the classroom, but that doesn’t mean some concepts shouldn’t play an important role in teachers’ approaches. A report released last ...

It was a principal's worst-case scenario: School was starting in a few days and I still had an open position in seventh-grade math. I didn't want to hire a teacher who was lacking traditional ...

Some call John Wooden the Wizard of Westwood because his UCLA teams dominated college basketball in the 1960s and early ’70s. But to that, Coach Wooden says, “I’m no wizard. I am a teacher.” He says ...

This summer I observed, with as much empathy as I could muster, the labors of two colleagues and friends who were preparing their tenure cases. Both of them asked me for advice about the area in which ...

From early morning greetings of “Hello, how are you today?” to listening quietly to instructions during circle time or using table manners during lunch break, the concept of Grace and Courtesy can be ...

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It’s no secret that computer science (CS) courses are not a priority in many high schools. Across the nation, many schools get away with packaging courses that teach kids to make Powerpoints, ...