I'm on a mission
I published five more books, four with Roman & Littlefield and one with Spark Press. They have been well received.
I am on a mission. Having the good fortune to determine my path as a teacher, whether in US, England, or the former Soviet Union, I believe I must share that good fortune. Teachers are under threats unlike any I have known. They need encouragement to find the courage to take ownership of their classrooms. Teachers have long been the stewards of their domain. Once they close their door, it is they and their students, alone together to pursue learning.
The learning does not happen, however, when teachers are forced to become conduits, deliverers of others’ bidding. How can learning happen it students are expected to be passive for forty five minutes, leave the room and only to return the next day for another forty-five again sitting passively at their desks. Then on Friday (or whenever) regurgitating what they supposedly heard in the days previous. Teachers must be free to educate, not indoctrinate. They need to offer opportunities for conversations, opportunities for students to speak up, to say what’s on their mind. A teacher’s responsibility is to offer agency for their students. Without agency they enter the world susceptible to misinformation, disinformation compounded by AI.
I am on a mission.
