The Blank Slate Education Blog

My 9 years training teacher-mentors and working with novice educators helped me learn a lot about the mentor-mentee relationship. Read...

Students need to learn what's real, what's exaggerated, and what's just made up. Read my Edutopia article for more!

Administrators have a dynamic role regarding the tone and implementation of a school's mentor program. Read my Edutopia article for more!

Students need to know how to determine the accuracy of what they are reading on the web.

Purposeful mentoring includes providing mentees with the optimal balance of support and challenge. Read my Edutopia article for more!

This Edutopia article describes how to set agreements for a positive launch to the school year.

Read my Edutopia piece about 3 powerful mentoring strategies for the year ahead.

Educators are in the business of teaching our nations' youths, not sitting in judgment of them. But a local teacher disagrees.

We don't know the details of how the approaching school year will transpire, but we can assume teaching and learning will take place and...

Read my Edutopia piece about mentoring during distance learning.

When we teach about our past, we share historical illumination with our students. It is incumbent upon us to provide the full story....

But as my eyes glossed over the TV screen, I got it; I felt it; it suddenly made sense to me. Yin Yang is a dynamic element of the human co

Substantive online learning is expressly designed to transpire in an online setting.