“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust Starting a new blog, goofing up the domain name for an established blog (www.mguhlin.org isn’t working anymore, but you can find Around the Corner at mguhlin.blogspot.com) …
Have you ever run into someone taken by power that they will do anything to hold onto it? I have. Several times in my career in education, I have had to work in organizations with people that power had corrupted, or as Ryan puts it, “stained purple.” For whatever the reason, something …
Photo by Soledad Lorieto on Unsplash “You’ll be happy to know, Doug, this isn’t a dead horse.” Over at The Blue Skunk blog, Doug “Old Timer” Johnson, quotes someone who asks, “Is blogging dead?” (paraphrase). Doug writes: The Blue Skunk was started in …
Earlier this year (2024), I had the chance to facilitate a workshop on a topic I’d spent a LONG time reading about and researching. I felt ignorant about it, so much so that I started out studying logic, what constituted logical fallacies, types of bias, and more. It was great because I was …
Personal development is the idea that people constantly strive to improve themselves, whether intellectually or emotionally, whereas professional development is how people continue to improve their professional skills to benefit their careers. Source Finding Answers Together One of the courses or …
A short time ago, I wrote about Pay for Student Performance. At the time, I felt I didn’t know enough about it but took a stab at trying to understand it. On Sunday, it occurred to me, “Why not run this through The Orwell Test?” Photo by Олександр К on Unsplash Here are the …
When watching evangelicals on television, listening to incessant political adds of 2024, I am often reminded what theologian Dick Westley calls “religion vs faith” conversation. Here’s an excerpt from his book, Redemptive Intimacy: For many evangelicals, it seems Christianity is a …
These are my notes on Powerful Teaching. I’d like to say I finished the book, but I only made it 3/4ths of the way through before I ran out of time. I may add more content below, but these are my big take-aways. I still have a bit more to add to these notes, but since I almost lost my notes (I …
Looking for an easy way to introduce students to CER, or Claim Evidence Reasoning approach? You may want to check out Scott Phillips slim text, Writing in Middle School Science: Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Papers That Work, part of his Primal Teaching Series of books. The Amazon book jacket reveals: …
Today, we must realize that schools are under attack by Christian Nationalists that are doing their best to control and destroy democracy in the United States of America. They have launched their attack and democracy can’t count on a few well-placed Democrats in the White House to do it all. …
Ok, this blog entry explores Greg Epstein’s book, Good Without God. Before that, though, I thought I’d share how I came to be reading a book about Humanism. Morality vs Religious Faith Living through COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been curious to see the assault on reason that many …
Thanks to Stephanie DeYoung, I had a chance to see again how history is hidden. Like the person in the video at the top of the Wakelet shown below, I was ignorant of my U.S. history. I can claim it as a descendant of Norwegian immigrants. We are all ignorant of our history, there should be little …
As I take the time to read the history of my Panamanian roots, I realize how much I don’t know. But I do have threads to cling to, that I can grasp and pull greater truths closer. One of the words my mother told me of as a child as that of “The Guaymí.” I never understood what the …