Last Saturday I finished my last day at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston and headed just north of the city to stay with my friend Rick Lavoie in Saugus. He and I would get up at 4 am to head to Logan Airport as we both had signed up for Buffalo Bill Cody Center …
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A visit to Yellowstone National Park
For the last four days I’ve been at my final professional development program of an insanely busy summer. I’ll be writing about what I learned in Wyoming and Montana and sharing the lesson plan I complete as a requirement for my participation… but as today is a travel day and I’m losing two hours by …
American Lawyers Alliance awards banquet in San Francisco
WARNING: Self-adulation, straight ahead… As if I didn’t need more reasons to love San Francisco (my favorite city in the United States), earlier this summer I was recognized as one of three law-related education teachers of the year by the American Lawyers Alliance. The ALA started as a wives’ auxiliary to the American Bar Association …
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The Price of the Three-Year Contract
The summer that I was hired to work at Hillsborough High School — 1993 — my new supervisor Al Friedman suggested we get together for lunch. I have little recollection of what we talked about, but it probably was the longest conversation I had with Al, who was a pretty taciturn guy. I don’t know …
Generic Update: Ten Days In
Yesterday was my last day in Boston, four weeks that featured side trips to San Francisco and Cambridge (Massachusetts). It was an extremely challenging and fulfilling way to spend the month of August. I’m typing this on Saturday night, ensconced in my friend Rick Lavoie’s house in Saugus, Massachusetts, about a half hour north of …
Harvard Case Method Project Community Workshop 2019
Over the past three days I’ve attended a program held at Harvard Business School, the Harvard Case Method Project, led by Professor David Moss. Harvard has been doing some version of the case method for over a century, dating back to their law school’s casebook method sometime around the Civil War. The premise is deceptively …
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A statement of purpose?
First, the background For 26 years I’ve worked as a high school social studies teacher at Hillsborough High School, in Hillsborough, New Jersey. For a long time I’ve thought about trying to keep a blog about an individual school year or about education in general, but the busy launch to the school year has always …
Fenster on Education 