The Superintendent's Chair

It was 1986. It was an ordinary Tuesday. And then it wasn't. I was student teaching in Lubbock, Texas, at Monterey High School. I ...

When my oldest son went off to college a Senior in his fraternity, who was majoring in engineering, relayed this bit of wisdom: D's get ...

Do grades reflect your actual ability or knowledge? I earned a 2.4 grade in my Organic Chemistry class at the University of Washington. (T...

You, my friends, are an awesome group of people. You are funny, talented, thoughtful, and intelligent. You are, most of the time, friendly...

When I arrived at work this morning the air temperature, as measured by my car, was 5 degrees. As I walked from the parking lot to my offi...

Earlier this year, Jimmy Kimmel showed a video of a wolf walking down the hall of the Olympic Village in Sochi. Not surprisingly, it became ...

A young man - still in elementary school - looked up in the teacher's eyes and asked, "What brings you joy?" A teacher recou...