I believe that effective teaching can only occur after the establishment of a classroom community that provides students with a place where they feel safe taking risks.

Reading is a kairotic event–an intersection between a reader and an author, a text, a linguistic code, a time, a historical understanding, prior knowledge, and situated perspective.

For students to attain fluency in the world’s “universal language,” it is imperative that they learn to manipulate the relationships between absolutes to recognize and make use of the negative space that exists.

We must expose students to the idea of science not as a collection of facts, but rather as a process of developing continuously-evolving explanations about the world.

Effective teaching considers the intersection between technology, pedagogy, and content in order to create meaningful learning experiences. Reflections are an essential component of good practice.