The vast majority of teachers are amazing, selfless people who spend countless hours working to teach our children while being woefully underpaid. They are the unsung heroes who not only take our children off our hands while we go to our jobs, but who lead the way in teaching our…

If you only teach students who have English as their first language and you’ve never tried to learn a second language yourself then maybe you don’t realize how hard it is to be really fluent. As someone who has lived for an extended period in three very different countries where…

So somehow it’s August. No, seriously. Check your calendar. That means in a matter of weeks (or even days, depending on where you live), school will be starting back up again. Now, maybe you are super on top of things and your kids have been studying all summer, doing practice…

Here’s the vicious circle, few people like to do things they do very poorly, but it takes practice to get good which they don’t want to do because they are bad at math/ English/ violin/ whatever. It’s amazing that anyone learns anything, isn’t it? We can learn a lot about teaching from sports and games. Whether it’s youth…

Ogden Nash said, “Foreigners are people somewhere else, Natives are people at home If the place you’re at Is your habitat You’re a foreigner, say, in Rome.” As a general rule, Americans take one of two different views about foreign countries, and, in my experience, both of these views are bullshit. A) We are the greatest country in the world! Everyone else pales before us! …

If you only teach students who have English as their first language and you’ve never tried to learn a second language yourself then maybe you don’t realize how hard it is to be really fluent. As someone who has lived for an extended period in three very different countries where…

After a session on getting technology into Latin American organizations convinced me I needed to know more about how Chilean schools operate, I scheduled interviews with several teachers. To say that their responses were eye-opening would be an understatement. The first person I interviewed was an eighth-grade teacher and the…

Did you know that we offer a game design curriculum? If your school licenses our games, you can get it for free, all you need to do is ask. …

I speak at conferences around the country, have a hundred meetings a year with clients, teachers, students and investors, so when I say that I’m an introvert, people often look at me skeptically. The fact is that I was always very much of a loner when I was younger. …