Melissa Flores DavisBeto’s Running But It’s OK Because Climate Change Is Going to Destroy Us AnywayBeto’s announcement of his run for President came while I was experiencing day 2 of a power outage. A massive storm casually rolled…Mar 14, 2019Mar 14, 2019
Melissa Flores DavisWhy Students Must Ask Their Own Questions If They Are to Be Successful in the 21st CenturyAs a public school teacher, I had the opportunity to be trained in the AVID College and Career Readiness System. That opportunity made me…Oct 21, 2018Oct 21, 2018
Melissa Flores DavisIntroverts Do All The Work. Extroverts Make All The Money.A very smart- but admittedly tactless- extrovert friend of mine broke something down for me recently. As an introvert, it was something…Oct 10, 2018Oct 10, 2018
Melissa Flores DavisWhat Kids Learn in Coding ClubsIn my most recent Coding Club for Kids session, we built the Scratch Catch Game. The object of this game is to earn points by catching…Aug 5, 2018Aug 5, 2018
Melissa Flores DavisAmerica Doesn’t Want to Pay What Education Actually CostsAnd what that means for me as a female educatorJun 22, 2018Jun 22, 2018
Melissa Flores DavisEntrepreneurship Sucks And That’s OKEntrepreneurship can be this stupidly frustrating game of two steps forward, one step back. Sometimes one step forward and two steps back…Jun 5, 2018Jun 5, 2018
Melissa Flores DavisEmpathy Isn’t Optional in the 21st CenturyThe common theme in a lot of 21st Century failures comes from a lack of empathy.May 4, 2018May 4, 2018
Melissa Flores DavisWestworld: A Metaphor for EducationDo we want our kids to question the nature of their reality? Or do we want them to just follow the loops we set for them?Apr 26, 2018Apr 26, 2018
Melissa Flores DavisCoercion Is The Problem in Education. Not Direct Instruction.As I was recently reading Lifelong Kindergarten, I felt a strange twinge of defensiveness in one particular section. Mitchell Resnick…Mar 17, 2018Mar 17, 2018
Melissa Flores DavisPlant Yourself Where You Will BloomCertain talents just come naturally to me. I can analyze and create systems, find patterns in complex tasks and leverage them for…Feb 28, 2018Feb 28, 2018
