Every year, either our school, our district or the textbook company trains teachers in a new, revolutionary method of teaching reading.  Inevitably, there are PowerPoint slides, CD-ROMS and worksheets that students fill out.  Often, the workshop provider offers a ten-step process for decoding and analyzing text.  Typically, the mode ...

My friend Dan points out that there are over thirteen varieties of the same pretzel. This doesn't even include stadium soft pretzels. Rather, he is referring to the ways that manufactures create pretzels - mini twists, large (thin) twists, fat twists (they look like deyhdrated bagels), thick logs, thin sticks, long sticks, short sticks, pretzel ...

I love how Socrates always ends his dialogues unanswered.  The end seems to be a multifacted mystery rather than a three-point outline.  Similarly, throughout the gospels, Jesus tells parables that confound and confuse his audience.  It seems counterintuitive that two of the greatest teachers of all times were both difficult to ...