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The Teacher’s Achievement Gap

March 6, 2013 By Lavell White 1 Comment

If educators agree with the motto—“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one”—why are some of us holding our students back with our own fears?

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: achievement, achievement gap, classroom, education, fear, holistic, Lavell White, teacher

3 Things We Can Learn From U7 Basketball

February 27, 2013 By Mike Andrews Leave a Comment

Parents and coaches have invaluable opportunities to teach and apply real-life lessons within the fun of organized sports. Unfortunately, many of us miss out on the opportunity.

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: basketball, behavior, children, classroom, Coach, coaching, discipline, kids, life lessons, losing, Mike Andrews, parenting, parents, sore losers, sports, teacher

Real Men Don’t Teach

February 20, 2013 By Dennis Danziger 20 Comments

A school teacher realizes that as long as he teaches he will never gain the status of a real American man, someone who really matters.

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: children, Dennis Danziger, education, gender stereotypes, insecurity, masculinity, pink collar job, Real Men, respect, teacher, teaching

Six Tips To Fulfill Your Sexual Fantasies

September 24, 2012 By J.R. Reed 22 Comments

Want your partner to willingly participate in your fantasies? It’s not as hard as you may think.

Filed Under: Sex and The Single Dad Tagged With: cornbread, dominatrix, fantasy, girlfriend, librarian, nurse, partner, sex, sexual fantasy, teacher, Threesome, wife

Taylor Mali Performs ‘Miracle Workers’

September 16, 2012 By the Editors Leave a Comment

“Education is the miracle. I’m just the worker. I’m a teacher. And that’s what we do.”

Filed Under: Editors' Picks, Education, Ethics & Values, Learning, Slam Poetry Tagged With: miracle worker, performance, poet, slam poetry, Taylor Mali, teacher

What’s a Man To Do? New Work for 2012 and Beyond

July 20, 2012 By Jed Diamond Ph.D Leave a Comment

Find the new good life.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Quarter-Life Crisis, Work/Life Balance Tagged With: 2002, Accountability, adventure, American Dream, BALLE, Baskin-Robbins, Bernard Madoff, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, change, changing the world, civilization, clan, commitment, common good, Community, Cornell, Daniel Quinn, Duke University, earth, economy, education, employment, environment, family, green economy, health, home, income, inheritance, intuition, Investment, job training, John Robbins, Juliet Schor, leisure, masculinity, men's groups, neighborhood, Network, networking, new good life, old good life, overwork, pioneer, quarter-life crisis, Recession, relationships, safety, SAIC, social innovation, Social Security, souls, success, support groups, teacher, The Good Life, tribal, troop, unemployment, village, volunteer, Willits Healthy Action Team, Work, work/life balance

“Please, Professor,” Give Me a B

June 8, 2012 By Mark Sherman 3 Comments

A professor’s funny song from the 1970s anticipates the problem of young men not doing their best in college.

Filed Under: Education, Featured Content Tagged With: begging, Boys Initiative, college, education, gender differences, grades, music, performance, professor, societal expectations, students, teacher

I Love it When You Call Me Big Poppa: A Black Writer Faces Fatherhood

June 5, 2012 By Geoffrey Philp 5 Comments

My wife and I had just received the best and most terrifying news of our lives – we were expecting a baby. I had just lost my job; how would I provide for my family as a struggling writer? Would I be able to be the father I wanted to be?

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Father's Day, Father's Day 2012, Featured Content, The Good Life Tagged With: author, baby, breadwinner, Caribbean Baby Boom Generation, children, discipline, economics, fatherhood, Jamaica College, New father, Parenthood, poetry, Responsibility, teacher, violence, writing

Dear John: Should I Work With the Woman I Had an Affair with?

February 2, 2012 By John Simpson, GoLocalProv.com 2 Comments

Is it smart to work in the same place as the woman I had an affair with? How do I tell my friends that their support isn’t enough? Is my son’s teacher fair game?

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions Tagged With: advice, Affair, business, dear john, relationships, sex, teacher

Male Teachers Are Vital

December 15, 2011 By Julie Gillis 28 Comments

Julie Gillis remembers a teacher who changed her son’s life.

Filed Under: Boys, Families, Featured Content, Presumption of Male Guilt, The Good Life Tagged With: education, elementary school, gender inequality, Julie Gillis, Male Guilt, presumption of guilt, teacher, The Good Life

The Teacher Who Changed My Life

September 17, 2011 By Ken Solin 1 Comment

The mentoring relationship between Ken Solin and Armand Castro changed Ken’s life more than he ever could have imagined.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions Tagged With: friendship, Ken Solin, Mentor, mountain biking, teacher, trust

I’ve Never Met a Happy Wimp

July 29, 2011 By Michael Van Osch 21 Comments

Michael Van Osch remembers the incomparable power of the influence of a strong mentor.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions Tagged With: Coach, inspiration, Mentor, mentoring, teacher, What does it mean to be a good man?, wimp

The 10 at 10

March 4, 2011 By Ryan O'Hanlon 1 Comment

Happiness leads to a longer life, Mike Huckabee is crazy, and Jon Stewart isn’t.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog, Newsroom Tagged With: art, Brandon Davies, BYU, cupcakes, Daycare, death, fatigue, happiness, isaiah mustafa, jesus, Jon Stewart, life, meth lab, Mike Huckabee, Muslim, Natalie Portman, Old Spice, rage, teacher, The 10 at 10, voice, Wall Street

The 9th Grade Experiment

June 1, 2010 By Suzanne Rosenwasser 18 Comments

A teacher teams up with her principal to help the school’s most at-risk boys.

Filed Under: Boys, Education Tagged With: Boys, coming of age, Suzanne Rosenwasser, teacher

Hot for Teacher

March 15, 2010 By J.R. Reed 5 Comments

The next thing I knew I was sort of pinned back in the corner of the couch with her almost on top of me. I’d been in Canada about two months and had gone on a few dates. Nothing exceptional, but nothing overly crappy either. After my first attempt at the “Do you have some [...]

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