In the winter of 1968-69, I was asked by a friend to spend a weekend with him and his parents at their family’s vacation condo near Mammoth Mountain, California. The snow total for that year was extreme, as nearly 40 feet of the white stuff fell there that winter. I remember 20 foot walls of
A father was taking his two middle-school-aged sons out scouting for deer in the fall. By profession the father was a logger in Northern Oregon. On their drive into the woods, the father received a phone call and was asked to drive by his company’s logging site to check on a controlled fire that was
My colleague recently attended a meeting of school officials from around the state discussing approaches to solving problems in schools suffering the greatest academic distress. Lots of ideas were shared, considered, and dismissed. Consensus came when a superintendent stood up and pitched a program his former district had employed. At no point during the superintendent’s