As you can see by the lack of activity I’ve taken a hiatus from the Cookie Cutter. As I put the finishing touches on my M.Ed thesis I hope that trend will be reversed. I have so much that I would like to say about education but have had to work to stay focused on [...]

I recently heard that Vladimir Putin has proposed to define a 100 book, definitive canon of Russian literature that all students must read before they can graduate. Beyond the somewhat disturbing nature of this proposal, it got me thinking about conformity and deviance within education.

In my everyday teaching practice I find [...]

A lifetime ago I worked in sales for a small consulting firm that specialized in business intelligence software. My job was to sell Cognos (now owned by IBM) software licenses to retail companies. For the record, I was a horrible salesman… and that was with a great product that I believed in!

The product was [...]

I had one of those classes this week.

You know, the ones where the conversation veers off on a tangent, takes a backflip, lands and runs on to another series of tangents. We were all over the map that day.

I love conversation. I love learning through conversation. Often I find that I learn a [...]