30 Aug 2012
I’ve heard of an old military saying: “Amateurs talk strategy, dilettantes talk tactics and professionals talk logistics.” It’s not clear who said it first (perhaps Gen. Omar Bradley), but that doesn’t make it any less true. In the classroom, you can have phenomenal content knowledge (strategy), amazing lesson plans (tactics), but if you don’t have [...]
24 Aug 2012
That red hat on the first day of school should have been a clue. On the first days of the school year, students introduce themselves, but with their personas in full effect — the image they want to project to the world. But at some point, the masks fall. Only then can we get to know [...]
20 Aug 2012
Not long ago, someone following the WW Teaching Fellowship on Facebook posted this question to our wall: “Any suggestions to a potential applicant? Really looking for a positive career change from being a corporate scientist.” Every year the opening of the WW Teaching Fellows competition —and yes, the application is now open—inspires hundreds of phone [...]
10 Aug 2012
Talk about world-class. While the 2012 Summer Olympics have shown the world some amazing swimmers, the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships have their own world-class swimmer: Melissa Karjala. On July 27, Melissa, who’s a 2011 W.K. Kellogg Foundation-Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellow, helped set a new world record for a two-way crossing of the English Channel [...]