The @DavidGeurin Blog

It's been said the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Let's add one to the list. We can be certain there will...

In this instant everything world we live in, it seems like life is moving faster than ever. It's a text, tweet, Tic-Tok world for...

Is it more professional to teach in a traditional manner, the way you remember your teachers teaching you?  Or, is it more profession...

Last Christmas, we decided to add a new Boston Terrier puppy to our family. His name is Rudy. There have been many times over the past mo...

If you want to learn and grow and make a greater impact, it's essential to be a productive risk taker. Not all risks are productive o...

When you think about your students, what stories are you telling yourself about them? I've been guilty of buying into limiting storie...

Most of what is learned in the traditional approach to school is not adaptable learning. It is discrete learning. It's focused on a ...

I'm a big advocate of positive and productive change. If one thing is certain, it's change. There will be change, and we must ad...

As the school year winds down, what is your school doing to recognize students? It's really common at this time of year to have awar...

We recently held commencement for the graduates of the Bolivar High School Class of 2018. I always like to provide a few words of enc...

Last night I watched the film, Lincoln ,  starring Daniel Day Lewis as the 16th U.S. President. It was great to finally see it. I'm...

We have a basic speech class that we require just about every student in our school to take. It's not a graduation requirement, but o...

I'm interested in how educators can help students develop resilience and problem solving. On the one hand, students need to develop ...

In a previous post , I shared about the power of keystone habits. The ideas are based on the book The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do...

A teacher at one of our elementary schools shared this recently. She was talking about how she encourages her students to persist in the...

What stands in the way of a brighter future and better schools?  Well, mostly people.  People who tell others they can't or won&...