Articles
Encouraging Children to Resolve the Past, Trust the Future, Live the Present
Paths of Learning, Autumn 2004
Excerpt from Classroom Management: Dance of the Dolphin
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A Friend by the Side of the Road
Paths of Learning, Summer 2004
“Life, and learning as a part of it, is not an assembly line…”
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Does America Love its Children?
Paths of Learning, Winter 2003
Learning from Jarvis Jay Masters,
a death row inmate in San Quentin
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A Day (off) in the Life of a Teacher
Paths of Learning, Winter 2002
“Why do I do this? Because I can’t find anything more rewarding than to work with kids.”
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Reversing the Cycle of Despair
Reaching Today’s Youth, Volume 5 Issue2, Winter 2001
An alternative to violence-focused responses
to troubled youth.
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Today, I’d Probably Just Drop Out
Paths of Learning, Summer 2001
“I’m afraid I won’t pass the high school competency exam.”
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Building the Bridge to Hope with the Four Ws of Learning and Life
Reaching Today’s Youth, Volume 4 Issue 4, Summer 2000
“Life, and learning as a part of it, is not an assembly line…”
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Elephants and Adolescents
The Journal of Court, Community, and Alternative Schools, Spring 1999
“That’s right, adolescent elephants were running amok
and killing adult white rhinos.”
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