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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A Teacher’s Manifesto

The Journal of At-Risk Issues, Winter/Spring 1996

“Designing Learning Which Cures
Rather Than Causes Academic Risk”

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