In Defense of Reading
Every now and then I run into someone who, upon finding out that I am a literacy researcher, patiently explains to me […]
Author: Bill Boerman-Cornell
Top Ten Books for This Summer to Remind You What Rocks About Reading
1. Fleischman, Paul. Whirligig. New York: Macmillan, 1998. My friend Kim has recently returned to the joy of reading. This one is especially […]
Voices of bullying
Dr. Bill Boerman-Cornell and two of his students at Trinity Christian College, Matt Mulder and Kaitlyn Manning, asked other Trinity students […]
Assessment Obsession and Evaluation Idolization
When educational policy makers first caught assessment fever from the business world some twenty years ago, like many teachers, I assumed it […]
Ten Restful Books to Get Your Imagination Working Again This Summer
Every year seems to bring more demands upon teachers. We need to realign to the common core standards, remap our courses to […]
Top Ten Books Every Christian Educator Should Read (According to One Book Lover, Anyway)
Teaching is hard work. It doesn’t seem reasonable that teachers should be required, in addition to all the lesson planning, grading, communicating […]
Top Ten Books (Not about Teaching) to Renew You This Summer (According to One Book Lover, Anyway)
I am always amazed when I hear about teachers who belong to book clubs during the school year. My amazing wife, who […]
Ten Books to Revive Teachers This Summer
Teaching is important, but exhausting work. In addition to being a time for revising lesson plans, rethinking units, and engaging in professional […]
Adventures in Project-Based Learning
I figured it would be a pretty easy thing to do. About eight years ago, I began teaching a college course called […]