Viewpoints

Frans Johansson appears larger than life on stage at the NSBA Tech and Learning conference in Denver. Stalking the platform, his pent-up energy explodes in staccato- punctuated sentences and rhetorical questions to an audience of educators from a ...Read More

  I attended a child’s funeral today, a silent witness to a community’s mourning one of our young.  Parents come with Carson’s baseball teammates, his Scouting buddies, and his third-grade classmates. Mothers with daughters. Fathers and sons. The he...Read More

Slipstreaming works for Lance Armstrong and Jeff Burton, both intentionally use it to conserve personal energy or gain fuel economy in competitive racing. Aircraft designers and pilots have a significant “need to know” and understand slipstream effec...Read More

I spent Saturday morning observing a 5-lined skink skitter across the patio in search of breakfast, back and forth, slipping in and out of the stone wall. Overhead, a crystal-sky laminated the slightest of breezes.  In the air, the distinct scream of...Read More

As I enter another year as superintendent, the growing power of “today” and “tomorrow” expressed through the voices of Albemarle’s educators delights me. Their presence as a team of people who are passionate about their work with young people touches...Read More