The Huffington Post – Byron Garrett
“I’ve been travelling all over the country over the past few weeks: wrapping up 2015 with visits to schools and education conferences. We know that at different times of year, it’s easy to lose focus on education and achieving goals: holidays, vacations, distractions seem to be ever-present in our lives: that’s the message I was imparting to students and teachers in Omaha recently. I got the same rounds of questions in Omaha that I get most everywhere else: questions on how to stay motivated, how to find new ways of approaching learning, what emerging technologies there are to help students learn math and reading, but this year, something new came up: school and community safety.”(more)