The Ignatian Educator

Last week as regular readers know I asked people to recommend works in the field of spiritual autobiography or any book essay article in the genre of ldquo faith journey rdquo I supplied my initial list and I asked for additional selections both within the Roman Catholic Tradition and without

Dear Readers I need your depth and insight I 39 m working on a project for both my teaching and writing and for it I need a list of readings in the field of spiritual autobiography Because of that I 39 m asking for your recommendations It could be a book an essay or an article anything re

When I was in grade- and high school math was my arch-intimidator I didn 39 t enjoy it and at some point I decided I wasn 39 t a quot math person quot It felt like a game I couldn 39 t master In English and history and all the subjects that called for weighing and balancing and writing I

“Thinking of education in terms of planting seeds invites me to pray for a saintly kind of patience.”

October brings the World Series and Halloween and for teachers it rsquo s that mid-semester point when we accept that our school year will not go as planned The syllabus has gone through a couple revisions the course calendar has been reworked and we start to hear the footprints of December rsq

As readers of this blog know I 39 ve addressed some of the ways that students are harming themselves and others through the destructive use of Facebook Twitter and other forms of social media These same concerns were the subject of a controversial op-ed in yesterday 39 s Wall Street Journal Th

Last week while discussing the Common Core State Standards CCSS I wrote that whether quot people oppose or support the CCSS conversations reflect the same assumptions that mark most proposals for education reform The implicit idea seems to be nbsp that if we just had a certain program or idea

The latest post from Matt Emerson at our new blog, ‘The Ignatian Educator’