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“Hey Smartass!” No one gets to mess with my market share!
This just in from a slightly panicked vendor of teaching resources: Hi everyone! I’ve been asked to coin a derogatory term for my detractors to


“Hey Dumbass!” The marketing problem in the Reading Wars
A report on Dr. Steven Dykstra’s talk at The Reading League Third Annual Conference in Syracuse on October 19th 2019. In his biographical notes on


A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: Part One of The Reading League 2019 conference debrief
That was the cry of the 900+ educators from all over the world who converged in Syracuse, New York this week for The Reading League’s


A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: Part Two of The Reading League 2019 conference debrief
Emily Hanford sure is a hard act to follow (see part one). Luckily, those who did follow were outstanding. Conferences are always a joy, but


Through a Faulty Lens
I once met a woman at a conference who seemed very nice. It was a big conference and comprised many of the leading lights in


Canaries in the Coalmine: Insights from private tuition
Being an independent specialist practitioner affords me a unique view. We’re all working in a coal mine, but I’m the one who looks after the