I was presenting to a group of educators a few weeks back when a collection of words popped up in a distinctly unpleasant order: We don’t have that population here. I flinched when I heard it because the word that was said in the tone that it all too often is, as if it stood […]
The Art of Error Correction
A couple of years ago, I asked a student sitting across from me to give me the sound for the letter a. In educator speak, that means that I wanted her to give me the sound that a makes in a word like “cat”. I watched as she processed my request and started to form […]