Essential Teaching and Learning

                                                                    © 2025 Scott Freiberger This article is dedicated to my youngest brother Todd "Fantastic,” who lived life the way most of us can only dream, full of adventure, joy, kindness, and an unrelenting desire to leave the world better than he found it. Todd believed that learning was not only something to be done in classrooms or on paper, but it was also a lifelong pursuit, an attitude, and a way of being. He embraced the world with open arms, eager to share what he learned and inspire others to do the same. His philosophy was simple yet profound:  “As long as you're always learning, you're always winning.” To...

(C) 2021 Scott Freiberger. Design by @KimARichardson.  By Scott B. Freiberger In the emotive, making-of-the-mammal Disney movie “Zootopia,” protagonist and officer extraordinaire Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) endures bad badgering, abundant bullying, and beastly berating while aspiring to become the city’s first crowned cottontail cop.   Yet despite uncivil circumstances and a series of exhausting encounters with furtive fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), she perennially persists, prods, and pushes on.   Ultimately, our flocculent, furry friend finds collaborators in questionable quarters and encounters rapport and responsiveness in virtuous vertebrate.   At its core, the moving movie is a celebration of inclusion and resolution, and teaches that appearances may not only be ambiguous, but also absolutely inaccurate.   The noble notion of employing empathy, kindling kindness, and trying tenderness to focus forward could also be acutely accentuated now in educati...

                                    Delve into delicious options with online professional development.                                                       Photo credit: (c) 2004 Scott Freiberger . By Scott B. Freiberger A commitment to lifelong learning may be a hallmark of the vast majority of effective school administrators and well-regarded, erudite educators, yet targeted training to improve teaching skills and improve best educational practices has not always been the paradigm in our field.  Best practices in education were largely influenced by resear...