When I first started teaching in 2009, I was surprised by something that was missing from my classroom: We did not have any textbooks for the courses that I was supposed to teach. For the next 4 years, I worked hard handcrafting all of the...
A plethora of important issues regarding public education vie for attention today. This makes it difficult to choose one thing that I, as a veteran teacher, would change to improve education. However, after combining my own musings with what Katherine Bassett, the Executive Director of the...
It would be a mistake to think my job only entails the dissemination of diagrams and the creation of mnemonic devices to remember the order of the planets. As a science teacher, my job is to enable students to discover their world through the scientific method....
With the current political climate and gridlock, I find it natural to wonder if our nation will emerge from this pit we have seemed to dive into. It is easy to read and watch the media, and thus become very cynical at the process for...
In its 2001 seminal report “Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21rst Century”, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) described the current state of health care delivery. The report described a health care system that was fragmented, poorly designed and most importantly...
As health care evolves, so has the nursing profession. Advanced Practice Registered Nursing (APRN), an umbrella term to include the 4 roles of advanced practice nurses, have been expanding at a rapid rate. There are over 250,500 APRNs in the country, according to the recently...
A prohibition was lifted on human dissection in 3rd century Greece, under one condition, that the anatomists not involve themselves with the corpse’s soul. Body and soul at the time were considered separate entities, thus, the medical model was born. The focus on the symptom...