Author - Don Pogreba

Don Pogreba is a current writer and retired teacher of English, Social Studies and Debate, and a loyal, if often sad, fan of the San Diego Padres and Portland Timbers. When he is not traveling, he is working on his classroom web site or dreaming about another adventure.

Wyoming, May 2017

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Washington D.C. April 2017

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On Critical Pedagogy by Henry Giroux

In spite of the professional pretense to neutrality, academics need to do more pedagogically than simply teach students how to be adept at forms of argumentation. Students need to argue and question, but they need much more from their educational experience. The pedagogy of argumentation in and of itself guarantees nothing but it is an...

Monday Morning Mental Mix for May 15, 2017

We are teaching kids how to write all wrong — and no, Mr. Miyagi’s rote lessons won’t help a bit–Knowing this might make one tempted to give up altogether. Perhaps it’s simply impossible to teach students to write in today’s world. Maguire suggests we have indeed given up on the task, claiming that the “composition profession...

Monday Morning Mental Mix May 8, 2017

Malcolm Gladwell on Why We Shouldn’t Value Speed Over Power–Not even Roger Federer could be a great tennis player without a coach, without a place to go and play tennis, without parents who drive him there. Roger Federer, for years, was known for having a terrible temper. At the beginning of his career he was thought to be someone...