Hawke Talke

If you're curious, you can read my preamble to this project here . I subscribe to the philosophy that simpler is almost always bette...

This is the first of two posts responding to an online course graciously taught by the inimitable Dave Levin through Coursera. It has been ...

At Elm City College Prep Middle School, as at most Achievement First schools, we spend a lot of time thinking about teacher development. As ...

What follows is an interview with myself. Q: This idea of interviewing yourself - it seems pretty vain. You probably think this interview...

Think of the following: What is/was your grandfather like? (If you are or were lucky enough to have known two, pick one.) Who was your be...

In early July, I taught our kids to play chess. Barbara thought it was OK, but Sebastian ate it up. He now asks to play chess all the time  ...

My face-to-face and phone-to-phone conversations about Achievement First tend to become a love-fest of sorts...there is so much thoughtful s...