How can we make education, teaching, and our work with children a "Magic Carpet Ride?" Please watch this clip to see if you can get some hints as to how we can transform the concept of teaching from being a worker on a factory production line (a better, more efficient, higher paying factory line doesn't do much to inspire me either) where specialization on a narrow, narrow piece of the human experience is moved to the teacher being an artist with a canvas and with limitless possibilities of bringing the whole range of human expression alive in the lives of the children and people with whom we interact.
This is my 33rd year in education. Prior to beginning at Luther, I was an elementary teacher, guidance counselor and principal. My wife, Jane, works as a media specialist in the North Winneshiek and Decorah Schools. My oldest son, Nathan, is a graduate student at UCLA and my youngest son, Ben, is a senior at St. Olaf College.