Building Leadership Capacity: To ASCD Chicago…and Beyond!
by Ryan Land Last spring at one of our Leadership Team meetings (comprised of principal, vice principals, department heads), I pitched the idea of a trip to Chicago to attend ASCD’s 2010 Teaching and...
View ArticlePresident Obama & Women: Remarkable Achievements
On the day that President Obama took office he signed the Lilly Ledbetter bill, ensuring equal pay for women. This was only the beginning of what has become an unprecedented track record of...
View ArticleDeath of a Saint
Ansaf Aziz, a young woman with sparkling eyes and intelligence from Upper Egypt fell in love with her English teacher, married him and moved to Assuit, where she would give birth to three extraordinary...
View ArticleThe Great Topeka Tornado of June 8, 1966
Unlike the tragic victims of the Oklahoma tornadoes, we were safe. Our housing development in suburban Topeka was built at the foot of Burnett’s Mound, an Indian burial ground named after Potawatomi...
View ArticleI was Sexually Harassed in Cairo, but…
The recent data on sexual harassment, attacks, rapes, and death of women in Egypt is deeply disturbing. It is as though the Islamist ascendency has awakened the fury against women under the thin patina...
View ArticleArab Press reviews The Cairo Codex
The Cairo Codex This page-turner will keep you on the edge of your seat! Dr. Justine Jenner, an anthropologist and daughter of an Egyptian mother and an American archeologist father is sent to Cairo...
View ArticleNorman Mailer calls it “Faction”
Having now written three historical novels—the third in manuscript form: A Rapture of Ravens: Awakening in Taos—readers pose the inevitably question: What part is fact? What part fiction? Mailer calls...
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