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Education Blog
This blog serves as a collection of my thoughts and creations that I have produced throughout the course of my professional teaching and learning journey.
Mary Verberg
Jul 23, 20238 min read
Beautiful Beginnings
"It is in endings that we discover some of the most beautiful and meaningful beginnings." -Dhiman . . . In about four weeks, I will be...
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Mary Verberg
Jun 13, 20233 min read
Delve Unceasingly
"It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly" - Claude Monet . . . As...
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Mary Verberg
Jan 4, 20237 min read
My Theory of Learning
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin . . . What is Learning? Learning is the...
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Mary Verberg
Jul 21, 20222 min read
Fostering Inquiry in the Classroom
"The best you can hope to have is a good compass to guide you. The ones who understand that -- and can embrace that -- are going to have...
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Mary Verberg
Jul 20, 20225 min read
A Wicked Problem: Teacher Burnout, Shortages, and Retention
"The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade" - David Price . . . According to a...
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Mary Verberg
Jul 20, 20223 min read
Diversity = Strength
“In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” - Maya Angelou . . . One of the biggest parts of education that I am passionate...
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Mary Verberg
Jul 18, 20223 min read
Biggest Takeaways of My Masters Program So Far
"We argue that TPCK is the basis of effective teaching with technology and requires an understanding of the representation of concepts...
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Mary Verberg
Jul 6, 20223 min read
Covid in Replay
"Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton . . . I have spent some time...
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Mary Verberg
Jun 30, 20221 min read
Education Reimagined: Teaching in a Post-Pandemic World
"The coronavirus pandemic upended almost every aspect of school at once. It was not just the move from classrooms to computer screens. It...
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Mary Verberg
Jun 30, 20223 min read
How People Learn
"We learn more from the people who are different from us than ones who are the same." - Andy Hargreaves . . . Recently I read parts of...
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Mary Verberg
Jun 29, 20222 min read
Education & Mindsets
"Everything is hard before it is easy." - Goethe J.W . . . At the very beginning of my journey through Michigan State University's Master...
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