(I started my career as an English teacher at Providence Day School in the fall of 1988. The previous summer I worked at Camp Pinnacle in Hendersonville, NC. My experiences as a rock-climbing instructor had a profound impact on how I view teaching. Devil’s Courthouse, so named by the Cherokee who inhabited this region of […]
The Haywood Gap Stream Discovery
View from Tennent Mountain of Black Balsam, Mount Hardy and Little Sam’s Knob (Ross Peters) In the summer of 2000 I drove into Pisgah National Forest almost everyday. Living in Asheville, NC at the time, I decided I would focus 6-12 mile walks in those parts of Pisgah that I either hadn’t been in a […]
The Role Models We Need For Our Students
If this teacher-as-silo approach was ever a good teaching strategy, those days are gone.
Scholarship as the Antidote to the Addiction of Comfort
(After a brief welcome, I gave these remarks earlier this evening at the National Honor Society and Cum Laude Induction Ceremony at The Westminster Schools.) If I told you that I could take you to a place right now where every desire you ever have, EVERY DESIRE YOU EVER HAVE, […]
Finally!–A Name for my Blog
From http://www.psdgraphics.com/backgrounds/blank-world-map/ Last week I finally gave my blog a name–Ross All Over The Map. Since starting it almost two months ago I have simply called it Ross’ Blog in part because giving it a real name might obligate me to keep it up for the long term and in part because I could not think of […]
Some Thoughts Regarding Seamless Digital Integration
In a conversation by a neighborhood pool on a recent Saturday evening in Atlanta, I found myself trying to put language to something I have been troubled by for some time. As we find technology integration becoming more and more seamless, and as information becomes increasingly integrated through the funnel […]