Life Skills as a Professional Learning Community

Suppose you were asked to be a part of a group whose primary task was TO LEARN FROM EACH OTHER such that you not only became better teachers, but were able to show demonstrable increases in student performance in the classes you teach? Suppose for once, your task wasn’t to attend a meeting that [...]

Life Skills Curriculum: To Be or Not to Be?

For the past 3 years there has been a concerted effort to increase the quality of Life Skill courses, teaching, and program uniformity across the district.  We have made great progress in all of these areas.  Great things are happening.  In February, we met and began generating a list of resources we often use in [...]

Frequent the Bean Scene

Hi everyone. Next time you are near Broadway and Penn, stop by the Bean Scene and support this coffee shop with your patronage. They are providing an excellent CBVT experience to South students and to WH Davis (I think). They are actively training students in restaurant skills including some experience in food [...]

Instant Updates Available

Did you know that you can get an automatic update when this website has been added to? If you have an RSS reader you can use this link to get your automatic update. If you don’t know what an RSS reader is, ask your media specialist if your school computer has this software [...]

Care to Share?

A major purpose of this blog is for Life Skill Teachers to share resources with each other. Toward that end, if you have an assignment that you’ve created on an original document (such as on Microsoft Word), then feel free to email it to me at james.barnhill@mpls. . . . and tell me what [...]

On Your Mark, Get Set, Go

On March 3, 2006, Life Skills teachers from the entire MPLS district came together to begin a concerted effort to develop a districtwide transition based curriculum. The efforts begun that day led us in the right direction, but were merely a start to this critical effort. This website is an effort to allow Life Skills [...]