Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) is a pocket-sized fable whose deceptive simplicity disguises a finely tuned moral and aesthetic practice. Written for children yet animated by the author’s keen observational eye, the tale endures because it compresses a complex set of cultural anxieties — discipline and transgression, class and rural economics, the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Reviews – The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher reads like a concentrated experiment in atmosphere: a short story that refuses to be small, folding psychological pathology, architectural metaphor, and sonic lyricism into a single, inexorable collapse. Poe does not so much tell a tale as stage an experience — one in which language, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Revisionist Poetry – The Lay of Copernicus Wiffledown (in iambic tetrameter), v.5
The town still speaks his gentle name,a man of coin and quiet care.He kept a pouch of folded things,and sent them out like softened prayer. They called him Scrooge when snow was thick,not for a sting, but for his lists.He tallied ribbons, numbered bows,and waited for his chosen wrists. That once his pockets had been … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – The Lay of Copernicus Wiffledown (in iambic tetrameter), v.5
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” reads like a virtuoso exercise in controlled obsession. In a compact, theatrical narrative of no more than a few hundred lines, Poe engineers an atmosphere so resonant that the poem’s central motifs—loss, memory, and the unanswering voice of doom—saturate the reader long after the final refrain. It is less a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Revisionist Poetry – The Lay of Copernicus Wiffledown (comedic), v.4
Copernicus Wiffledown was much admired—a well-to-do gentleman with a bulging pouchlike a squirrel’s briefcase, stuffed with oddments:a clock that ran backwards for sentimental people,a rubber chicken for emergencies, a mitten with a pocket,and tins of biscuits stamped “For Immediate Surprise.” They called him the Christmas-Day Scrooge—not for stinginess but for his solemn inventory:he kept a … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – The Lay of Copernicus Wiffledown (comedic), v.4
Revisionist Pedagogy – Empowering Educators: Revolutionizing Teacher Training with Critical Theory
Critical theory equips teacher education with a principled, practice-oriented framework for preparing educators who can recognize and disrupt inequitable power structures in schools and society. When paired with culturally relevant pedagogy and sustained, practice-based professional learning, critical theory does more than motivate ethical teaching: it produces measurable shifts in instructional practice, curriculum design, and teacher … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Empowering Educators: Revolutionizing Teacher Training with Critical Theory
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart is a study in compression: a few pages of prose that map, with surgical precision, the anatomy of guilt. Unlike long Gothic romances that luxuriate in setting and backstory, Poe offers a single, claustrophobic motion — the narrator’s descent from confident rationalization into seizure-like confession — and trusts that … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Revisionist Poetry – The Lay of Copernicus Wiffledown (finished), v.3
Copernicus Wiffledown was much admired—a well-to-do gentleman who kept a pouchof wrapped surprises beneath his coat:a mitten for a red-nosed passerby,a loaf slipped through a shuttered window,a bright tin soldier for a child who’d lost one. They called him the Christmas-Day Scrooge—not because he grudged, but because he counted:each gift catalogued, each ribbon given a … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – The Lay of Copernicus Wiffledown (finished), v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is often taught as the archetype of the short, perfectly executed revenge tale; read closely, it is also a miniature philosophical probe into pride, performative identity, and the moral elasticity permitted by first-person confession. In under 3,000 words Poe stages a slow, elegant murder that doubles as a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The New Renaissance Mindset 