Public School Parents

• The role of parents in the classroom

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  Scott McLeod posted an interesting series of videos of kids baiting teachers. There is plenty of discussion on the comments page; the majority of which thought that the kids were way out of line and should be punished. Dy/Dan had some interesting thoughts on it too. A bunch [...]
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  Posted: March 10, 2008, 10:17pm EDT
  by Ben Fulton

• Opening classrooms

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  Scott Elias wrote an article on how classrooms are isolated from public scrutiny, and commented that administrators need to be up and walking around in order to minimize this. When I read it, I just had to ask how classrooms can become more open to the outsiders who have [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2007, 10:57pm EDT
  by Ben Fulton

• Designing Wiser

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  Kevin Makice has started a series on Designing Wiser, sort of the application to his field of study of a workshop by early childhood educator Bev Bos. (Should be interesting, but be careful following that link if you use Internet Explorer as the site is temperamental). Part 1 concerns [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2007, 10:25pm EDT
  by Ben Fulton

• What should be done about digital citizenship?

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  Cool Cat Teacher, who is constantly enticing me to respond to her posts, is at it again with her discussion of digital citizenship and literacy, and the difficult question of teaching kids how to evaluate what they read on the internet. One thing she doesn't really discuss, except' [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2007, 11:12pm EDT
  by Ben Fulton

• Classroom backchannels

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  Cool Cat Teacher is installing a backchannel in her classroom. I love this. They don't even do this at most of the conferences I go to. But it is an amazing tool for people who are more comfortable with' [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2007, 12:49pm EDT
  by Ben Fulton

• Fundraising

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  So here's the deal: in order to get the school library some new books, we parents are supposed to participate in a fundraiser. We've been given a couple of catalogs of items that we're supposed to buy or talk our friends, grandparents, parents' coworkers, or other folks into buying in [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2007, 9:52pm EDT
  by Ben Fulton

• First two weeks of school

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  are finished. Since I wrote my first post on this blog back in June, I've been poking around the education scene. There are certainly quite a few teachers out there with really good web sites and ways to keep parents updated on what the kids are doing in school, but' [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2007, 9:05pm EDT
  by Ben Fulton

• And so, the adventure begins

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  My five-year-old just got the official letter in the mail: they ran a lottery and we now have the privilege of forking over $1800 to the public school system to send him to full-day kindergarten.
  
  Is it worth it? I'm very ambivalent. Check out my post here to' [...]
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  Posted: June 08, 2007, 8:23pm EDT
  by Ben Fulton