Via Euan I saw this lovely example of how we might think about changing behaviour, not always in the way we'd associate with those in positions of authority. Mind you, I wonder if only the Dutch Police could get away with doing this...
Via Euan I saw this lovely example of how we might think about changing behaviour, not always in the way we'd associate with those in positions of authority. Mind you, I wonder if only the Dutch Police could get away with doing this...
FOR THE LOVE OF READING: Students in River Ridge High's musical theater class create a musical to encourage elementary children to read. (Times photo, Brendan Fitterer)
ANOTHER ACCUSATION: The family of another Walker Middle School student claims their child was repeatedly molested at the school.
ZONING [...]
"I just got flipped off by a gray-haired old lady, who has a ‘Honk If You Love Jesus’ bumper sticker on her car." As I laughed at the song I heard with the network of fellow NPR’s Car Talk fans, I grinned in anticipation of singing the tune [...]
Two big-name Obama administration officials, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Melody Barnes, a top White House education adviser, will be speaking at the Harlem Children's Zone conference in New York.
The speeches will almost certainly showcase the Obama administration's budget proposal to create a Promise Neighborhoods program, which [...]
I'm starting to realize that I LOVE being an advisory teacher. In a job that makes me miserable almost all day every day, it's the part I look forward to most. I love having daily routines, I love seeing little moments of progress week by week. [...] Post written a couple weeks earlier on my papa/family blog.
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Just a 1/2 day here on campus on this lovely late-October Friday.
Homecoming is here. Classes ended at lunch. Life is good.
Beckett -- back on campus in his preschool for the first time in a full week -- came over to [...]
FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE: Hillsborough elementary students build marble roller coasters and more in their Science Olympics. (Times photo, Skip O'Rourke)
GRANTED: Seventy Pinellas teacher win grants to help them pursue new, nontraditional methods in their classrooms.
GRADUATE: US Veterans Affairs secretary Eric Shinseki tells' [...]
--Rhoda Janzen's new memoir, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress. Offered by publisher, accepted because I'm related to some lovely Mennonites in little black dresses.
--Michael Cox's The Meaning of Night. Never read any Cox. Part of my search for reincarnations of Wilkie Collins.
--Daphne Du Maurier's
I love watching Jon Stewart's continued picking apart of the bias in cable TV news, notably in Fox (the YouTube clips should suffice as explanation). Now, Seth talks about how Cable TV News' attitudes can be seen in any board room around the [...]
Dear Deborah,
What a lovely tribute to Ted Sizer! I did not know Ted nearly as well as you did, but I admired him very much. He was very much the gentleman, and truly a gentle man. I had many disagreements with Jerry Bracey over the years; [...]
Thanks to our introduction by Marco Torres a couple of weeks ago in Maine for ACTEM09, I’m in love with the iPhone application Pano. For more about why I love this program and some other examples, see my October posts, “Easy iPhone Panoramic photos with Pano” [...]
This projector (used for advertising in the airport in Minneapolis/St Paul) is the most interactive one I’ve encountered to date!
Wouldn’t the students in your classroom love this… I’m sure they could think of some creative ways to use this interactive technology!
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Sorry folks but after all our efforts our Moturoa class blog did not win the New Zealand Class Blog Awards. I feel gutted as we love our blog as it is a pivotal part of our on-line learning and great way to link class to family and to [...]
BoardBuzz loves to see students getting involved in their own education. And we have a real soft spot for student school board members. So we were really pleased with this video that NSBA put together after interviewing student school board leaders at the NSBA Conference in April. Check it out [...]
Most people love snow days. And for those that don't, this article from Lifehacker may help you forget you're even swallowed up in your apartment or dorm. There are some tips that'll help you stay connected with your work and being adept at how your' [...]
U.S. students don’t excel on PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), but it may not be the best test, writes Jay Mathews on Class Struggle. He cites a math question for 15-year-olds highlighted by Brookings Institution scholar Tom Loveless, a member of the U.S. advisory board to PISA:
For a rock [...]
Chris Harbeck's class blog hub (innovator par excellence!)
Ryan Maksymchuk's suite of class blogs (more scribing class blogs than you can shake [...]
