Reflections on Teaching

Recently I shared the situation at my school, which is set to lose 6 out of 22 teachers (actually 6 out of 17 classroom teachers) in Pink slips, we don’t need no freakin’ pink slips… @ In Practice
I wish I could say my trip to a district budget sub-committee meeting helped, but my folks who [...]

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I’m testing out Google forms so I thought I’d create a questionnaire about my blog. Help me test Google forms and give me feedback on this blog:

or here:
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Sorry dear readers that I have not been writing about what I’ve been doing with students recently. A number of things have conspired against this. First, I’ve been administering state tests (I have a small group doing the modified assessment). My big project that I’m finishing up is the Revolutionary War Timeline project. That has [...]

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Looks like I’ll be attending the DEN Summer Institute at Silver Spring, MD. I’m probably one of the few to get STAR status at almost the same time (I’ve been slow to turn in my paperwork!).

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Brian Crosby has been on a tear lately with a couple of fantastic posts on poverty in education. First up is Whose Problem Is Poverty? | In Practice where he builds on ASCD: Whose Problem is Poverty by R. Rothstein about how school reform is being used in lieu of an anti-poverty policy. That we [...]

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Because Instructify, has asked me to join them in bringing Web 2.0 to the teaching masses (in nice 200-300 word bites).
First post will be revealed on Monday. Wish me luck!

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Lo and behold I had one of those moments today. Administrators in my state are required to undergo technology training to renew their licenses, and my principal is in the midst of that training right now.
First, I had a great audience. As wonderful as he is,  my principal has a very quick mind, and really [...]

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This is part of a series of related articles on Kindergarten, policy, and the achievement gap that started out for me at In Practice.

TMAO talks about how poor education quality is turning kids off from school, but in reflecting on kindergarten readiness lately, and how some kids are behind from the start I wanted to [...]

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