Reflections on Teaching

Okay, in a bid to finally use “numbers” in my “annual report“, I’ve done this for my birthday:

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I was there all three days of the rebuild. I can’t see how we’ll be able to do it again. I just want to curl up and cry…

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Another crazy-arse week for me. As you can see I’ve been keeping a low online profile, which dates back to the week before. I don’t know if I’ve shared about what a crazy place, in a good way, that I work at. Lots of stuff happening all the time. These last few weeks were even [...]

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I’m sorry, that circuit is busy
Okay, here is the point where I need to recognize commentors on my blog and say thank you for helping me make connections, and for helping make my blog a better place.
First up, Ken Rodoff, who blogs at the why of it all. He laments that he is one of [...]

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I began to realize that my old mobile phone (limited to texting, and calling, 0-9 keyboard, no camera, no MP3) was not hacking it in the last 6 months. I began to look longingly at mobile PDAs, etc. I also hated going out to a fun and photograph worthy event with son, and having this [...]

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I will not be able to participate on a daily basis, or anything close to that as the school year winds down, but I did want to take some time to reflect on some of my online conversations, since there are some interesting and complex discussions underway…
It started with Clay Burrell’s post, Muhammad Ali: A [...]

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Continuing the discussion about what (poor) African American kids need (but this could apply to any kid in the “have-not” group), I started with this video from Bloggingheads.tv where Debra Dickerson (Mother Jones) shares that she wants to have schools in the black community become so good that whites want to go there.
I think this [...]

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Clay Burrell has a very popular post that has generated a huge number of comments at Muhammad Ali: A D- Student? Or an F- School? | Beyond School
And teachers – English teachers, especially, but any teacher using writing to assess understanding and merit in your classrooms – ask yourself, in this age of user-created video [...]

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