Reflections on Teaching

The Great Debate
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RESOLVED: Brick and mortar schools are detrimental to learning.
This was not much of a “debate” since one of the guys who argued the affirmative didn’t find [...]

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…with this tweet from Dan Meyer announcing he’s been laid off, RIFed, pink slipped, axed, etc.

Twitter / Dan Meyer: If you’re called into an e …

…and this response from Will Richardson, which strikes me as funny/sweet given the riding Dan’s given him in the past:

Twitter / Will Richardson: @ddmeyer Sorry to hear tha …

Notices will [...]

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It’s time for me to reflect on the, thankfully, outgoing administration. If you don’t like my politics post, I’d suggest skipping this one.
My favorite (unintentional) visual commentary on NCLB:

NCinDC’s Photostream on Flickr
My favorite commentary on the Iraq War based on spin from the same folks that brought us the “Texas Miracle“:

The Daily Show With Jon [...]

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It’s not too often that I find something that lets me revisit two very different posts, but here it is…
I listened to a fascinating This American Life: Ruining it for the rest of us which had a great segment (number one) on what happened in San Diego when there was an outbreak of measles that [...]

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The family and I took a trip to San Francisco to meet up with the husband’s family this weekend, so that dominated our schedule. The first part of the trip was to the Dickens Christmas Faire, a local institution that Terry and his sister have attended for years, but I [...]

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/zesmerelda/451715214/
“Mistakes were made” is an expression that is commonly used as a rhetorical device, whereby a speaker acknowledges that a situation was handled poorly or inappropriately but seeks to evade any direct admission or accusation of responsibility by using the passive voice. — Wikipedia
Warning, this post will contain no material directly related to teaching.
What a [...]

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The week was choke full of stuff and had a good start, but ended with me getting a nasty upper respiratory infection which I’m still nursing.
Fifth Grade
Work continued on election ads. I had a whole long list of ads to get through, but got to just the first three on this list (which were from [...]

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Wednesday January 30, 2008 in a Sentence
Today was an inverse sh*t sandwich: my desktop o/s was fried last night when the server crashed, so I had to be reimaged; the school day went great; I got my cell phone lost/stolen at the end of the day.
Tuesday January 29, 2008 in a Sentence
The high today was [...]

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