I’m going to start this post as  I will end it, referring to my recent adventures observing Larry  Ferlazzo’s Theory of Knowledge Class, this week. Why bring up the particular in this discussion of one of the global issues in school reform? Because, at the end of the day, no matter how good an idea […]

Photo credit: bilso’s photostream on Flickr. One of the two Intermediate ELD (English Language Development) classes I cover one morning a week has mid-level ELLs (English Learners), many of whom are reluctant speakers and need a lot of oral language development work, which is a natural for me and the lab. The teacher started out […]

In my prior post (The “Green Line”) I discussed the entrenched position of a lot of the arguments about education and education reform these days.  Here is one of my favorite arguments: Teacher: Your ideas have no basis in research, or the reality where I teach; Reform-y Type: You’re just for the status quo! Really, […]