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Connecting the Dots in Florida: Inside SB6′s Players
The numerous connections between businesses, political players, and the current brand of education reform makes for a conspiracy theorist’s candy shop. Unfortunately, its hard to chalk the such theories up to an overactive imagination once the relationships are exposed. I received the below response and link resources from a Florida parent/teacher/SB6 opponent concerning the myriad [...]
Continue reading...How to Use Classroom Assessment Techniques in Your Classroom
2. April 2010
Nathan Grimm is a full time program manager for SR Education Group, a organization that helps professionals make wise education choices through online degrees and online college reviews. You can follow me on Twitter @n8ngrimm. Joe Bower just did a great post questioning the educational system’s current emphasis on summative assessment techniques. He raises some [...]
Continue reading...Critical Transformations: 15 Tools
10. March 2010
Major seismic shifts can transform educators, and by proxy, instruction. However, more often than not, it’s just the opposite. Here are 15 implementable small steps that lead to transformation.
Continue reading...11 Olympic Resources to Bring the Games to Your Classroom
9. February 2010
Here is a collection of links to resources for bringing the Winter Olympics into your classroom. Twitter hashtags: #Olympics, #Vancouver, #WinterOlympics, #Vancouver2010, #OlympicGames, OG2010, #WinterGames Olympic dot org, the official website of the Olympic movement. Videos, looks ahead, looks behind, peeks into the workings of the IOC. This link connects to the Vancouver porthole. Resources [...]
Continue reading...Plate Tectonics Power Point
20. January 2010
With the recent Earthquakes (and ensuing devastation in Haiti), a number of teachers are working to help their students make sense of the events — both from humanitarian and geographical perspectives. A good friend of mine, Dr. Todd Albert, a climatologist and geography professor, created this power point presentation on Plate Tectonics a few years [...]
Continue reading...ASCD Annual Conference Media Registration
20. January 2010
ASCD continues to maintain its leading edge approach to technology, media, and social networking by embracing the myriad means educators have for creating, cultivating, and corroborating through Professional Learning Networks. They are again walking the walk this year at their Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX, March 6-8, 2010, by inviting “education writers, bloggers, broadcast reporters, [...]
Continue reading...The Pulitzer Center — Relevant Learning, Authentic Engagement
16. November 2009
Where do you point your students for news? Fox? NBC? NPR? NY Times? CNN? When you want something a bit different, something less corporate, where do you look? Media Matters? The Daily Show? Indy Media? Rush? Huffington? Crooks and Liars? What if you want ground-breaking, objective, mixed media journalism with a global perspective, that creates [...]
Continue reading...Cornucopia of Primary Sources Links: The National Archives
14. November 2009
In a fantastic session at NCSS Annual Conference, a couple of education specialists from the National Archives and Records Administration presented a small sampling of the incredible wealth of primary source materials available for free. From Nixon’s resignation letter to Regan’s landmark Berlin speech (his speaking copy!), they employed resources that can bring history alive [...]
Continue reading...The Elements of Teaching
10. August 2009
Science teachers stay up to date on the latest techniques and technology by going back to school.
Continue reading...Documenting the Digital Generation
23. July 2009
The George Lucas Educational Foundation recently launched an exciting new website — Digital Generation – which offers a wealth of videos which will be relevant to anyone who wants to better understand the new media literacies, participatory culture, and young people’s online lives, themes which recur here with great frequency. I have been looking the [...]
Continue reading...Summer Reading Lists
28. May 2009
Just a quick, short list of some reading selections for the summer: San Francisco Public Library Reading Lists Annotated list of lists up to 12 year olds, including special interest topic lists. Boulder Public Library Booklists Kids’ Booklists including topics specific for boys, girls, and teachers. Boston Public Library Summer Reading Lists Though this list [...]
Continue reading...Six Degrees of Integration: D.I.A.P.E.R. (It Contains Everything)
14. May 2009
Let’s face it, as teachers and curriculum designers we sometimes find ourselves having to deal with a lot of you-know-what. Containing the varying interests stinking up the place (including, but not limited to, administrators, parents, policy makers, our professional expectations of ourselves, and even students themselves) can be a challenge, at best. At worst, it [...]
Continue reading...Parent Involvement – “What’s Your View?”
16. April 2009
The involvement of parents and families in schools is often cited as one of the most important ways to improve education. High levels of parental involvement correlate with: improved academic performance higher test scores more positive attitudes toward school higher homework completion rates fewer placements in special education academic perseverance lower dropout rates fewer suspensions” [...]
Continue reading...To Homework or Not To Homework
14. April 2009
To homework, or not to homework? That is the question. While it doesn’t quite have that Shakespearean resonance or gravity to it, the question continues to spark debate in education circles (or at least it did in 2006). Recently some parents in my school started sending around a few resources while they explored the various [...]
Continue reading...Teaching Teachers to Teach, er, I mean, Learn
8. April 2009
What does it take to be successful? Ponder this question while trolling quote sites and you get a pretty good picture of what others think — preparedness, hard work, vision, stick-with-it-ness, determination, and the ability to turn challenges into opportunities. (It is curious to note that not one quote suggested needing to know a specific [...]
Continue reading...Goomoodleikiog
1. April 2009
A simple yet effective look at technology tools available to the 21st century classroom educator.
Continue reading...In your best Steve Tyler: “Tweeeeeeet E-Moe-Shun”
31. March 2009
One hundred forty characters, times 100 people, times 10 posts per day, and multiplied by the number of pages on the internet (at least 7), equals Unlimited Possibilities for professional development at best and mundane hyperactivity bordering on incoherence at worst. Twitter can be both and neither. The truth is, on the surface, Twitter sounds [...]
Continue reading...Web 2.0 Resources for Younger Students
31. March 2009
Web 2.0 for younger students: Glogster For younger kids use the “edu” version for elementary. Use plain old dot com for standard teenage angst. Weebly Free website design that students can use to do a bit o’ blogging. Simply Box Cool tool for grabbing pieces of sites and compiling them. Kerpoof Site for creating animated [...]
Continue reading...Defensible Differentiation Notes
31. March 2009
A few notes from Carol Ann Thomlinson’s presentation on defensible differentiation. Flexible grouping: by Readiness, Interest, and Learning Profile by Group or Make up (student similarities, size, variance) by Teacher Choice, Student Choice, or at Random Thomlinson recommends creating Pre-Assigned “Standing” Groups (by color, by hours on a clock, etc.). ”Meet up with your _________ group.” [...]
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