Category : “Books”

Monster

February 5, 2018Treva Jenkins Books, Life in the Classroom

“The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help. That way even if you sniffle a little they won’t hear you.” This is just one of

John Maeda, wanting to write a simple book about keeping things simple, set the goal of limiting The Laws of Simplicity, to 100 pages. Likewise, my goal is to take about 100 words to recommend a powerful, seconds long, de-stressing meditation, that I

Culturally Responsive Teaching: When It’s Silly and When It’s Not

December 14, 2017Sandy Merz Books, Current Affairs, Education Policy, Professional Development

Culturally Responsive Teaching leads to much serious discussion about how best to welcome and teach students who come to us from innumerable ethnic, racial, and cultural backgrounds. It also leads to much silliness. On the silly side, one can find this quote

Example of an active and prepared Montessori classroom.

Organized Chaos or The Prepared Learning Environment (Continued)

September 28, 2017Yolanda Wheelington Books, Education, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Professional Development, Social Issues

During our first glance at the prepared learning environment, we looked at how freedom, structure and order, and beauty are key elements that answer the developmental needs of elementary children to create structure. Today, we will look at the last

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Let’s Be Mavens

September 26, 2017Mike Vargas Books, Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Professional Development, Science, Teacher Leadership, Uncategorized

Are you a trusted expert in your particular field who seeks to pass knowledge and truth on to others? Then you might just be a Maven. Are you a person who networks like crazy? – Maven This past summer

Summer Learnin,’ Had Me a Blast

August 18, 2017Beth Maloney Books, Education, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Social Issues

I’m usually a firm believer in the “too much rest is rust” saying by Sir Walter Scott. However, upon completing the school year in May, my body needed a little time to rust, I mean, rest. Summer days driftin’ away

Why Did I Have to Look at Those Test Scores?

October 5, 2016Sandy Merz Books, Current Affairs, Education, Life in the Classroom, Mathematics, Professional Development

I’m facing a conundrum. This summer I read Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students’ Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching by Jo Boaler (with a foreword by Carol Dweck of Mindset fame). I was completely fired up by Boaler’s

The (Winter) Breaking Point

December 21, 2015Beth Maloney Books, Education, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Literacy, Professional Development

After teaching for sixteen years, I know teaching is both an art and a science. I practiced the art of teaching this past week leading up to winter break as I kept my students learning and focused with long-anticipated events

Digressions, Gripes, and My Hypocrisy

September 17, 2015Sandy Merz Books, Life in the Classroom, Teacher Leadership, Uncategorized

I’m going to start with a digression (a pregression?). I get poems stuck in my head, just like music. Two frequent culprits are from Kurt Vonneget’s novel, Cat’s Cradle: Lion gotta hunt, Bird gotta fly, Man gotta sit and wonder, Why?

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