Category : “Education”

Monty Python and the Metaphorical Impalement

May 19, 2013Mike Lee Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy

I’m confident that Rosa Parks didn’t “begin to have the difficult conversations” about bus seating.

The Obstinacy of Hope

May 16, 2013Amethyst Hinton Sainz Assessment, Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Literacy

I endeavor to explain how I see hope as essential to a teacher’s job, and yet not quite the syrupy-sweet thing that many interpret from Dickinson’s famous poem. It’s more beaky.

Winding Down

May 7, 2013Jen Robinson Education, Elementary

The last time I looked at my calendar it was February. Where has the year gone? We are now fast approaching the end of the year. It didn’t hit me until this weekend, less than 15 days of school left.

A Special Relationship

April 29, 2013Amethyst Hinton Sainz Books, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Literacy, Teacher Leadership

Is the library the beating heart of your school? Ours is.

The Loss of a Child

April 22, 2013Mike Lee Assessment, Education

On Saturday night, I received news that one of our students was killed in a tragic car accident. Our community is devastated, the staff is beginning to grieve, and our students will need the full weight of our district’s crisis

Standardized Tests and Monty Hall

April 21, 2013Sandy Merz Assessment, Current Affairs, Education, Games, Life in the Classroom, Mathematics

I was proctoring my students during the standardized tests last week and thinking of how we try to train them to try to eliminate a couple of obvious wrong answers before guessing. Then I remembered the Monty Hall Problem. You

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What’s the temperature in my class?

April 10, 2013Sandy Merz Books, Current Affairs, Education, Life in the Classroom

Blogger Julie Torres coordinates support for National Board candidates in our district. In that capacity she observes many teachers at their practice. In her recent post, 10 Degrees of Teaching, Julie takes the temperature of the current teaching environment and lists ten observations. After

Vulgar and Perilous Reforms

March 27, 2013Sandy Merz Assessment, Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Parent Involvment, Teacher Leadership

In 1790, conservative political philosopher Edmund Burke wrote in Reflections on the Revolution in France: “A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.” Clay Shirky, expert on the role of social media and

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What If? (#3) OR Why My Teacher Website is So Ugly

March 22, 2013Amethyst Hinton Sainz Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Literacy, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Teachers and students working in the classroom often know the tech tools we need, and we can learn them an implement them if the systems in our schools are responsive enough to meet our needs quickly.

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