Posts By : “Eve Rifkin”

In my last post, I posed some questions about the NBC program and all that it purports to achieve. I wondered how or if it made folks better teachers, and how we would go about proving such a claim. I

According to a recent news story, Arizona has nearly doubled the number of its National Board Certified teachers in the past five years. This is impressive, to say the least. The year I completed NBC was no doubt my most

It is 3:03. Most of the students have left. Some are still hanging around waiting for rides, talking with friends, or looking for teachers before they head out for Thanksgiving break. Today is the day that I call "the most

Last night, I went to see Rosemary’s Baby as it was meant to be seen: In 35mm on the big screen. It was kinda scary, but so far-fetched, that it was also a little funny. As I sit down to

I'm not exactly sure when it happens, but at some point in many of our educational journeys we lose the ability to judge our own work. We can no longer look at what we've produced and decide whether it's good