Monthly Archives: April 2009
My Academy Can Beat Up Your Academy: The Danger of Small Schools
To what degree should we let competition shape our schools? As more and more schools make the decision to break up into academies or small schools, it is becoming increasingly critical that we find the right answer to this question. Continue reading
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Book Excerpt: Pass the mic
Tips on how to deal with the class clown. Continue reading
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Obama: Bush redux on education?
By JESSE SCACCIA Just a short post today on this lazy Saturday evening here in Cape Town. Today is feeling like the first day of winter: thick clouds, drizzle, extra bite to the wind. It will be a nice night … Continue reading
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Reader Poll: Is competition The Force or The Dark Side?
Teacher, Revised is working on a post about competition as a motivational tool for schools and students, and would like your input. Continue reading
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Letters From A Korean Classroom: But Teacher, how can we relax before sleep if we are studying?
his is Korea, where students get less sleep than Fortune 500 CEOs and instead of playing after-school sports they attend a handful of haegwons (“academies”) for science, math, computers, art, and traditional instruments. I teach English at one of these haegwons, where my elementary and middle school students take 3-hour classes, and then go home to online homework, book homework and mobile phone homework. Continue reading
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The Schoolyard Foodie: Feeding our future one meal at a time
Steps 1-3 of a 12-step program to help public schools rid themselves of our systematic addiction to processed industrial food. Continue reading
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Forget about the bees… What’s killing all the teachers?
By JESSE SCACCIA Over the last couple of years there has been great alarm about what’s known as “colony collapse disorder,” a mysterious malady that has been killing off bees by the millions. A lot of people–myself including–are kind of … Continue reading
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Grow Your Own Teachers: The anti-Teach For America
Grow Your Own Teachers is a state funded initiative to guide community members through the credentialing process and place them in local schools. It is precisely the kind of thing I wish more states were doing to recruit and retain teachers. It is the anti-Teach For America. Continue reading
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Book Excerpt: You are what you teach
When students say they hate a certain subject, more often than not, that is teenage code for hating the teacher. We are not just vessels for our subjects; to the kids, we are the subjects, personified. Continue reading
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That Substitute Teacher: Part Three
A personal essay about a tragicomic experience that I had substitute teaching in E. Oakland. Part 3 of 3. Continue reading
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