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A Belated Thank You, Teachers
Jill Hare of TheApple.com wrote a nice thank-you to all underappreciated teachers of the world. Here’s the link. Read it today or wait for a day when a student tells you how ridiculous you look in those pants.
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Slate Magazine Model 21st Century Classroom Contest
In response to the outdated state of the average American classroom, Slate Magazine recently solicited reader suggestions for transforming American schools. Go to their site to see what readers had to say about a model classroom for the 21st century. … Continue reading
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Damn you, Oprah, and your 23 million viewers per week
Rethinking Schools, the progressive ed magazine out of Milwaukee, has been pretty active in the anti-Waiting for Superman movement. Here’s a link to their website, NOTwaitingforsuperman.org, which is basically a collection of articles critiquing the film and the policies espoused … Continue reading
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TV Hat to the Rescue!
Instead of putting a smart screen in every classroom, why not give every student one of these?
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The Teachable Moment: Seizing the Instants When Students Learn
by ALISTAIR BOMPHRAY Just wanted to pass on some congratulations to fellow education blogger, Rebecca Branstetter of Notes from the School Psychologist, who, after two long years, published her book, “The Teachable Moment: Seizing the Instants When Students Learn.” It’s an … Continue reading
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Top Ten Teacher, Revised Stories of 2009-10
by ALISTAIR BOMPHRAY Hey everybody, we’re 1! (which is, like, ancient in blog years, right?) Teacher, Revised is officially all growed up. Well, not really, but we did make it a whole year without becoming complete computer nerds or getting … Continue reading
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Thank you, A Better Oakland
We recently got a nice shout-out from the popular Oakland blog, A Better Oakland. They said, “(Teacher, Revised’s) reflections on their classroom experiences and the education system are sometimes maddening, frequently heartwarming, and always a refreshing reminder of what wonderful, … Continue reading
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When Our Students Become Our Teachers
by JESSE SCACCIA It’s the end of the term, and things are crazy busy for us all, so this will be a shorter post. I’ve been going through a rough time lately, both personally and with my writing. One of … Continue reading
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Why I Love Vonnegut is also Why I Love Teaching
by JESSE SCACCIA This week my class and I have been talking Vonnegut. My unit plan had called for lessons about letter writing, but for some reason recently I had mentioned Vonnegut in passing. I waited for some sort of … Continue reading
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Advocating for our Students: It’s Necessary at the Policy Level Too
by JESSE SCACCIA I was reading my local paper today when I came across an interesting article. Currently schools in Virginia Beach, Virginia only give solid letter grades. The discussion involves adding in the ‘plus’ as an option. The net … Continue reading
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