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Teacher’s read on news, developments, and blogs. This blog is no longer being updated.
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Blocking Access
Ed-tech expert Scott McCleod unloads on school Internet-filtering policies.
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Nice Start
Ariel Sacks gets her 8th graders' minds humming by having them write about a short quote on education by Yeats.
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Obama's Speech and the 'Idea of School'
Will Richardson argues that the controversy over President Obama's speech says a lot about how we as a nation have conceptually narrowed the role of schools.
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Rough Start
Mei Flower's year is off to a truly awful start. She could probably use some positive vibes if you feel like commenting. ...
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Back-to-School Blues
Hobo Teacher dreams of a new life after finding that his school e-mail address had been revoked.
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Translation, Please
Teacher Ninja, an ESOL teacher, has some fun with Google Docs' translation tool, which he thinks might help him in communicating with Spanish-speaking parents.
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Ice-Breakers
English teacher Renee Moore shares her methods of "pre-assessing" and getting to know students at the start of the year. Analyzing test data doesn't hack it for her:
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Classroom as Entertainment?
Nancy Flanagan isn't happy about the news that Tony Danza is going to be teaching in a Philadelphia high school this fall as part of a new T.V. reality show. Her take (based on experience): Classrooms and television-production values are a very bad mix.
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A New Start
Mildly Melancholy, an NYC teacher who was released last year from what sounded like the job from hell, jumps back into the fire (figuratively speaking, we hope).
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A Filtered Profession?
Will Richardson argues that schools' restrictions on teachers' Internet use are part of a larger, societal distrust of teachers as knowledge workers. Which, considering what teachers actually do, would seem to be a little bit of a problem ...
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Questioning RTI
Doug Noon expresses skepticism about his district's adoption of a Response to Intervention framework for the new school year. What bothers him, from his veteran teacher's point of view, is the seeming prescriptiveness and detachment of the program:
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Teacher Assignments? Call Scooby Doo!
Maureen Downey of the Atlanta Journal—Constitution’s Get Schooled blog pondered why schools often keep teacher assignments a mystery, when a little information could go a long way to ease a parent’s mind.
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Class Size Debate Out of Focus?
Eduwonk thinks concerns about the recession increasing class sizes, as raised by a recent an Associated Press are off base. In his view, schools should be more focused on teacher effectiveness:
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Do Teachers Have Boy Problems?
Ferriter jumps into the gender-gap debate, saying that schools by their nature might well be rigged against boys. For many teachers, he charges, characteristically energetic and impulsive middle school boys are "walking disruptions to be dismissed and disciplined."