April 2013
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A comment on a recent NYTimes teacher piece
I searched through NYTimes’ archive of medical / law / finance / congressional / military reform articles looking for pieces that fail to quote a doctor / lawyer / banker / policy-maker / enlisted soldier, and I found zero. Yet, here is an article — printed above the fold on the front page of the Sunday Times — about teachers, teacher evaluation, and education reform that quotes...
February 2013
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Get interesting articles and resources to help you in the classroom and in your work with students, especially those who can sometimes vex and challenge us. From the good folks at NEARI Press.
January 2013
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November 2012
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Edu-blog Nominations
Best Group blog: Ecology of Education — Insightful posts on a range of edu-topics by big thinkers.
Individual Tweeter: @EdReformPR — Sarcastic, humorous, clever, and occasionally ridiculous.
Administrator Blog: A Space for Learning by @PamMoran — Intelligent, progressive, steeped in the space between pedagogical theory and practical application.
Best Open PD: Global...
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12 Brain Rules
Below are the 12 Brain Rules developed by John Medina. You can find the original list in his book “Brain Rules” and on his Brain Rules website.
EXERCISE | Rule #1: Exercise boosts brain power. SURVIVAL | Rule #2: The human brain evolved, too. WIRING | Rule #3: Every brain is wired differently. ATTENTION | Rule #4: We don’t pay attention to boring things. SHORT-TERM MEMORY...
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Teaching Metacognition (A Short Resource List)
A short list of metacognitive resources for educators.
Metacognitive Strategies for Reading Comprehension - The Educator’s PLN
How the Internet is Shaping Our “Global Brain” - Tiffany Shlain - Harvard Business Review
Metacognition - BrainFacts.org
BRAIN POWER: From Neurons to Networks - YouTube
Teaching Metacognition: The Value of Thinking About Thinking
Teaching...
October 2012
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Impoverished Early Childhood & PBS
Let’s just be clear for a second: Millions of children living below the poverty line have NO access to quality early childcare to nurture their minds. They enter school already well behind their more affluent peers. That deficit is minimized (not solved, just lessened) by the quality of PBS programming, Sesame Street as the flagship. You can’t talk equal access to education (and by...
September 2012
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Parent/Teacher Influence on Student Achievement
Below are some links for those interested in research related to the difference between parent and teacher influence on student achievement.
1. From “Education News” on a UK study released this year
2. Paper from Phi Delta Kappa’s Summit on Public Education
3. Review of literature from Association for Middle Level Education
4. Literature Review from the London Centre for...
November 2011
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BREAKING: Teacher's Mo Kicks Cancer's Arse
Greetings from the last week of MOVEMBER!
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You may have noticed the fine mane of manliness growing upon my upper lip and down my cheeks - my Mo, as the mustache is affectionately called in Australia. (If not, I’ve included two images from Day 25 for your amusement.)
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Why, might you ask, have I, along with two buddies, taken my ordinary face and turned it into something...
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October 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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Watchmotherjones:
Animation of Wave Propagation from the Japan Earthquake
Via NOAA’s Center for Tsunami Research
February 2011
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January 2011
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December 2010
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November 2010
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October 2010
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My Inner Pollyanna's Ed Reform Blue Sky →
Even amid the heated education debates & discourse as of lately, my inner Pollyanna still dream’s big. 15 blue sky daydreams, if I had my way.
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The "New" Century
We have got to stop calling the 21st century the “new century”.
It’s 2010, people. We are over 1/10th of the way through it. If people live to be about 80, we don’t call them “new people” when they are 8! They are young, sure, but not new.
(The most recent example I found was in an Education Week commentary by Barbara Chow, who is the director of the...
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WatchThe amazing Bluefin Tuna. The most incredible fish of all time faces its biggest problem — the gold rush of fishers. Barbara Block shares her expertise in this insightful TED Talk. Watch & be amazed.
September 2010
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“Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer designed a study that neatly highlights how...”
– This came from an article in Psychologies, “Curiosity: the secret to your success”. The implications of this simple study on education, teaching, and education policy seem obvious and apparent: cultivating curiosity & creating environments safe for uncertainty & mistake making...
Good Post About the Education Nation Summit →
34years:
NBC is covering the Education Nation summit. Yong Zhao has a well-written post asking that the summit not turn into just another education bashing.
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A Teacher's Field Guide to Parents →
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Master of Myth: What Arne Duncan Says and Does →
August 2010
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“Standards define common content and performance expectations for all students in...”
– Learning Progressions vs. Standards. From the report, “Learning Progressions in Science, An Evidence-based Approach to Reform” by theConsortium for Policy Research in Education.
July 2010
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A Challenge for RiShawn
RiShawn,
You contend that “teachers are treated very well” and cite a healthy paycheck and a robust pension as evidence. I am intrigued by this position.
So here is my challenge to you:
1. In order to characterize teachers as being “treated very well” there must be other examples besides the ample paycheck & pension to substantiate this position. Can you provide...
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Daddy Day Care: 10 Pros, 10 Cons →
Oh the joys of parenthood. Or is it the woes? Or is it both? A funny look at staying home with the kids during summer break.
June 2010
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Tuna's End →
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Spill Happens: Education Reform & the Gulf of... →
what we want to happen and what actually happens are not always the same thing. Spill happens. Things don’t go to plan. Students are not necessarily going to become critical thinkers because we’ve standardized the curriculum, scripted the teachers, and tested the bananas out of them.
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Preparing Students to Lead BP
Sample test question:
If your company opens an oil well a mile under water that spews crude, unchecked, into an ocean, do you …
Attempt to downplay the problem?
Try to put a top hat on it?
Apply dispersants and point fingers?
Move your assets to subsidiary companies?
or All of the above?
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Massive Flow of Bullshit Continues to Gush from BP... →
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