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praxis effect

November 2011

2 posts

BREAKING: Teacher's Mo Kicks Cancer's Arse

Greetings from the last week of MOVEMBER! - 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.) - Why, might you ask, have I, along with two buddies, taken my ordinary face and turned it into something...

October 2011

1 post

April 2011

1 post

March 2011

1 post

motherjones: Animation of Wave Propagation from the Japan Earthquake Via NOAA’s Center for Tsunami Research

February 2011

5 posts

January 2011

1 post

December 2010

2 posts

November 2010

4 posts

October 2010

5 posts

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.

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...

The 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

5 posts

“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.

A Teacher's Field Guide to Parents →

Master of Myth: What Arne Duncan Says and Does →

August 2010

1 post

“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

2 posts

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...

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

10 posts

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.

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?

Massive Flow of Bullshit Continues to Gush from BP... →

May 2010

21 posts

Gary Hayes' Social Media Counter

Lawmakers to Teachers: Answer These 5... →

Policymakers invite teacher input regarding education reform.