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Sisyphus
The new banner to my blog site is a picture of a paperweight my dad kept on his writing desk when I was a child. The original allure to me was that a GI Joe action figure was about the … Continue reading
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Drop I, Add THEY
Back when Garth Brooks was an international musical star, he gave part of an interview from the nosebleed section of Cowboy Stadium in Dallas, TX. He explained how he likes to make the trek up to those seats to get … Continue reading
Posted in Coaching, Professional Learning Conceptions, Teachers
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Testing Ourselves
The last cartons of standardized state test booklets were just shipped back from the school buildings I serve, hopefully marking the end of an asinine era of high-stakes test administration in the Fall. Michigan is rumored to be moving to … Continue reading
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Flipping Math Workshop
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The Best Student
A conversation with a fellow teacher reminded me of a letter I wrote to one of my students a few years ago. It appears we had shared similar experiences of ego-centric students asking us if they were our favorite. That … Continue reading
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Equalizing Cultural Capital
There are some truths I question. One came up recently when a colleague told me, “You cannot raise the cultural capital of one group by reducing it from another.” In a broader context, you can’t rob Peter to pay Paul … Continue reading
What do you do?
Try this as an icebreaker at your next meeting…Ask everyone to think for just a minute of something that fits this description:What is one activity you love doing, you are relatively good at doing, and you want to get better … Continue reading
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Discipline: Something We DO…or TEACH
The first interviews I had for teaching jobs are fun to recall. I often think that probably 90% of the rhetoric I spewed was 100% theoretic, book smarts. Less was based on my experience, than on my understanding of a … Continue reading
The Language We Choose
“If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system, fundamental historical, social, economic, and technological forces need to be pondered, understood, and redirected. Behavior won’t change much without a fundamental change in consciousness. The question … Continue reading
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Summer Online Academy
I’m not a real big video game fan, but I’m very interested in how to gamify a classroom, with or without technology, so that the same elements that engage learners so naturally on video games might apply to social learning. … Continue reading
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