Why I Decided to Become a Private School Teacher - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher
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Why I Decided to Become a Private School Teacher - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher: Why I Decided to Become a Private School TeacherbyNancy FlanaganThis is a guest post fromNadia Zananiri, who teaches AP World History at Miami Beach Senior High School, and serves as AP World History mentor teacher for Miami Dade county. She is founder of the Facebook groupFlorida Parentsand Educators for Legislative Change.I am not a private school teacher yet; but I am ... more »
Schools Matter: Cañon City improves access to books, I make a suggestion
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Schools Matter: Cañon City improves access to books, I make a suggestion: Cañon City improves access to books, I make a suggestionbyskrashenWritten in response to a very nice article in the local newspaper.A suggestion for the Book Swap: Don’t include incentivesSent to the Cañon City Daily Record, March 10, 2012I was very pleased to read that as a result of my presentation at the Colorado Reading Association conference, there are plans to add a book swap along with the summer ... more »
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Andrew Rotherham: Can Parents Take Over Schools? | Dropout Nation: Why Andy Rotherham is Off-Target by RiShawn Biddle »Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-21 minutes agoAndrew Rotherham: Can Parents Take Over Schools? | TIME Ideas | TIME.com: Can Parents Take Over Schools?New "parent trigger" laws are triggering debate, but not enough attention is being paid to what happens afterwardsByANDREW J. ROTHERHAM|@arotherham|March 8, 2012|9inShare15ALEX GALLARDO / REUTERSChrissy Guzman speaks in frustration during a Adelanto School District board meeting regarding the ... more »
An Urban Teacher's Education: Somebody's Unplugging My Computer
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An Urban Teacher's Education: Somebody's Unplugging My Computer: Somebody's Unplugging My ComputerbyJames BoutinYesterday, for the third day in a row, I sat down at my computer during third period to find somebody had pulled its plug out of the socket.The first two days it happened, I chalked it up to an accident. The outlet is in sort of an awkward place, and its possible that a student may have bumped into the cord or moved a chair into it to ... more »
School Tech Connect: IFT Primary Outreach: Kelly Cassidy
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School Tech Connect: IFT Primary Outreach: Kelly Cassidy: IFT Primary Outreach: Kelly CassidyI just got the nicest letter from IFT president Dan Montgomery, advising me to vote for Kelly Cassidy, who was endorsed early on byIFTand then later on byIPACE.Evidently there are people whostill haven't voted. It's been a long time since I was in the IEA but I don't remember getting an endorsement letter like this ever from IPACE. Maybe I just missed them. It's a pretty nice feature, ... more »
Seattle Schools Community Forum: The Legislature and Education Bills; Here's Where They Stand
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Seattle Schools Community Forum: The Legislature and Education Bills; Here's Where They Stand: The Legislature and Education Bills; Here's Where They StandbyMelissa WestbrookThank goodness forThe Olympian; they really keep up-to-date on the Legislature. Here's the latest on education measures:Passed and gone to the Governor for her signature:Collaborative schools: A proposal for universities to work with school districts to assist low-performing schools cleared the Legislature. The pilot project would implement instruction models and other strategies in chosen elementary schools.Thi... more »
Undocumented students begin cross-country trek - latimes.com
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Undocumented students begin cross-country trek - latimes.com: Undocumented students begin cross-country trekMarch 10, 2012|2:05pm70A group of undocumented students and their supporters Saturday began a cross-country walking journey from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., to advocate for the passage of the Dream Act.The eight-month walk began just before 1 p.m. with marchers crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. The trek is meant to draw attention during the election season to the proposed federal legislation, which would create a path to citizenship for ... more »
Daily Kos: Our fight for public schooling is a fight for democracy
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Daily Kos: Our fight for public schooling is a fight for democracy: Our fight for public schooling is a fight for democracybyrss@dailykos.com (teacherken)Our fight for public schooling is a fight for democracy, for one-for-all-and-all-for-one solutions to our problems. But what is this democracy idea? Or as the Occupiers say: "What does democracy look like"? We need to use schools to sell democracy—even to explain it! It doesn't just live on neglected and compromised. Even many of our parental allies seem ... more »
Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida’s Parent Trigger bill | Seattle Education
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Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida’s Parent Trigger bill | Seattle Education: Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida’s Parent Trigger billbyseattleducation2011Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida’s Parent Trigger bill:A victory of parents over forces that would privatize and profit from our public schoolsPublic education and true parent empowerment were the winners after a “Parent Trigger” law died on the floor of the Florida State Senate on March 9, said Rita Solnet, a Florida parent activist and a ... more »
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Social Media and Your Child
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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Social Media and Your Child: Social Media and Your ChildbyMelissa WestbrookThe Times has what could be considered a somewhat funny kind of "whoops" story except that the bigger issue of social media and your child is more sobering.Thestoryis about Miss Seattle, Jean-Sun Hannah Ahn. She won her crown last Saturday. The next day reporter Linda Thomas from KIRO-FM posted a story about Ms. Ahn's Twitter postings from a couple of months back.Apparently, Ms. Ahn, who is ... more »
Kyle Olson’s latest target: teaching about Gay and lesbian equality. « Fred Klonsky
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Kyle Olson’s latest target: teaching about Gay and lesbian equality. « Fred Klonsky: Kyle Olson’s latest target: teaching about Gay and lesbian equality.byFred KlonskyWith the passing of right-wing blogger and video-liar, Andrew Breitbart, Kyle Olson has stepped up to take his place.Olson is the little-known leader of a small band of teacher-bashing, union haters in western Michigan called the Education Action Group. His targets have been the Michigan Education Association, individual teacher activists and children’s books likeClick Clack Moo, Cows ... more »
Adecuación, coherencia y cohesión, las propiedades más relevantes de un texto : vivirlaeducacion
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Adecuación, coherencia y cohesión, las propiedades más relevantes de un texto : vivirlaeducacion: Adecuación, coherencia y cohesión, las propiedades más relevantes de un textobyadminEste tema de la adecuación textual y sucoherencia y cohesiónes un tema básico y fundamental en el temario de bachillerato. De hecho es fundamental la correcta utilización de todo lo que estos términos significan cuando hemos de escribir o comunicarnos. Y la verdad es que habitualmente estas propiedades de los textos las tenemos en cuenta incluso sin ... more »
Teacher Evaluation: Should we Look at Evidence of Learning? - Living in Dialogue
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Teacher Evaluation: Should we Look at Evidence of Learning? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Teacher Evaluation: Should we Look at Evidence of Learning?byAnthony CodyFollow me onTwitter at @AnthonyCodyIn the mistaken belief that test scores are adequate reflections of learning, we have created vast systems to extract test score data, and now are requiring that this data be incorporated in teacher and principal evaluations across the country. Can we return to an authentic use of evidence and data ... more »
PURE » Upfront with Jesse Jackson
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Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » Upfront with Jesse Jackson: Upfront with Jesse JacksonbyadminBack row: Mike Klonsky, Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. Front row: James Thindwa, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Julie WoestehoffTaped a show this morning with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. on poverty and education. It’ll air in two weeks, on Saturday, March 24 at 10 pm Chicago time on the WORD Network on cable.Education advocates Mike Klonsky and James Thindwa were also on ...more »
Saturday coffee + Old school. « Fred Klonsky
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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky: Saturday coffee.byFred KlonskyI ain’t Grace. But I’m slick.What a beautiful Saturday.What a crazy week.I’ve never actually been thrown out of my principal’s office before.Now I have.To still be able to have a new teaching experience afterOld school.byFred KlonskyTaj Mahal.
HAS ARNE DUNCAN JUNKED THE COMMON CORE? | Truth in American Education
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HAS ARNE DUNCAN JUNKED THE COMMON CORE? | Truth in American Education: HAS ARNE DUNCAN JUNKED THE COMMON CORE?byEmmett McGroartyOr is he just jerking us around?This week the state senate of Utah joined the gathering protest against the federally coerced Common Core State Standards by passing a bill asserting state sovereignty to withdraw from the Common Core. Kudos to the state’s legislature for passing the bill and to Governor Herbert for his support of it.Utah’s effort comes on the heels ... more »
School Tech Connect: The Tweeting of the Shrew #soschat #edchat
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School Tech Connect: The Tweeting of the Shrew: The Tweeting of the ShrewThere's something spiritually broken inside this woman.Mean, mean country.You might also like:The Year in PicturesKaren Lewis and Lois WeinerMiguel del Valle For MayorPension Revenue BackgroundLinkWithin
Rita M. Solnet: David vs. Goliath, Battle Over Public Education
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Rita M. Solnet: David vs. Goliath, Battle Over Public Education: Rita M. SolnetFounding Member, Parents Across AmericaPosted: February 22, 2011 12:23 PMBIOBecome a FanGet Email AlertsBloggers' IndexDavid vs. Goliath, Battle Over Public EducationIt wasn't just the type of slingshot or the shape of rock David used when he defeated Goliath. David's determination was steadfast, his belief system so strong, that it shaped his do or die mindset. David courageously pressed forward and defeated Goliath. But why did he win when ... more »
The Morning After Defeating Florida’s Parent Trigger Bill | Scathing Purple Musings
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The Morning After Defeating Florida’s Parent Trigger Bill | Scathing Purple Musings:The Morning After Defeating Florida’s Parent Trigger BillbyBob SikesLakeland republican senator Paula Dockery knew who the 20th vote was which would defeat parent trigger legislation in Florida. She said the evening before that the vote was 20-20. Opponents of the bill didn’t know who it was but then again neither did senate leadership who pulled every trick in the book to make this happen.I’d speculated that potential votes could ... more »
Andrew Rotherham: Can Parents Take Over Schools? | Dropout Nation: Why Andy Rotherham is Off-Target by RiShawn Biddle »
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Andrew Rotherham: Can Parents Take Over Schools? | TIME Ideas | TIME.com: Can Parents Take Over Schools?New "parent trigger" laws are triggering debate, but not enough attention is being paid to what happens afterwardsByANDREW J. ROTHERHAM|@arotherham|March 8, 2012|9inShare15ALEX GALLARDO / REUTERSChrissy Guzman speaks in frustration during a Adelanto School District board meeting regarding the parent trigger law, in Adelanto, California, March 6, 2012.If your child’s school is lousy, would you want the option to band together with other parents and ... more »
Grumpy Educators: Florida Parent Trigger: Too many holes
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Grumpy Educators: Florida Parent Trigger: Too many holes: Florida Parent Trigger: Too many holesbySandraFlorida Parent Trigger: Too many holesParents, community members, and taxpayers pushed back on the Florida "Parent Empowerment" bill and those efforts were successful. The bill died on the last day of the legislative session in a tie vote, 20 to 20. TheMiami Heraldreported last minute arm twisting by former Governor Jeb Bush to influence a change of position by one Senator to ensure its passage in case ... more »
Daily Kos: why as a teacher I am not "objective"
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Daily Kos: why as a teacher I am not "objective": why as a teacher I am not "objective"byrss@dailykos.com (teacherken)and before you have a cow and assume I am biased in my teaching, that is not the point of my statement.I write only about how I approach my students.I do not treat them"objectively." I do not compare them to some arbitrary and thus artificial standard which is not relevant to them.Insofar as i can, I attempt to treat each as subject ... more »
hctiB G: Wisdom | The G Bitch Spot
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hctiB G: Wisdom | The G Bitch Spot: hctiB G: WisdombyG Bitchoriginally postedMarch 10, 2008____Wisdom is experience with long-term memory for and ability to often predict the stupid and wrong behavior of your age cohorts and others.Just one of the tidbits Mister and I try pass on to The Girl.“Fuck those people!”byG BitchPeggy Lipton [ofThe Mod Squad] tried to interest her boyfriend, Elvis Presley, in Scientology, according to one of Presley’s associates, Lamar Fike. “One day, in L.A., we got ... more »
Posted: Oakland’s new high school teaching positions - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools
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Posted: Oakland’s new high school teaching positions - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools: Posted: Oakland’s new high school teaching positionsFriday, March 9th, 2012 at 6:18 pm inhigh schoolsinitiatives4 Comments »OUSD is hiring an unspecified number of teachers (a.k.a. “teacher leaders” or “Acceleration High School: Teachers On Special Assignment”) to work an 11-month year at Castlemont, Fremont and McClymonds high school campuses. The jobs, which wereposted on EdJoin.orglate this afternoon, are open to candidates at other ... more »
Why Can’t We Hold Parents Accountable Any More? « Diary of a Public School Teacher!
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Why Can’t We Hold Parents Accountable Any More? « Diary of a Public School Teacher!: Why Can’t We Hold Parents Accountable Any More?byOldschoolteachI’ve noticed that whenever someone starts talking about ”the parents”, people want to shut them down. The immediate reaction is a harsh backlash, usually accusing the author of parent bashing. “The parents” are off-limits. But, I’m going to go there.:)I believe society started a trend from which there is no escape, and no turning back. Parents were allowed ... more »
Teachers Need Trust and Security - NYTimes.com
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Teachers Need Trust and Security - NYTimes.com: Each Teacher Wonders, Is This the One?By ALEXANDREA J. RAVENELLEPublished: March 9, 2012RECOMMENDTWITTERLINKEDINE-MAILPRINTREPRINTSSHAREA WEEK and a half ago, the day after theschool shootingnear Cleveland, a student stood in the doorway of my Bronx college classroom. He was eating half a bagel with cream cheese. It was a month into the semester, 45 minutes into the class period. I didn’t remember ever having seen him before.Enlarge This ImageJing WeiRelatedTimes Topic:School ShootingsHe had been staring ... more »