Memorial Day 2014: A Reader
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“Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm” NYT, May 18, 2014
Originally posted on Bill Ayers:The call for “trigger warnings”—a recent censorious trend gaining traction on American college campuses—is designed to alert students of any potentially troubling, unsettling, or upsetting course materials. The impetus is benign enough, and the context includes the important recent mobilization to deal seriously with epidemic levels of rape and sexual…
Quick note: Not permitted to mention “play” in Kindergarten
Let’s just say, hypothetically of course, that you are being observed by central office staff. You, as the teacher, post your schedule and, begrudgingly, your objectives to the wall in a central location. In post-observation “feedback,” it is suggested that you, as the teacher, not refer to “centers,” but instead adopt the term “work stations” […]
Peter DeWitt writes about teacher leaders, but ideology trumps expertise
From Peter DeWitt in Education Week. Very often, real change happens from the ground up, but unfortunately too many school leaders only recognize change from the top down. And if teachers need to change so much…might school leaders need to change as well? Pay attention school leaders…your best teacher leaders may be the ones who […]
A Memorial Day Post Featuring My Daddy
On this Memorial Day, I would like to feature my father, Michael Louis Schneider, Jr. (October 31, 1918 – May 10, 1980), who served in the Third Army, Seventy-first Division, from 1943 to 1946. Michael L. Schneider, Jr., circa 1943. He was around 25 years old at the time. I think he was really handsome. Daddy […]
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Arts Teachers of the World Unite and Take Over!
The latest news in education that isn’t news came out of Philadelphia last week. According to Darlene Superville from the Associated Press and posted here: Delivering a forceful argument on the role of the arts in education, Michelle Obama said Tuesday that it isn’t something to be introduced after student test scores go up but […]
5-25-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Misreading the Never-Ending Drop-Out “Crisis”Misreading the Never-Ending Drop-Out “Crisis”. via Misreading the Never-Ending Drop-Out “Crisis”.by plthomasedd / 1h All Week 5-24-14 @ THE CHALK FACE@ THE CHALK FACE : All Week @ THE CHALK FACE NCTQ Gets Caught in a Data Collecting LieThe National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) will be “grading” university-level, traditional teach