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Saturday, February 15, 2020

Blue Serials (2/15/20) | Blue Cereal Education

Blue Serials (2/15/20) | Blue Cereal Education

Blue Serials (2/15/20)


This week’s Blue Serials largely features blogs and other online sources which have absolutely no need of a signal boost from me. Still, if they’re going to be so narcissistic as to create great content that’s not shared here FIRST, I should at least have the right to abscond it and use it for my own glorification. 
Plus, these are all, like… really good pieces. So there’s that.
Doug Robertson Weird TeacherDoug Robertson, aka “The Weird Teacher,” has been particularly shiny recently. If you’re not familiar with Robertson, he’s an elementary school teacher with blue hair, a motorcycle, and a love of the kind of music that used to frighten Congress in the 80s. He’s also the author of not one, but THREE of the best education-related books ever written – and I say that as a guy who’s not a big fan of many education books.
I’d already made a note to myself to talk about “One of Those Years” before I realized that, like Lay's potato chips, you can't read just one:
You can say, "It's been one of those years." And no one at work will question what you mean. Every single person gets it. Every single person at your school has had "one of those years."
Like, you don't often realize it right away. Maybe it was just a weird CONTINUE READING: Blue Serials (2/15/20) | Blue Cereal Education