Laura Schiller contributes this #blog4nwp post.
In middle age, I discovered the National Writing Project and subsequently found my voice as an educator and a passion for learning that continues decades later. But I did not grow in isolation. My three daughters watched their mother publish, complete National Board Certification, teach teachers across the country, and work toward a doctorate in education. NWP changed us all, strong women, focused learners, intent on contributing to the world in ways that would leave it a better place when we were gone.
My journey into a deeply thoughtful teaching life came with a sense of responsibility to others. NWP is about teachers teaching teachers. It is a network that reaches into classrooms to support students as writers and
MONTPELIER, Vt. — When Tracy Thresher has something to say, he uses his right index finger — and a special computer that gives voice to what he types. Hunched over the device, he begins.
Tap, tap, tap. Tap, tap, tap. Tap, tap, tap, tap....
Autism silences the 43-year-old Vermont man. He doesn't speak. But he has a message for the world about how people should think of people like him. So he taps it out.
"To think intelligence, even if you see wacky, goofy behavior. We are simply intelligence, shown in a different way," comes the robotic voice, broadcast out of his computer.
Thresher and friend Larry Bissonnette, 53, who have been advocates for 10 years
Though the fight was not prevalent in this week’s news cycle, the struggle for workers’ rights still continues in Wisconsin. On Friday, March 18, Judge Maryann Sumi issued a temporary restraining order after finding that the conference committee meeting held by State Senate Republican legislators violated the State’s 24 hour open meeting law.
On Monday, March 21, Wisconsin State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen appealed the temporary restraining order. Van Hollen asserts that only the Legislature and the Governor
500,000 march in London to protest budget cuts.
If there was no oil in Libya the US would treat it like it treats the rest of Africa says General Wesley Clark. The invasion of Libya was planned years ago.
What you won’t read in this morning’s obits on Geraldine Ferraro. “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is.” -2008
The Republicans believe it is okay to search the emails of grade school teachers and professors, but not Republican governors. My water color order forms should be transparent to the public. But not their million dollar give-aways to giant corporations.
Meanwhile a union teacher gets punished for using emails to organize protests in Oskosh, Wisconsin.
So here we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another
Conservatives are steaming like a black kettle in their sly campaign against Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg, "charging" that she has no judicial or legislative experience. Gee, these days that doesn't sound like a defect, it sounds like a feature.
And it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black when the anti-Kloppenburg pundits solemnly entone her lack of experience on the bench. Which is exactly, at this same point in his own career, as much experience on the bench as her opponent, David Prosser, had. Prosser, ahem, also served years as a Republican legislator and a district attorney. The difference? He openly touted, voted for and continues to signal his conservative allegiances, both in the history of his votes on the bench and in his speeches.
So, to sum up the right-wing trolls: If you're a political hack on the right, lack of judicial experience is no impediment to a Republican governor (Tommy Thompson, in Prosser's case) appointing you to a vacant seat on
ASCD has teachers, but there are a lot of administrators here. I haven’t spent so much time with so many administrators at a conference before. It’s a new and difference experience for me. I’m also taking on more of a leadership role myself, representing for my CUE affiliate, CapCUE as we start a new joint
With the Chamber of Commerce and Koch Industries-fueled Americans for Prosperity as the driving forces, several payroll deduction bans are being pursued around the country. These laws prevent unions from automatically deducting union dues from their members’ paychecks. The deduction practice, ubiquitous
