I know budgets are tight and budget cuts are much more normal than raises, but if you have teachers who are teaching a class and half because budget cuts have eliminated a whole teaching position, then shouldn’t teacher raises be top priority in the coming fiscal year? “Teachers do deserve a raise,” said Spartanburg District 5 Superintendent …
It’s amazing as a teacher when you encounter a community of learners without noticeable barriers and boundaries between teachers and students. That’s what I saw today at Oakbrook. I saw teachers who were reflectively considering the way that technology would be used in their classrooms and who were thinking through theses decisions as their students …
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I’ve realized that I haven’t used this space to talk much about what I am doing day to day, so here we go! Yesterday, I worked with student who finished school in a non-degree program and he is working towards a GED. So I am desperately trying to connect GED vocabulary to experiences and sports …
More and more I am wondering whether public schools are about students or money: One of the leading criticisms of voucher programs—and charter and virtual schoolsfor that matter—is that they undermine traditional public schools’ finances by sucking away their per-pupil funding and resources.
I’ve said my piece, I’ve made my plea. Now it’s time to decide who you will be. Amen. Let it be. Amen. Let it be.
I had a dream last night that I was standing on the porch and watching the ocean. Then I saw that the tide was creeping closer and closer and becoming more and more powerful. I begged and pleaded to the people around me to follow me inland. I told them what I saw, but then …
In a time of budget crisis, this is one of the best arguments for allowing students to use mobile devices in class: District leaders want students with devices at home to have the option to switch them on in class. That would free up schools’ limited number of Netbooks, iPods and iPads for students without …
Great argument for blogging in the classroom. Even at a young age, it is important to begin to have an idea of the significance of a digital footprint, including what things are appropriate to post online, how to protect your identity and ways to interact with others in an online space. As my six-year-olds grow …
It’s an exhilarating and excruciating experience. Those first steps without aches and pains, without feel the impact of each step. Freedom from pain. Oh yeah, I like running. And then the awkwardness of the autocorrecting that inevitably creeps up because you don’t have to overcompensate for run down support. Like a foal trying to learn to walk for …
Maybe Khan Academy isn’t the best thing in education: Mr. Khan stated that the purpose of Khan Academy was to have the students watch the lectures at home, on their own, so teachers could do better things in class. How about we get rid of the lectures all together, or use them sparingly in class …
