I love this time of the year. Not only is fall my favorite time of year, but it signifies the start of a new year. Every year of my life, my years have been shifted to run from September to September rather than January to January. So actually, my new year’s resolution are formed during …
I’ve been teaching students who struggle with reading for the past six years and I have to say that each case is unique. There are some similarities between the different readers, but there is a uniqueness to each of their situations that warrants an individual intervention plan. One of the common problems I see is …
As school starts back, I am always thinking about ways to lighten my load (and avoid more pinched nerves in my back!) and enlighten my students. This year, my teacher bag will be include several items that I didn’t even know about last year: My iPad: For the camera, for the apps and for my …
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I’ll be the first to admit that I read books based on friend recommendations, not Amazon’s recommendations. So when I read this: But there may be a hope for aspiring writers, yet. Social networking is bringing the gatekeeper – the human recommendation – back to the forefront of culture consumption, and new models are cropping …
This is a topic we debate quite often in our seminary classes and a topic that society is certainly interested in knowing more about, so when I read: Religiosity is on the decline in the U.S. and atheism is on the rise, according to a new worldwide poll. The poll, called “The Global Index of …
If any of my students have kept those black composition books that we used as writer’s notebooks. I wonder if they run across them in their rooms or closets or under their beds and remember our class community. I wonder if they remember that for that little bit of time they were writers and dreamers. …
Ok, that last video I posted was not true. Plain as that. This is not as easy as sitting in front of your computer. This is hard. Really hard. I’ve been at this for 5 hours and I am still nowhere close to being ready. Maybe this is not for me after all.
It’s not surprising to find that education is a huge market: The K-12 market is tantalizingly huge: The U.S. spends more than $500 billion a year to educate kids from ages five through 18. The entire education sector, including college and mid-career training, represents nearly 9 percent of U.S. gross domestic product, more than the …
In a recent board meeting, I heard the phrase “teacher affiliate.” Having been to Affiliate Summit, my ears perked up and I wondered if my worlds were colliding. Here’s how this works in the teaching world: There are national professional development groups. These groups need teachers as members. Therefore, they national professional development groups form …
