I Show You, Show Me
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I Recommend….Reading
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 …
People Do Believe
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 …
Sometimes I wonder
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. …
Day 1 of trying to be an affiliate marketer
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.
Are schools the next big market?
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 …
Teacher Affiliates
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 …
Synergistic Experience
I’ve been on enough runs that I know a good one within the first couple of steps. I know whether my breathing is labored or whether it feels like my legs are stuck in molasses. When either of these things are off, then I know that the run is going to be one that I …
Marketing Shift
New forms of labeling students like Common Core, don’t change the underlying assumption: In education, as in society, holding individuals accountable for their actions is a powerful paradigm within a meritocracy. If all is equitable, then human choices and behaviors are more easily assigned in a causational way to individuals. Political and public discourse as …
Regulate regulations
Really, Congress can’t regulate? Maybe not directly, but certainly indirectly they have! To backtrack: the Common Core State Standards are not federal standards. After all, the U.S. Constitution gives Congress no authority to fund or regulate schools or control curriculum, standards, or policy. But at its annual fall meeting in 2008, after previous informal discussions, …