Teacher in a Strange Land
So—next week’s Carnival of Education will be here, in a Strange Land. A special invitation to all teachers, across the opinion spectrum, to submit a blog: http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_5.html Today is ED in 08’s Washington D.C. Blogger Summit, and blogdom has been...
Over at Armchair Commentary, Ellen Kim is deliberating on the five greatest movie teachers, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week (which has just ended, in case you were wondering when your thank-you gift would arrive). Kim’s list is pretty traditional:...
I’m not a math teacher, but I played one in a middle school, not too long ago. In an earlier post, I mentioned that I was surprised to find myself teaching 7th grade math, in the fall of 2003. The...
Two weeks ago, my local newspaper, the Livingston County Press-Argus, reprinted one of my blogs as a Sunday editorial. It was a piece whose core message can be summed up in a single sentence:We need to improve schools in Michigan,...
For the past six weeks, I have been hooked on the HBO series, John Adams, with the same dedication and fervor other people seem to find for Dancing with the Stars. Technically, I know the facts, from 7th grade American...
Corey Bower asks a lot of questions about bad teachers in his unpretentiously titled blog, Thoughts on Education Policy. Mr. Bower, a doctoral student in Ed Policy at Vanderbilt, has been pumping out an assortment of blogs on a wide...
In her last year of a degree program in Justice Studies, my daughter took a course called “Surveillance in Society.” The readings and discussion were around intrusions into personal privacy and data made possible by technology. Dear Daughter and I...
I once had a colleague who showed Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure every year, at some strategic point, to her sixth grade social studies students, under the rationale that it was--duh--about history. This was a big hit with the kids,...
They're reviving South Pacific on Broadway--a hopeful sign for those of us who haven’t given up on traditional musical genres. I once took 135 8th graders to a dinner theater production of South Pacific, as part of a curricular unit...
Last night, I attended a fabulous community meeting--the kind of gathering which restores your faith in mankind to solve our common problems. Part of an initiative called Michigan's Defining Moment, it was an assembly of community leaders across my county:...
