The Teaching Life

We've got quite a few educators among our TLN Forum membership who run their own blogs here, there and yonder on the Web. Others are group-blogging in interesting places. Here are some recent highlights from the seldom-quiet minds of TLN'ers...

TLN Forum member Bill Ferriter, keeper of The Tempered Radical blog here on the TLN website, makes a significant contribution to the informal literature about Professional Learning Communities in a new post he titles "The Vision-less Learning Community." Bill takes...

Small item on the Education Minnesota website: St. Paul, Minn., June 23, 2008 — Citing personal reasons, 2008 Minnesota Teacher of the Year Carleen Gulstad has resigned from that title effective today. Gulstad, who teaches language arts at Hopkins North...

On this quiet eve, anniversary of our national introduction to a radical idea—“all men created equal”—I have been pondering a blog entry posted a couple of weeks ago over at Eduwonkette. E-wonkette threw out a link to and some speculation...

Maybe it's my creative gene trying to dig out from under the imperfect storm of information input, but I'm feeling a connection among several conversations I've heard and bits of reading I've done over the past several weeks. At the...

TLN member and middle school reading specialist Cindi Rigsbee calls her personal blog “The Dream Teacher.” Here’s a snippet from her recent entry about testing week: Testing is over, at least most of it. We still have makeups and some...

TLN bloggers, like most committed teachers, won’t be lazing around the beach this summer. In fact, they’re just getting their second wind. Renee Moore (TeachMoore) is considering the implications of a recently released Teacher Working Conditions Survey in Mississippi, where...

A quick note from Claus von Zastrow, executive director of the Learning First Alliance and keeper of the LFA blog site Public School Insights: All three installments of our Dave Eggers interview are now online. The last of these installments...

A “clash of the generations” is taking place in schools across the country, “as more and more Millennials —those born in 1978 and later —move into the teaching ranks.” So says this story from the Tools for Schools newsletter (May...

Are you doing interesting work around 21st Century learning? Engaging your students with digital tools and then pushing them up Bloom's ladder with project- and problem-based teaching strategies? If so, have we got a conference for you -- and you...

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