The long and winding road...

can you teach to teach?

2009-11-19T13:01:07Z

though i think arne duncan's speech on "teacher colleges" was pretty well-crafted, i don't know if i truly still understand the concept of a teacher's college. before i get into explaining why perhaps the most important thing could be to fund the...

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could we please have this instead of the ed research class?

2009-10-23T22:33:11Z

the conversation with rita bender was pretty...sweet, to say the least. i talk A LOT, most of the time unnecessarily, during our meetings and classes. but with this, i really didn't want to. i wanted to sit back and take it in. there were a lot...

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i'm going to jackson...i'm gonna mess around...look out, jackson-town...

2009-10-23T21:57:42Z

Finding information about the city of Jackson that is accurate can be difficult. Depending on the topic, the city might hide the information pretty deep in the Jackson website, or it is buried somewhere inside a 50-something page PDF document. ...

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i didn't know blindfolds were illegal here...

2009-10-23T21:55:35Z

hazing has always been an issue in my life. in high school, every athletic team that i can think of got in trouble at least once during my four years for hazing issues. the marching band got in trouble for hazing. the dance team got in trouble ...

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reach for the stars...

2009-10-23T21:47:14Z

though i initially agreed with this blog (http://garyrubinstein.teachfor.us/2009/08/30/high-expectations-not-so-fast/), when i linked to the post he referenced, i rethought my stance. while i do definitely agree that you can't put too much pressur...

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here i go again on my own...

2009-09-12T19:00:24Z

easily, the hardest things about second year is living up to and living down things you did in the past. as i write this, we are still dealing with the repercussions of a pretty solid fight. there are a lot of fights next to my room and kopanke...

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you do you and i'll do me...

2009-09-12T18:57:43Z

i won't say that i'm the most organized person in the world, but i think i'm pretty good at keeping track of stuff. i've found a couple things that work for me, and hopefully someone can use them. 1. DECISIONS, DECISIONS, DECISIONS. i take a...

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the good, the bad, and the...everyday?

2009-06-25T19:12:57Z

superlatives are always a bad idea. asking my for my greatest success or greatest failure is pretty difficult. i've had a lot of success, and i've had a lot of failure. but i have difficulty siphoning it down to the GREATEST. here we go, rega...

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if i were the king of the world...

2009-06-03T18:09:15Z

...i would have a school district that actually was focused on educating children. i did venture into creating a school district that would do that. below is the link to my school district plan. i think one interesting thing about my school dis...

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second time around...

2009-06-03T17:51:47Z

This summer, I need to practice on three things: 1.) TIMING - For the most part, my timing for my kids has been really effective. I feel that I give them enough time on task and material that they can comprehend it, but as I focus on breaking d...

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