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Showing posts with label students. Show all posts
Showing posts with label students. Show all posts
Sunday, September 11, 2016

The Best PD Ever: A Day With Former Students 37 Years Later

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Sept. 10, 2016  Every teacher should be so lucky to see how the lives of their students turn out even if 37 years later.  I had the imme...
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Running into a Former Student

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With all the attacks on teachers, there are times when even I begin to question things I did as a teacher. Did I really put children first? ...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Former Student — Ernie Silva's "Heavy Light the Weight of a Flame" Returns to NYC This Week

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Heavy Returns to New York!!  July 28th thru August 1st. Tix 10$ Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 8:00pm Teatro La Tea (LA Tea Theater), New...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

What They Remember

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A former 4th grade student from around 1983 found me on Facebook: As I recall, I recieved my introduction to computers from you. At the ti...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

Ernie Silva Show an Allegory for Why Achievement Gap and Teacher Quality Are Phony Issues, Updated

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UPDATE: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 11pm I updated this post today. I saw the show for the 2nd time on Thursday the 15th and it got better and ...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Yankee Parade Brings Back Memories

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This must be "student gets out of prison" story week. (See " So, You Get a Phone Call, Revised "). The Yankee parade r...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

So, You Get a Phone Call, Revised

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Revised Nov. 11, 2009 Last week I received a phone call from J, a former student who was in my 6th grade class in 1973-74. He had just bee...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Phone Home

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To read stories about KIPP, one would think it remarkable that teachers give kids their phone numbers. I started doing that in the 1970'...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Teachers to Be Rated on Chronic Absence - parody

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The release of the Milano report finding that ... more than 20 percent of the city’s elementary school pupils were chronically absent durin...
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Friday, October 3, 2008

Step up to the plate Teach for America

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I posted an article from The Feministe by "Anna" called "Why I Hate Teach for America" on Aug. 24, 2008. One of the thin...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

They're in a Snit at Mimi ....

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...at must read blog It's not all flowers and sausages over how she dealt with a disruptive child who she calls "Big Boy." To...
Friday, June 27, 2008

A Very Gneiss Blog

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There's no blog out there that gives a better feel for how schools really function - the loves, the hatreds, the joys, the sorrows, the ...
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Friday, June 13, 2008

The Story of A and E

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A story to illustrate why the simplistic "close the achievement gap and all will be well" zombies out there make longtime teachers...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Thank a Teacher - Better Than Any Praise by Any Supervisor

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Fourth graders Maria, Daphne and Diane, 1981, most likely on one o f our (numerous) trips. Wednesday night's News Hour had a decent repo...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Memories and Tragedies

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About 10 years ago I go a call on Thanksgiving night from a former student from a correctional institution upstate. He was serving life (and...
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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Black Boy Middle School, Parts 1-3

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I found this as a comment on the NYC Educator blog. Really good stuff: i just want to remind ye teachers what you are fighting for. i carved...
Sunday, April 29, 2007

Ricky....

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.... was in my 6 th grade class in the late 70's. He was one of only 6 boys in the class - there were 18 girls - it made discipline iss...
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