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Showing posts with label teachers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teachers. Show all posts
Sunday, May 9, 2010

Extraordinary Interventions

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This early morning's Hearing Voices on NPR had a wonderful presentation about a Washington DC student's journey and the extraordinar...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Thriller Dance Roosevelt Middle School Staff West Orange, NJ

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How much do kids love when teachers let their hair down? Darren from GEM sent this video link along: Hey all, Check out this youtube video. ...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

Teachers Selling Lesson Plans? I'm Buying

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As a teacher, I was at my best in front of an audience. But I was lousy at lesson planning in an empty room. I would be at home trying to th...
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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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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Blog of the Day: My Kingdom for a Parking Space

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For those who follow the adventures of Have a Gneiss Day , this blog is a real treat. I found It's Not All Flowers and Sausages throug...
Friday, August 22, 2008

Last Chance to Meet Mr. Fry - Shades of the Sun - at The Fringe Festival

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Anyone who saw Nilaja Sun's marvelous play "No child," - see our report on the trip we made with a whole gang from my former ...
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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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Teaching: Trade or Profession

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A Voice Cries Out blog on teaching as a profession got me thinking (I wish she'd stop being so stimulating so I can go out in the garde...
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Sunday, March 2, 2008

A Teacher's Dilemma...

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... how the DOE/UFT eats its young Unionizing or Truly Uniting? A great post at Syntactic Gymnastics. It was great to see that she got a lot...
Friday, September 21, 2007

What Makes a Quality Teacher? Part 1

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revised They all say it: Joel Klein, Christopher Cerf, Randi Weingarten , Bill Clinton, Eli Broad - the entire mishpucha . "The single ...
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Monday, July 9, 2007

A New Teacher Story - updated

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Scene: Elementary school in a very deprived area of the city. Characters: Principal , Queen bee type, arrogant and abusive. Don't know...
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Saturday, June 30, 2007

Atlantic Yards – and the UFT

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An article on the massive project in Brooklyn in today's NY Times points to the release of documents that were only obtained through a ...

What a farce.....

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We get letters: A teacher who asked for help with a friend who is fighting to keep her license wrote: All the NYSUT lawyers say to either pa...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Another Year is Done

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Posted to The Wave for the June 29th edition: As I write this on the morning of the last day of the school year for teachers and students, I...
Saturday, June 23, 2007

The CEO of a Major Corporation....

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... decides he's had enough of being a captain of industry. So he does something meaningful with his life. He becomes a NYC Teaching Fel...
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Friday, June 15, 2007

In Defense of Teachers: Responding to Ravitch

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(Revised) Diane Ravitch's defense of teachers in yesterday's NY Sun ("Don't Blame the Teachers") led to some comments...
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Monday, May 21, 2007

What It Means to Teach....

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.... a book by Amy Demarest & Ellen David Friedman is reviewed in the Monthly Review. Most of the conclusions seem very reasonable tho...
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Sunday, May 6, 2007

Teacher Certification

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There's a good debate going on at NYC Educator's blog about teacher certification. The issue of alternative certification programs ...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Where's the Outrage?

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Monday night I spoke at the UFT Executive Board meeting, asking, “Where’s your sense of outrage?” as I brought up the incident of the teache...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

Effect of Students vs. Teachers on School Scores

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Pointing to demographics is considered just another excuse by the right wing ideologues . In parts of west Williamsburg schools are undergo...