Just saw this tweet. Felt the need to record it.
The very best teachers spend every day of their lives ignoring or subverting the curriculum
via @paulawhite, via @Neilstephenson, via @kmadolf, via @alfiekohn or something like that…
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This post is going to be about an excerpt from Stephen Downe’s blog summary of Michael Wesch’s talk at D2L Fusion. Wait, you think that was a bit confusing? Before I get into the meat of this post, let’s take a moment to recognize exactly how I found these words.
This morning I decided it [...]
Who would’ve thought that an old standard could be given new life?
My friend Jeff Hall, fellow Human Systems Intervention MA grad, Anglican Priest, and Independent Organizational Development Consultant, turned me on to this phenomenal reprise of Stand By Me via facebook.
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We’re reading Impulse by Ellen Hopkins, a novel written in free verse about 3 teenagers at a psychiatric hospital for trying to commit suicide.
I asked my students to write some of their own poetry, as if they were there with them. Here is one that Kait recently sent me. She has agreed to let me [...]
So. I’ve been asked to talk. I don’t have a problem talking. My students would certainly back that one up, with an eye roll or two to boot. I’ve spoken in front of 100s of teachers. I’ve spoken at my sister’s wedding (made that speech up on the spot). I’ve spoken to small, intimate groups.
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Insight from Alyssa, one of my grade 1o students, who has graciously granted me permission to include this here.
She’s Just Like You
We’re always going to have that one person, that we’re jealous of.
Because, they’re prettier than us.
They have more friends then us. Their parents let them drink.
They’re dating the captain of the [...]
I found this over at Flip Flopping Joy.
I used to love love love Free to be… You and Me as a child. The stories still hold life lessons.
Enjoy. And may you always run freely with the wind.
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If you want to disappoint me, however, buy me a gold-plated heavy duty shovel...
Image: Hallelujah by David Farrant found on flickr
If you are reading this you must have landed here in the few minutes I am using to test my creation of a new database on the new server. kinda scary playing with mysql and php but I think I did it!
about to publish…the real test…
(This shoutout goes [...]
It was written a little while ago, but I only discovered it this morning – this magical poem by Kevin of Kevin’s Meandering Mind.
Listen to it here:
The Creator: A poem for three voices and one person (April 2007)
And go read it here.
Song for the Creator by Frederick McDonald. Image from imagiNATION where you can [...]
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