First 2 days: the forensic report
Student teams building bird houses on the first day of school.
Leading From The Heart
by Tracy Rosen, teaching & consulting since 1996, blogging about it here since 2007. All views are my own and you should take them with a grain of salt, I do.
high school
homework revolution
I just read a post by Elona Hartjes at Teachers at Risk on homework and came across this wonderful twist on homework: I like Damion Frye’s approach to homework. He teaches grade nine, and for the last three years has been assigning homework to parents. Yes, that’s right. He’s been giving homework to parents. So … homework revolution
remaining curious
Image: Ghetto Curious George by the Frankfurt School made available on flickr by a creative commons license. (crossposted at leadertalk) About a week and a half ago, the night before beginning at a new school, I wrote a post called Allowing Curriculum Planning to Remain Curious. I wrote about how I needed to remain curious about … remaining curious
The resilience of teacher culture
Image: Crystal by louisa-catlover made available on flickr by a creative commons license. I found this little video (link at bottom of post) through Dr. Scott McLeod’s blog dangerously irrelevant It is a speech given by Dr. Richard Elmore and it is a sobering description of a present reality in today’s schools that cries out … The resilience of teacher culture