Student teams building bird houses on the first day of school.
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 how [...]
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 my students [...]
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 to [...]
Private Weston School closes after 90 years
RYAN BERGEN,
The Gazette
Published: Friday, June 22, 2007
I worked at Weston for 5 years – almost 4 as their high school resource coordinator and teacher, and about 1.5 as a substitute teacher when I was back in school myself. It was a special place where everyone strived for excellence in one [...]
“…some middle school experts argue that school reconfiguration is a
costly distraction from what adolescents really need: smaller classes,
an engaging curriculum, personalized attention and well-prepared
teachers.”
I agree!
Instead of looking at complicated school reconfigurations, I would take a much more grass-roots approach. No matter where they are, children in middle-school need classes tailored to their needs – as [...]
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