Month: June 2009

Alternative Schools

I work in an alternative school. Actually, it’s an alternative program within a large school. We have a closed off area of the building with a separate entrance and run by a slightly different schedule – we don’t hear the bells and are just fine with that! I am completing my first year here and Alternative Schools

Challenging Conventional Wisdom, Indeed.

There is a great conversation going on over at the CASTLE book club blog (orange group) about the  teaching of facts and skills. I plan on posting this post over there but my login and password are stored on my home computer, I’m correcting procrastinating correcting English papers at work. For now, I will post Challenging Conventional Wisdom, Indeed.

Professional Development Meme 2009

I’ve been tagged by Greg Cruey, who came across this at Clif’s Notes recently. Directions Summer can be a great time for professional development. It is an opportunity to learn more about a topic, read a particular work or the works of a particular author, beef up an existing unit of instruction, advance one’s technical Professional Development Meme 2009

they were the best of times…

…they were the – you get the idea. Yesterday I signed all of the paperwork then waited around for 5 hours and got the keys to my new house! I didn’t really wait around as much as drove around – luckily my father decided to take the day off of work to accompany me. We they were the best of times…

Know your stuff, then…

…do what feels right. My practice distilled into one sentence, a sweet mélange of head and heart. This past week it’s been repeating like a mantra behind all of the activity – know your stuff, do what feels right. Stuff, of course, bears a lot of weight. Stuff can consist of curriculum, management, theory, school Know your stuff, then…