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The tao of teaching in ambiguity

image: Shadowed Crones by Rudha’an, found on flickr and offered under a creative commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 license. What I love about keeping a blog is the insight I glean from those in my blogging community. The other day I published a post called Understanding the Machine and in one of Christopher‘s comments I found The tao of teaching in ambiguity

Getting to know us bloggers :)

Kevin has ‘tagged’ me in this blogger ice breaker ;) I like the idea of getting to know the people in my blogger community as people and not just bloggers. Copied straight from Kevin who, in turn, blatantly and defiantly ‘ripped’ straight from Graham’s post: Kevin has tagged me so here goes. Cut and paste Getting to know us bloggers :)

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

Up for a challenge, anyone?

a special place closes

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 a special place closes