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carnival of ed May 20
The Carnival of Education is up at The Education Wonks. Some especially interesting-looking titles: “The Link Between Bullying and Psychosis” “A Time for Teacher Reflection” “Yearbook Panic, Brown Bags, and Underwear” and of course, my own “Marta, Melanie and Mary: a screenplay epilogue” Go browse! I will be hosting the Carnival here next week –… Continue reading
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carnival of education May 13 09
The Carnival is up at Rayray’s Writing. Lots of good end-of-semester reading. Continue reading
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first I take the Times…
I am utterly, utterly stoked to announce that my first guest blogging gig is with School Gate, the TimesOnline (that’s right, folks, the Times of London) education blog. Sarah Ebner generously asked me to sign up. I’ll be writing a series of posts on overcoming teacher burnout and learning to love teaching again. You will… Continue reading
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getting one’s learn on: 100 inspiring posts
Learn-gasm, the blog for the website Bachelor’s Degrees Online, has posted “100 Incredibly Inspiring Blog Posts for Educators,” and they’ve included me in their list (specifically, my March post “Who Says You Have To Go To College,”, which they’ve listed in the category “Preparing Students for Life After High School.”) I’m looking forward to browsing… Continue reading
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will more school make us better people?
I’m concerned about President Obama’s assertion that children should spend more time in school. I absolutely disagree; I think children should spend a lot of time learning – in fact, I think they should spend all day, every day, learning, as should adults – but that “school” is only one, and not always the most… Continue reading
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carnivale
This week’s Carnival of Education is up at Jason’s Perspective. Get reading! Continue reading
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this week’s carnival of education…
…is up at Bellringers. Go browse! Continue reading
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carnivalesque
This week’s Carnival of Education is up at Joanne Jacobs. Go get your learn on! Continue reading
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Watching a Fire; Skimming across Water; Painting a Dragon and Dotting its Eyes
I should be marking papers on this, the last day of my Easter weekend, but instead, I’m checking my Twitterific and being sucked into reading blog posts. Clay Burell at Change.org has posted this tantalizing bit of info from Richard E. Nisbett’s The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . .… Continue reading
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Classroom Management and Personal Vision
Came across this post yesterday on The Cornerstone Blog and finally got to reading it today. The blogger is a public school teacher, but her post resonated with my most recent classroom management dilemma. Most conscientious CEGEP teachers will recognize the wisdom in her words. She sums her thoughts up as follows: The commitment to… Continue reading
About Me
My job is to teach people to read and write; aside from that, I like to learn things.
Classroom as Microcosm 