Category Archives: professional development
Out Of Service Inservice
Warning: Likely Pointless Raging Against the Machine Ahead Summer wouldn’t be summer if it didn’t come to an end–and today is that day for me, at least officially. I’ve been in the classroom for many hours this month, of … Continue reading
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Transparency Can Be Good For You–Or Me
Caution: Brain Dump Ahead Today at RCWP’s Tech Matters I presented myself as a case study on the theme of collaboration. Aside from sharing a few tools I use to stay connected/networked, like Classroom 2.0 and my Google Reader, I … Continue reading
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Summer Goals Update Part 2
I’m reading the third and final professional book on my summer list. Well, I actually have picked up a few more, but Choice Words by Peter Johnston is the last I committed to finish by summer’s end. I wrote a … Continue reading
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Craft Cracking
I have a rather terrible habit of assuming conscious negative intent when “higher-ups” (or their potential henchpeople) mention professional titles. I anticipate more bolted-on, poorly supported shifts in curriculum and practices that don’t end up benefiting students as promised and promoted. … Continue reading
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Summer Goals
Needless to say, my first goal is to rededicate myself to blogging my teaching life/learning. So that I have something to blog about, I’ve got a few other goals to attach to this: Goal 2: Finish Choice Words by Peter … Continue reading
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What I’m Doing Right…For Once
March Madness is not, in my world, connected to basketball. March is Reading Month, making it four straight weeks of near-religious observance of the joys of readng. It has also been the month in which I do my Developmental Reading … Continue reading
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Becoming one-teacher-at-a-time-ish…
Happy FIFTH Snow Day to me… I finished One Teacher at a Time last week (first post here), while at the same time dipping my toe into the criterion-based assessment waters in both Math ( a unit on fractions) … Continue reading
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Shifty Paradigms
Last Wednesday I spent a few hours at my ISD with other 3-5 teachers listening to Jane E. Pollack, author of, most recently, One Teacher at a Time. I thought I was just going to hear a little about … Continue reading
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Mandated Reading Program? No Sweat
So I’m in New York, and with the crazy schedule and general wacky pace of the city, this is the first opportunity I’ve had to blog about my learning at the National Writing Project’s Annual Meeting. Lots of shiny lights … Continue reading
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