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Showing posts with label high school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label high school. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2015

Thoughts on Capsule Night--and a Wish

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Capsule Night--not sure where the name came from--in some schools it is called Curriculum Night. First of all, it's fabulous. Fabulous...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Answers: Holiday Gifts for Teachers

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Here are the questions, and the answers, that I got to my survey about holiday gifts for teachers. It is also applicable to year-end gifts. ...
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Friday, June 28, 2013

An Interview. . . With Myself!

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I thought that I would do an interview of myself for a change of pace. You can interview me too, and if you have a question for me you can ...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Should High Schools Be "College" or Be for Getting Ready for College?

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I met Georgina Hickey at the recent Ypsilanti Community Schools meeting that I went to--yes, the one where they chose the Superintendent Tri...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Interesting Meeting Choices Monday Night 2/25/13

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Ypsilanti/Willow Run residents: So you know, based on my previous posts [ here , and here ] that the Ypsilanti/Willow Run school board (...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Horrendous Hazing At My Hometown High School

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(I hope you liked the alliteration of the title. The subject, of course, is not at all funny.) I was rather shocked when my mom told me ab...
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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Foul Play? Fair Play? Great Plays

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A friend sent me this note (redacted just slightly for privacy): Hi Ruth, Not sure if you are interested in this kind of stuff - sort of...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

School Registration: I'm scratching my head about a few things

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Last week was school registration in the Ann Arbor schools, and it left me--and my husband--wondering about a few things. First of all, th...
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Transportation Redux

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If you've been following Ann Arbor's transportation issues, you know that: 1. Back in the spring, the powers-that-be suggested cutt...
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Monday, August 22, 2011

Charter #2: Arbor Preparatory High School

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My initial idea in writing about the charter schools in the county was that I would provide the same information about each charter school, ...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Budget Notes: Class Commentary

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This is the second of two posts on the AAPS budget proposal, but let's start with this: all of the local school districts are having bu...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Courage in Student Journalism and Other Student Newspaper Awards

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Back in the day. . . when I wrote for my school newspaper. . . it was a monthly. It was an after-school club. We laid things out by hand. My...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Spy High: Tweeting the Night Away

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Well, this is my first experiment with tweeting a meeting. I was at the Skyline High School PTSO meeting and I tweeted the meeting. (You can...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Asking the Right Questions

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Rick Garlikov describes the Socratic Method as "Teaching by Asking Instead of Telling." He has an extremely interesting experim...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

There's Lots Going On Locally

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Ann Arbor Public Schools are deciding if they should be open for schools of choice. Here's the proposal , the decision comes next week. ...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Down for the Count

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Yup, it's back...count day for schools. Really, there is greater count day and lesser count day...proportionally, fall count day "c...
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