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Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Swimming Lessons

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My heart aches tonight for a child I didn't know.  Billy Dunn was about to turn 19, and he loved fishing and swimming, and he drowned ...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Guest Post: A Parent Reviews Her Child's M-STEP Results, and Learns...

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A guest post by Naomi Zikmund-Fisher about the M-STEP results, and what they mean. Last week, we finally received my children’s scores ...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

If Teaching Were A Sport...

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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this TeachingCenter spoof by Key and Peele...if you are a fan of ESPN's SportsCenter you will recognize a lot of themes...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Politicians, Debates, and State Standards

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Another guest post from A3 Teacher: A large part of teaching students how to think, read, and write is getting them to express their ...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Five Things You'll Want to Know--In No Particular Order

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1. Jenna Bacolor, Director of Ann Arbor Public Schools Rec & Ed, asked me to post this:  The Ann Arbor Public Schools and the City of...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Can an On-line Course Teach Poetry Slams? A Guest Post by A3 Teacher

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This is Part 2 of two posts about online learning by A3 Teacher. Here is Part 1 . Last week I wrote about my experience as a student tak...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

My Experience with Online Learning: A Guest Post by A3 Teacher

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This is Part 1 of two posts about online learning by A3 Teacher. Online learning opportunities abound now. How well do they work? Th...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Testing, Testing, Testing: Tale #1

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1. About cartooning I admit, I love my little cartoon , The Parable of the Hammer . But I would hate to be as obscure as Bezonki  (althou...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

It's Constitution Day!

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United States Post Office Department, via Wikimedia Commons Looking for resources on the Constitution, for today or the future? Here i...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Standardized Testing Season: Did You Want to Opt Out?

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It's standardized testing season and I have a whole lot to say about that (very little time, though!). But my friend Heather shared her...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Blueberries and Kids

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I will post about the superintendent search after both candidates have come for their final visits. From Wikimedia Commons In the mean...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

Checking for Plagiarism

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Last year, a friend of mine who was doing adjunct teaching at Eastern Michigan University posted on Facebook that in a class of 30 students ...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Teachers: Paragon or Pariah?

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Friday, I got an email from my sister at one in the afternoon. "Lynn's kids were at that school. They are safe." One of my ...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Back to Local News: Ypsilanti/Willow Run

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It sometimes happens that I don't get to write about what I want. Limited time on my part, and the dramatic state legislative agenda hav...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Sign of the Week

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Monday, April 9, 2012

The Choosing, Looping, and Making of Teachers

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My friend's daughter co-writes a blog about Jewish texts. (You can find it here .) In a recent post , Maya writes: Our learning for t...
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