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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Kids, Social Action, and the Three Fires West Park Trail

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One of my favorite books about teaching is The Kid's Guide to Social Action by Barbara Lewis . The book has some inspiration--it has rea...
Saturday, May 30, 2009

Poetry Redux

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On a recent morning, I was listening to NPR, a piece from Planet Money on Recession Haiku . My nine-year-old says to me, after listening to ...
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Sunday, May 24, 2009

H1N1 and Language

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The Ann Arbor school district just came out with updated information about swine flu, aka Influenza A H1N1. While reading it, I noticed tha...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Track Meets!

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This week, for the first time ever, I got to be an "official" at a track meet. It was fun! It reminded me of my time running track...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Drama Queen?

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So, Doris Hope-Jackson retracts her resignation as Willow Run Superintendent . But is it true that she: interrupted professional development...

Observed

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In recreational sports in Ann Arbor, soccer is both King and Queen. In recreational sports in Milan, it seems that baseball is King, and sof...
Monday, May 18, 2009

Next Year in Willow Run

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Assuming that this story is true, Doris Hope-Jackson will not be the superintendent of Willow Run Community Schools for too much longer. Ob...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Dandelion Wine and Other 7-12 Tales

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My friend was telling me about the Ann Arbor Young Actors Guild performance of Dandelion Wine . This reminded me of how, when I was in midd...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Please! Raise My Taxes

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Many schools are approaching the year with deficit budgets. Ypsilanti is actually thinking about adopting a deficit budget--which might not ...
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Monday, May 11, 2009

A Tale of Two Poetry Units

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Recently, two of my kids completed poetry units. In one unit, the students read a lot of poetry, and they had a lot of poetry read to them. ...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

Young Citizens and School Boards

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Sunday's Ann Arbor News had the Young Citizen of the Year Award. There was also a "Where have they gone?" article that was foc...
Friday, May 8, 2009

Hoo-boy!

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Just when you thought things couldn't get worse. I would like to know, who made this "error?" Was it truly an error, or a seri...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Bike, Bus, Walk to School--Curb Your Car!

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Teachers, Aides, Administrators, Parents, and yes--kids--It's Curb Your Car Month! Time for the Commuter Challenge . I see a lot of teac...

Post-Election, Post-Executive Order Thoughts

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In Ann Arbor, the guy who withdrew from the election--though not in time to remove his name from the ballot--and didn't campaign (Adam H...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Election Results

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Monday, May 4, 2009

An Ounce of Prevention...

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Is Worth A Pound of Cure (So says Ben Franklin). As the H1N1 "swine" flu virus is hitting closer to home, schools have some diffic...

School elections

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See the linked article (click on the title). It's true for Washtenaw County, too. Remember to vote on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 anyway. Top 5...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Interesting News of the Week

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First, let's start with the comprehensive series by David Jesse for the Ann Arbor News, on the trials and tribulations of the Willow Run...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

I liked what I saw

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I happened to be inside Pattengill Elementary School recently. I have always felt that you can learn a lot from just walking the halls of a ...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Letter to burned out teachers

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I say, over and over, to my friends, that what makes magnet schools like Ann Arbor Open, Community High School, and Skyline High School good...
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