Entries from May 2009
Education Kills
May 26th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: creativity · education · urban education
So, Domestic Violence is ok afterall
May 24th, 2009 1 Comment
Only a few weeks after Chrihanna gate the internet faithful have been made privy to more senseless acts of domestic violence between young Black entertainers. This time all of the action has been caught on video.
While Charles Hamilton and the young woman in question are nowhere near as popular as Chris Brown or Rihanna their [...]
Tags: charles hamilton · chris brown · domestic violence · rihanna
Digital Natives
May 21st, 2009 No Comments
Digital natives can find you online…why try to hide ?
The babies found me…several of them actually found me completely independent of one another.
Maybe I’ll start posting secrets about my feelings about home work, class work, grades, etc.
Stay tuned!
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I finally get NCLB
May 21st, 2009 1 Comment
I once worked in a building that did nothing but blame teachers for student failure. We had entirely too much oversight and micro management, yet, in that environment brilliant teachers were created. We received an unholy amount of PD and as a result we all became experts in differentiation, culturally relevant pedgagoy, authentic assessment, etc.
I [...]
Tags: accountability · NCLB
My theme song
May 20th, 2009 No Comments
This is awesomely bad…but hilarious.
Tags: Jovan · jovan musk
All The Small Things
May 19th, 2009 1 Comment
My wife shared this with me on google reader and I thought it ws subtle and pretty powerful.
The young man in the photo wanted to see if the President’s haircut felt like his own. For the first time in our country’s history…the answer is yes.
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Mr Rogers goes to washington
May 16th, 2009 No Comments
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Bittersweet
May 16th, 2009 No Comments
My old school made AYP again for the first time since I began work there and I was a huge part in making that happen.
I worked as department chair and as interim academic coach regularly putting in 12 hour days to create engaging lessons for my students. I literally spent thousands of dollars on school [...]
Tags: crct
Meet me at the crossroads
May 14th, 2009 No Comments
I’m finally at a place in my career where I’m making moves on my own terms. I had to lose everything in order to gain it all back again.
My possibilities in this job really seem endless now. I’m free to be experimental, go off on intellectual time wasting tangents that stretch my students more than [...]
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That new new
May 14th, 2009 2 Comments
So…I’ve been at the new spot long enough to know that I’m pretty happy here.
Things are very different than at the old spot but this place has grown on me. The kids are great, the new Principal is very similar to what I’m used to, and there is so much opportunity for growth here.
I [...]
Tags: different can be better · new school · old school

