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Dan on Carver on Classroom management

Posted in Education, Food For Thought on Jul 24th, 2008

dy/av : 006 : carver’s classroom management from Dan Meyer on Vimeo.
I love it. Don’t take it personal. It’s all part of the job.

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Dear Bill

Posted in America, Education, Technology on Jun 27th, 2008

Dear Mr. Gates,
It has been one hell of a ride with you at the helm of arguably the greatest and most influential corporation humanity has seen since the East India Trading Company. Your innovations and leadership have transformed the world in a speed unparalleled since the Industrial Revolution. And to think, you’re a philanthropist to [...]

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Hard Times at Douglas High

Posted in America, Education, Issues of Race, issues of class on Jun 25th, 2008

Hard Times at Douglass High - Clip 4by HBOclips
Hard Times at Douglas High, an HBO documentary, purports itself to be an expose on President Bush’s failed No Child Left Behind act. The film is more of an indictment on concentrated poverty and castrated school systems who have neither the desire nor the tools to assist [...]

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?uestlove on Obama

Posted in Activism, America, Black History, Education, Food For Thought, Hip Hop on Jun 9th, 2008

Real talk.

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Technology in the classroom

Posted in Education, Engineering, Food For Thought, Math, Science, Software, Student Resources, Technology, students, teaching on May 29th, 2008

What THEY think is going on
The bosses say that the “21st century learner” has to power down when they come to school. They say that this student who grew up on getting information from screens, Ipods, Google, AIM, Myspace, etc should be using the same tech at school to learn standards based instruction. They would [...]

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Dear Fall

Posted in Education, Engineering, Leaders of The True School, Whatever is on my mind, students, teaching on May 23rd, 2008

Dear Fall - Lupe Fiasco
The school year ends today. I have a few days of post planning but no more students after 3:45pm today.
Honestly, I can’t wait. We’re going to build mousetrap cars today and I promised the kids that I would show them my old high school year books. They really like it when [...]

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Kathy Cox Tosses Out Scores

Posted in Education, GA, Whatever is on my mind on May 22nd, 2008

Have you read this ?
Wow.
Georgia is not doing much to improve the reputation of its educational system. I’ve had my share of qualms with the CRCT and the way that the standards were rolled out but never did I think I would see the day when the leader of Georgia’s educational system would backtrack [...]

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CRCT 2008 - Day 2

Posted in Atlanta, Education, GA, Whatever is on my mind on May 19th, 2008

Well, the scores are in at my school and the scuttlebutt is that math scores are terrible overall, which is pretty much in line with what I’ve read about the results from other counties.
Hopefully I’ll have more to report on the results tomorrow but I expect to have shown some personal improvement over last year’s [...]

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CRCT 2008 - Day 1

Posted in Education, Whatever is on my mind, students, teaching on May 17th, 2008

CRCT 2008 News
The CRCT is the standardized test used in Georgia to determine how schools and students in grades 1-8 are performing compared to state created performance standards.
Georgia changed from the less rigorous Quality Core Curriculum (QCC) around 2005 to the new more rigorous Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) in order to meet No Child Left [...]

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The Power of Words

Posted in Education, Food For Thought on May 17th, 2008

Powerful.

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