ATL Teacher
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Education, Food For Thought, Student Resources, Whatever is on my mind, issues of class, students, teaching on May 17th, 2008
I was here reading this and was again inspired by my fellow edubloggers out there.
College does not necessarily equal success to many people. My wife has a friend who is a hair-dresser who is making over 6 figures every year and the guy is 25 years old. No college.
I have a friend who went to [...]
Posted in Whatever is on my mind, students, teaching on May 17th, 2008
I was over at Jose Vilson reading his post about educational carnivals and he stated something that my co-workers and I often argue about; the need for a national curriculum and standardized test.
State’s rights aside, math and the sciences are supposed to be universally accepted truths about the world and as such there is [...]
Posted in Hip Hop, Identity, Issues of Race, Leaders of The True School, issues of class, students, teaching on May 7th, 2008
*Yo, if this is the future of New York rap, please count me in…son is a beast! His vocab is amazing and his flow makes me think this is what Lil Wayne would sound like if he stopped getting high and actually took out a pen and pad and tried to write coherent, inspiring, original [...]
Posted in Education, Food For Thought, Quote of the day, Whatever is on my mind, students, teaching on May 4th, 2008
A word to the wise ain’t necessary - it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby
I never know if I should add a question mark to the end of sentences like that…ahh well. This is why I teach Math and not English.
The school year is winding down and I couldn’t be happier. Warm [...]
Posted in Atlanta, Education, Food For Thought, Student Resources, students, teaching on Apr 23rd, 2008
Teacher Attacked in Atlanta
Teacher Attacked in Alabama
Teacher Attacked in Oklahoma
Lately, I’ve noticed a large number of physical attacks on teachers by students and parents…and I’m very concerned. Obviously I have some concern over my own personal safety. I’ve had students square off on me and take that “I’m ready to swing” on you stance and [...]
Posted in Activism, Education, Food For Thought, Student Resources, students, teaching on Apr 5th, 2008
I just had a radical ( in terms of modern education and accountability ) idea.
What if, instead of students taking just one standardized test per year that measures the child against a set of absolute standards resulting in pass/fail evaluations of student and school performance…each child takes the same standardized pre-test during the first week [...]
The job has been getting to me lately. I put everything I have into it everyday and many of my coworkers aren’t doing the same. It makes a difficult situation even worse. Kids are rebelling in massive numbers and I’ve been bringing their attitudes and defensiveness home with me, which is not a good thing.
Spring [...]
