Several articles litter my desk, downloaded from cyber space. Educators all over the country rant and rage over what’s going on in schools; modern day bull sessions. Everyone’s an expert. It’s hard to tease out fact from fiction. Funny how life works. Several years ago when I was working on my dissertation, I read an […]
My experiments with truth in education. I thought I’d swim, float, back stroke even. Then, tread water with the doggy paddle. But I’m drowning. It’s temporary, I know, but as I look out over the horizon I see the next high tide pouring in to wipe out the rest of the little folks like […]
Lesson today on voice in 6th grade reminds me of the lesson in writer’s workshop where non-stop writing happening and that was supposed to be a lesson on voice. Child named Nylah exclaims, what is the purpose of this activity and I ask her (ever so politely) what do you think? Another child chuckles and […]
My words have become tiny. They are scribbled down between loose leaf paper lines, a tiny cursive reminiscent of a young boy and a felt tipped pen. Little scrappy words huddled together in the crack above my bed, the jagged yellowish claw the rain brought in, the one that I called ‘cousin’ because I knew […]
There are a few things one can learn on the other side, the other camp. One thing that is paramount is the existence of camps. Obama comes to mind, constantly criticized for wanting to work with the guys (gals) on the other side of the line. Bipartisanship. Like the fabulous Broadway musical Wicked when the […]
There’s a scene in Avatar when He talks into the camera, doing “science.” Funny how he was his brother’s twin, and yet they were so different.Two lives living the same dream–someone else, and yet the same. Today was a bad day, Groundhog Day, ended badly because all the kids who had worked so hard […]
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