Yes, I do take offense when I have to defend “teaching and learning” as a field that requires scholarship and research, separate from content and just as important as the study of human development or say, a scientist who studies the brain. Yes, I do take offense when everyone has the answer on how to […]
Forgive me for intruding here, but I find this dialogue particularly interesting. It’s one like others, perhaps—but that I’ve been missing? Are there true educators for “social justice” who do not believe teachers are doing enough—that the ed reform movement is good in that it’s an effort to hold teachers accountable for the first time..and […]
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. ~William Shakespeare Notes. Ceremonies like photographs keep truth at bay. No one wants to put on a bad face for a […]
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 […]
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