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Friday, July 8, 2011

My Top Links for the Week 7-8-11

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(a.k.a  The links I liked enough to leave open in my browser all week and now really want to close)  1.   http://nasspblogs.org/principaldi...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

My Response to David Brooks and all the Education Deformers

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(I wrote this as a comment to  http://takingnote.learningmatters.tv/?p=5183  ) I disagree that an entire re-vamping of American education i...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

A Date with Teach for America

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A couple of years ago, I went out on a date with a guy who worked for Teach for America.   At the time, I was a starry-eyed naïve little gra...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Miracle School? Ha!

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During my time as a special education teacher in an inner-city Chicago Public School, I desperately sought out ways to improve the shamefull...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Lay Off the Teachers, In Terms of Rhetoric That Is…

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Education reform rhetoric is sweeping this nation.  The media hails work of tough change-agents like Michelle Rhee, who receive praise for a...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Lean on Who, Exactly?

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The other day I watched the movie Lean on Me , which I hadn't seen for years.   You’ll remember the story of the no-nonsense principal, ...
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I'm a special education teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. I've taught kids with severe emotional/behavioral disorders on an inpatient psych unit in Chicago and ESL in Japan. I love my kiddos (^-^)/
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