In the past couple of weeks I’ve gotten several emails from friends and colleagues interested in pursuing a Ph.D. While I’m still very much in the midst (perhaps in the trenches) of my current academic program, I thought it might be useful to share my thoughts about the program, undergoing the graduate study while still [...]
Is this how this works? [An aside: Creating this picture reminded me of Greg's explanation that "the truth is shy," something that I'd like to frame within the context of learning soon.]
Yes, that’s a group of kids learning to break dance at my school. I was thrilled to see it. As I walked away, I walked behind two girls talking: - What’s that? Is that called, like, break dancing? - Yeah, I think so. - That’s weird. It basically being finals week for me, things have been [...]
I want to contrast experiences in my classroom and in one of my graduate seminars. At this point, I can reasonably predict what will transpire in my 11th grade classroom when introducing students to the writing process. Admittedly, the way I teach writing has changed dramatically over the years – the old me would [...]
I’m coming to terms with the fact that my foreseeable academic publishing career will pretty much be stuck in APA format. This is a bit of a bummer. I’ve come to really know and appreciate the elegance of MLA style. It’s a style I can comfortably teach to my students and know they can use [...]
During one of my courses, the instructor encouraged us to have “if not a whole foot, at least a toe” inside some sort of primary or secondary school setting. Of course, still being a teacher, I don’t really have a hard time getting a foot into that door. On the other hand, and this goes [...]
So it’s a late Wednesday night, which means my classes for the first week are finished. (Yes, it’s nice to only have classes two days of the week. No, it’s not so nice to have 8 straight hours of classes in one afternoon – and it won’t be any nicer once B-track reconvenes). In any [...]
So tomorrow is a social kick off event for the graduate program I’ll be starting in a week. It would be a generally wise decision to go rub elbows with my soon-to-be academic colleagues. I’m told that this whole networking thing is the name o’ da game, after all. However, tomorrow – at the same [...]
Look, this is going to have to come out sooner or later so I’ll state it bluntly. In a few weeks I will begin a doctorate program in Urban Schooling. Yes, I will STILL be teaching at Manual. Okay now that we’re all on the same page I’m starting a new blog category as introduced [...]