I get the importance of rumor control. Hefty words were bounced around in my first period class this morning. I asked my students to respond to the following quickwrite [relating to the novel we’re reading, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time]: Something mysterious happened at Manual Arts yesterday! You are Christopher [...]
I realize you may not be able to hear me over the general choir of groaning that this post will explore current reality television, but I assure you, there is some good news here. I’ve now seen the first two episodes of the current season of the Real World, where not 7, but 8 lucky [...]
Yesterday, I was part of a small cadre that met to sketch out the general direction of a new education-based group. I’m hesitant to use a phrase like “reading group” or “discussion group” specifically because of what were hoping to do here. Like the Beyond Pedagogy group, we’re looking to texts – both educational and [...]
[Words On Wrappers Of Bottles And Food Stuffs] [[You'll Love It. It's A Way Of Life.]]
Sheryl Grant wrote a useful overview of what transpired during Black Cloud Game 1.0. Read it here. While you’re at it, you can check out video from the Humanities 2.o MLA Conference Panel over here. Not much of an update, I realize. I hope to write about this in the next day or so. (For [...]
I stumbled across this interview last week and immediately groaned. Great, another non-educator (yes, this can even include former educators) showing us how to teach. That sounds pessimistic and mean spirited, but it is intended more as a commentary on how teachers are pushed into a passive role within the educational field. As a traveling [...]
I’m tempted to return this. It doesn’t include this. Or this. Inexcusable.
“What is a reflection? A chance to see two? When there are chances for reflections, there can always be two–or more. Only when we are everywhere will there be just one.” – Log Lady
I have previously written about my regular practice of having students evaluate me as their teacher at the end of each term. In an effort to encourage others at Manual to do the same thing, I am posting the entirety of the 19 evaluations I received this year. I realize this sample size is smaller [...]
Glenn Goldman, owner of Book Soup, passed away yesterday. The two years I spent mainly wasting time while on the payroll at Book Soup were fantastic. Although student teaching (and later teaching/completing my Masters), Book Soup was a useful way to get away from the world of secondary education if only for an evening or [...]