Archive for December, 2010

The Constant

December 17, 2010

Yesterday I wrote a post inspired by a quick conversation that I had with a colleague.  Today I am inspired to write as a result of the responses to that post.  I love the interactions between my face-to-face PLN and my virtual PLN. As  I wrote yesterday, we have to empower teachers to step away [...]

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Teach Students not Programs

December 16, 2010

“What do you think of EveryDay Math?” “Why?” “Because my daughter has some processing issues and I’m afraid the she is not going to be ready for math in middle school.” This was the beginning of a conversation that I had with a trusted colleague of mine.  Her daughter is a fifth grade student and [...]

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What We Should Remember – Practical Theory

December 10, 2010

There is such a rush to monetize education, bring the market to bear, make it more efficient, scalable, replicable… but how do you scale care? How do you replicate listening? Much of what I’m thinking about these days are questioning the pathways to structure those things into schools to make schools more humane, to give [...]

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Thoughts from El Paso

December 8, 2010

Listen! via AudioBoo

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