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01 Dec 09

Building bridges to families - JSOnline

  • Studies have shown that family engagement matters when it comes to student achievement, especially among economically disadvantaged learners.







    And yet education schools rarely require teachers - the primary link to families - to receive any training on how to build quality school-home relationships.

  • "What responsibility do we have to take leadership roles in the community and actively try to change the conditions outside the classroom? And if this is a necessary task for teachers, who organizes it? Who trains us? How do we maintain such activism without affecting the time we already have to put in before and after school?"
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30 Nov 09

Forest Kindergarten at Waldorf School in Saratoga Springs - NYTimes.com

  • The children’s “classroom” is 325 acres of state parkland known as the Hemlock Trail, and a long-empty farmhouse, which the state has licensed Waldorf to use for the year. The school also has regular indoor classes at its main building.

Midnight in Dostoevsky : The New Yorker

Great technique for unfolding the story. Loved how the characters themselves are so engaging, and how they then are so engaged with creating characters.

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Rowland Unified teachers enhance teaching strategies at no cost at mentoring program - Whittier Daily News

  • "We're looking for good instructional leadership and the commitment to the idea that you can improve student learning by improving the quality of teaching,
  • Mentors in the program are released full time from their teaching positions and are paid through the Cotsen Family Foundation.
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20 Nov 09

Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs | The American Prospect

  • Twilight isn't a literary masterpiece and doesn't need to be. There is, I would argue, a place for fantasies like these -- specifically, a place in the lives of adolescent girls, who often find actual teenage boys more intimidating than the fictional vampire variety, and for whom imaginary worlds (where no one has to grow up, where danger is the prelude to a rescue, where boys have no hidden agendas aside from loving you forever) can be a shelter from the terrors of puberty. The books are silly -- and have been roundly critiqued by feminists -- but they speak to a legitimate need.
  • Twilight is more than a teen dream. It's a massive cultural force. Yet the very girliness that has made it such a success has resulted in its being marginalized and mocked. Of course, you won't find many critics lining up to defend Dan Brown or Tom Clancy, either; mass-market success rarely coincides with literary acclaim. But male escapist fantasies -- which, as anyone who has seen Die Hard or read those Tom Clancy novels can confirm, are not unilaterally sophisticated, complex, or forward-thinking -- tend to be greeted with shrugs, not sneers. The Twilight backlash is vehement, and it is just as much about the fans as it is about the books. Specifically, it's about the fact that those fans are young women.


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Class Struggle: Term papers are worth the time and trouble - washingtonpost.com

  • Students who have been forced to do well-researched essays tell me those were the most satisfying academic experiences of their high school years.
  • Why not junk some of the high school history requirements in favor of one solid month devoted to one long paper, with students bringing in their work, step by step, every day?

Learning to Teach to Bridge the Achievement Gap - NYTimes.com

  • “The key is not the collection of data. It’s how you translate that data into the way that teachers’ classroom instruction changes.”
  • Anderson also has put in place more computer-based instruction in reading and math, allowing children to learn at their own level and pace.
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Learning to Teach to Bridge the Achievement Gap - NYTimes.com

  • “educators are notoriously bad at adopting others’ good ideas.”

iPhone Goes Young | NBC Bay Area

  • The software and book-like construct combination offers a child and parent the opportunity to read interactive stories or learn simple math lessons together.
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