then teaching’s a dangerous profession for you.
Thus, I want to revisit the school report cards issue.
I posted rather quickly upon their release that I liked the ideas of a growth model and of peer group comparisons - and I still do. Because schools should, for fairness’ sake, be compared to similar schools (though also [...]
Possibly not the most exciting blog post in history. Nor the most artfully written. Consider yourself warned.
Robotics: We scheduled two additional practices. Not that much progress has been made in the last few practices, for a multitude of reasons, some technical, some behavioral, some motivational… but the kids got really excited on Tuesday and worked [...]
I was standing in the dry cleaners waiting to pick up my clothes when the guy at the counter indicated that someone was in the window. Sure enough, I turned around to see a lanky teenager grinning his head off and waving enthusiastically. Problem: I have no idea who the kid was. So either it [...]
1. If I were to give up blogging altogether, would I…
A. take a break and end up right back here, writing about teaching?
B. start a different kind of blog, perhaps more personal and less about education, or maybe about stuff I cook, or maybe about life in NYC?
C. do an artsy kind of thing before [...]
like finding out that one of your students who receives services for an attention disorder, and is kind of disruptive but really good-hearted, has a chronic illness that causes him/her great pain and from which s/he is expected to die… that in fact, s/he has already lived far, far longer than expected. I haven’t cried [...]
Maybe your child’s teacher? Or a colleague at your school? Or your own teacher from back in the day, if he or she is still teaching?
The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) is the highest award a kindergarten - 12th grade mathematics or science teacher may receive for outstanding teaching in [...]
As promised, I kept my sixth graders - all of them - in for recess today, as a consequence of their bad behavior on Friday. I basically lined them up in the cafeteria - we couldn’t go outside due to wet weather - in the same way they line up to come upstairs each day. [...]
The sixth graders are not very nice people. We aren’t a community, we’re definitely not a “family,” the word of choice for describing the kind of school we want to have, we’re not all on board the same boat exploring the same territory with the same mission. And surely this is idealistic, but it’s something [...]
but I’ll be cooking my little head off that day for a party in the evening. Still, I hope it’s a success and that it happens again soon, because I would definitely go if the timing were different. Thanks to the poster who posted it in my comments; I’m posting it here instead so it [...]
Asked a few questions about my career, then followed up with a lot about career aspirations. Tons about whether I want to become a principal, and what other leadership roles I’d consider, and whether I’m aware of and interested in the tools they have for getting alums into school leadership fellowships and positions. Started to [...]
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