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Monthly Archives: March 2005

Fat Bob

Saturday, March 19, 2005

Fat Bob is my snowboard. It’s a fat board – meaning wide. I bought it 3 years ago after my first trip to Alyeska. My kids were still pretty little, but they could ski well enough to go all over the mountain. Not me. I’m too slow. At a busy ski area like Alyeska I’m [...]

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Ecto

Sunday, March 13, 2005

I was doing a bit of site maintenance, messing with the links and such. I wanted to post links on this blog to the other blogs being kept by the folks in the Commweb Class. I ran across a little preview from Chis that mentioned Mac users maybe wanting to check out ecto. Well…two references [...]

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Design

Sunday, March 13, 2005

Last Thursday I was down at central office evaluating language arts texts that the school district is considering adopting. I was asked to do this because I’ve been around for a long time. After you are at the job so long that you feel like part of the corporate furniture, people let you offer an [...]

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Transforming Education: Prelude

Wednesday, March 9, 2005

This post is part of an experiment. I know that it’s good blogging form to keep posts short, if possible. But on some topics, like education, I have way too much to say. So I broke this very long post up into 5 different sections, and named them all thematically. I’m going to post them [...]

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Transforming Education: Other Discourses?

Wednesday, March 9, 2005

I was cruising through my feeds after reading what Chris had to say about incrementalism, revolution, and educational change. He asked (what turned out to be, for me) an extremely provocative question about what educators are afraid of. One of the things that I wondered about was the dichotomy he set up with the terms [...]

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Transforming Education: A Language Lesson

Wednesday, March 9, 2005

NPR ran a story about biased language in the media. Brooke Gladstone interviewed Michael Tanner from the Cato Institute about the Bush administration’s use of the word ‘reform’ with respect to the president’s social security agenda. The gist of this story is that many news organizations have instructed their reporters to refrain from calling it [...]

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Transforming Education: A Noisy Classroom

Wednesday, March 9, 2005

It’s not what you think. It’s not the kids that are making all the noise in my classroom. There are thousands of people putting their two cents-worth in on the subject of ‘what’s up with education?’ and I’m feeling buried under all their pennies. We hear a lot in the media about education reform. Teachers [...]

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Transforming Education: A Challenge

Wednesday, March 9, 2005

The New York Times reported a speech by Bill Gates, who wants to throw his $15,000,000.02 into the conversation. High schools, he said, leave most students unprepared for college and for today’s jobs. “When I compare our high schools with what I see when I’m traveling abroad,” he added, “I am terrified for our work [...]

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All Those Things

Sunday, March 6, 2005

It took some prompting from Chris (How You Would Know Me) to set up this little exercise where I have to come up with 20 things about myself as a form of introduction. It was pretty fun. But when I look at my list I feel kind of…old. I did a lot of crazy stuff [...]

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Hemmorhagic Gastroenteritis

Sunday, March 6, 2005

The vet called us late Friday night and left a message on the machine. She had the blood work results on Olaf and wanted to give us a status report. We couldn’t understand what she said at first, but after repeated listening, we made out the words, “hemmorhagic gastroenteritis.” Of course, I headed straight for [...]

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