Archive for May, 2006
Testify: NCLB Reauthorization
For anyone who has an opinion about NCLB, the law is up for reauthorization. The Commission on No Child Left Behind is bipartisan, and will make recommendations to Congress. Those who are serving on the commission are listed , each on their own page with a biographical profile. The committe is diverse. Among others, [...]
Poems: Lost and Found
I put together and album of headline poems on Bubbleshare in an account that I made for the school.
Apparently we can add a soundtrack. That might add a little to the collection.
I have a non-Flash choice (which doesn’t crop the edges of the pictures)They don’t now display on the students’ site, which is running [...]
Decolonizing Education
My classroom is a noisy place. It isn’t the kids who make most of the noise, though. No, the noise comes from the echoes of all the researchers, the rules & laws, newspaper articles and letters to the editor, parent comments, curriculum guides, “best practices” recommendations, my sense of the kids’ needs, and all of [...]
Commit to Being a Flea
In a note to his fellow conspirators on New Year’s Eve 1943, Bonhoeffer wrote: “The ultimate question for a responsible person to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live.”
Miguel has been writing about Dietrich Bonhoeffer lately. I’d never heard of [...]Seed Discussions
From my post, Who Knows Yet, a new idea for classroom blogging occurred to me that I put into practice today. Too bad it’s so close to the end of the year, because this promises to become a mainstay of my instructional repertoire for Language Arts.
Exploring Subversive Potential
My main point with the blog post [...]Blogstream Currents
My SOS for the Alaska Wikia was carried into the blogstream and found its way to Jimmy Wales. He emailed me to suggest merging the wiki with other similar Wikia projects to make it part of a larger project.
I was nearly as surprised to hear from Jimmy Wales as I would have been to [...]
