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Daily Archives: August 24th, 2007

School Staff Turns Down State Bonuses

Friday, August 24, 2007

I don’t begrudge any teachers a little extra recognition. But the idea that it “will inspire and empower Alaska’s outstanding educators to use their expertise” is wrong. It won’t.
So I was very pleased this morning to see this in the paper:
Pearl Creek turns down state bonuses
By Robinson Duffy
rduffy@newsminer.com
Published August 24, 2007
The teachers and staff at [...]

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Emergence

Friday, August 24, 2007

After a week with my new group of sixth graders, I want to get a handle on the basics of what some theorists call emergence. Teachers call it classroom management, which deceptively implies foreseeable results. Like other complex systems, the classroom is self-organizing, marked by numerous connections and unplanned interactions. These things, it seems to [...]

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