Dina in her blog, The Line, is running a great series of posts here and here responding to the book Star Teachers of Children in Poverty by Martin Haberman, which I previously mentioned here that I have just finished reading. Dina links to a recent article in the Washing Post by Sarah Fine, a 4-year [...]
I have never said this on the blog before, but I think I have been hiding it far too long: I get some of my best teaching inspiration in my pastor’s sermons. Often I take his messages and find some way to apply it to teaching. Admittedly, this sometimes sets me into such a deep [...]
Working last week with the freshly minted teachers in pre-service, I commented to one of the teachers about how much I had seen my teaching change in the 2 1/2 years that I now have with my own classroom. Some examples: I have gone from weighting my grades not by assignment type and completion (which [...]
