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Mr. Duncan: Save the National Writing Project
Dear Arne Duncan, The rumor on the winds that whispers through the halls is that funding for the National Writing Project will soon be threatened. I understand that the Obama administration is moving to consolidate expenses by merging a number of programs into one fund. I realize that the...
“Internet Literacy: The Genre” : CUE 2010
Thank you as well to those of you (wow! there were a lot of you!) who attended my “Internet Literacy: The Genre” session at CUE. As promised, here is the keynote itself to peruse at your leisure. As with everything on my site, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons...
“Podcasting with 70 Middle Schoolers”: CUE 2010
Thank you to everyone who attended my session today at CUE on “Podcasting with 70 Middle Schoolers.” As promised, here is the keynote itself to peruse at your leisure. As with everything on my site, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported...
Part 3 of 3: The Future of Teacher Prep Programs
Well, what began as mere musings, seems to have become a fully fleshed fantasy for what a teacher prep program of the future may look like. It all began in Part 1 of this series of posts. It continued in Part 2, and now it concludes in this,...
Part 2 of 3: The Future of Teacher Prep Programs
In yesterday’s post, Part I of 3: The Future of Teacher Prep Programs, I fantasized about what a credential program might look like years down the line. Here is Part II of my post that will address the following points: The Staff Awards Towards a Differentiated Credential Again, I feel the need...
Part I of 3: The Future of Teacher Prep Programs
My credential program was more of a necessary hoop than a valuable preparation program. My Ed Psych professor read his screenplay to us all semester long. My Methods of Math professor hadn’t been in a classroom for 30 years, and before then, it was only for six months....
Top School Fundraisers
School Carnival Guide, On Sale Til End of February
Whether your school is gearing up for a spring carnival or looking ahead to fall, the School Carnival Guide will help your event to be a great success. This is a book authored by Jim Berigan, who for over a year wrote for the Top School Fundraisers blog. Now...
Lowe’s Toolbox for Education Offers Grants to Public Schools
Over the past four years the Lowe’s Toolbox for Education program has provided more than $17 million to almost 4,000 schools across the country. They don’t just choose a few schools either. Lowe’s will provide grants to public schools and public school parent teacher groups – at more...
8 Tips from an Experienced School Carnival Organizer
Recently, I had a wonderful conversation with Barbara Rypkema, who is the organizer of the PTO Carnival for the Tomahawk Elementary School in Lynchburg, Virginia. We spoke for over an hour, and I learned a great deal from her. Below, I have listed eight of the best tips she shared...
How to boost the sales of your cookie dough fundraiser sale
Let your sellers and supporters know ahead of time about the sale. Make sure they know how much their support is appreciated. Create specific goals for the fundraiser. How much money needs to be raised? How many tubs per person will need to be sold to reach this goal? Set a reasonable...
Discounted Magazine Subscriptions as a Fundraiser
Offer discounted magazine subscriptions to people who would like to support your school or other group. Parents, families and students just go online to order their favorite magazines and 40% goes to the school. These magazines are all offered at discounted prices – up to 95% off newsstand prices –...
5 Reasons Why a Golf Tournament Can Benefit your School
Many nonprofit organizations host golf tournaments to raise funds, but it’s not as common with public or even private schools. Why? A golf tournament can be a significant fundraiser for your school so I would strongly recommend considering one. Here are five really good reasons to consider hosting a golf...
WeboWord-Vocabulary Visually!
DiggSubmit Ciliated: Having minute hair / projecting threads Eyelashes Micro-organisms with thread-like projections for the purpose of locomotion. Pronounced as See + Lee + Ate + Ed. Derived from Latin Cilium meaning Eyelashes. No situational uses from our end today! Can you figure out some cool sentences with Ciliated? Note: We shall be updating situational uses tomorrow!...
Wary: Being cautious and watchful Pronounced as Way (emphasized) + Ree {Listen to it here} It comes from Old English Warian meaning to be on guard. It is also the root of the word – Beware meaning to be vigilant. Situational Uses: During an economic downturn, even the brokers are wary of the stock-markets. Be...
Recede – To go back or down from a certain point; To become less
Pronounced as Ree + Seed (emphasized) {Listen to it here} Comes from Latin Recedere which means to go back. It is based on the Latin cedere meaning to give way, which is the root for: Cede – Surrender something Concede – Grant rights to Precede – To come before Excess – More than enough How many other words do...
Euphemism – A less offensive synonym
Euphemism is pronounced as U (as You) [emphasized] + F or Ph (from Phone) + Mism {Listen to it here} It is derived from Greek Euphemismos [ = Eu (good) + Pheme (speech)] meaning to speak with pleasing words. Situational Uses: In his effort to be extremely polite, he chose to be euphemistic...
Satiate – Satisfy hunger or desire
Pronounced as Say (emphasized) + Shee + Ate {Listen to it here} Based on the Latin root Satis meaning enough which is also the root for Satisfy. Situational Uses / Sentences: She satiated herself at dinner. “The novel left him well satiated for the night. Tomorrow shall be another day.” Post from: WeboWord Unable to follow the daily...
Trepidation – Apprehension; Trembling
Pronounced as Trep + Uh + Day (emphasized) + Shun {Listen to it here} Origin: Latin root Trepidare meaning to startle or to be agitated. Situational Uses / Sentences: The students are looking forward to the experiment with great excitement and trepidation. WeboWord helps eliminate the trepidation that one associates with building their vocab....
Cool Cat Teacher Blog
Daily Spotlight on Education 03/12/2010
YouTube - Social Networking: Horizon ProjectExcellent social networking video from the archives of FlatClassroom projects. Demoing this at MACUL.tags: education, digitalcitizenship, bestpracticesFunny or Die's Presidential Reunion from Will Ferrell, Chevy Chase, Ron Howard, Jim Carrey, Fred Armisen, Darrell Hammond, Dan Aykroyd, Maya Rudolph, Dana Carvey, FOD Team, Jake, and Antonio...
Daily Spotlight on Education 03/11/2010
Google GroupsA wonderful way to share information with a group of people. We use these behind the scenes to manage all of our flat classroom projects.tags: education, learningShare Documents and Files Online | Create a Free Website | Microsoft Office LiveIF you use office, you should set up the office...
MI-Champions: A phenomenal mentoring program in Michigan and other ponderings at #MACUL10
Hello, my friends, I'm in Michigan this lovely evening and just had a delightful chat with my good friends Anne Truger, Hall Davidson, Steve Dembo, and Rushton Hurley - all fellow spotlight speakers here at MACUL 2010. Attendance is up, which is delightfully great news - about 3,300 will be...
Daily Spotlight on Education 03/10/2010
Women of Web2.0.4 - Discussion with Patsy Lanclos | EdTechTalkGetting requests for information on keyboarding research - Patsy Lanclos, who worked with Texas Standards for years in this area gave the most comprehensive discussion I've heard back in an older archived version of the Women of Web 2.0 show that...
John Maxwell in his book Attitude 101 quotes a story from two artists David Bayles and Ted Orland about an art teacher who did an experiment with his grading system. The ceramics teacher told the left half of the room that they would just be graded on the quantity of what...
Daily Spotlight on Education 03/09/2010
EBook Trends and Information from the Horizon Report 2010eBooks are becoming more affordable and with devices like the Kindle, Nook, and soon to be released iPad, ebooks are becoming more practical (as well as environmentally friendly as they save paper.) This trend is predicted to move full scale into...
Kate Says
Look at how pretty and shiny it is!
Okay. I’ve embedded and attached a document here which took a LOT of work, a wee bit of loud language and a lot of ignoring of family members and friends to complete. To put it VERY plainly, the document is a unit plan/book club plan based on 3 novels by Natasha Friend...
Not only am I doing YA Lit this semester, but I’m doing my second round of Content Lit as well – can’t have too much of that, right? Hmmmm. Anyway, feel free to dig through my Delicious links for YA Lit and Content Lit – all kinds of good stuff there....
Booktalk: Perfect (Natasha Friend)
Title: Perfect Author: Natasha Friend Publisher: Scholastic Date published: September 2006 Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction Grade level: 6-12 Booktalker: Kate Olson Friend, N. (2004) Perfect. New York: Scholastic. Background note about the author/selection (Script for introduction to booktalk): Many teenagers deal with the issues that Isabelle struggles with in Perfect – body image, eating disorders, friendships, and grief. While there...
Book Review: Worst Case Survival – Middle School
Borgenicht, D., Winters, B. H., & Epstein, R. (2009). The worst-case scenario survival handbook: Middle school. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. Title: The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Middle School Author: David Borgenicht, Ben H. Winters, Robin Epstein Publisher: Chronicle Books Copyright date: 2009 Age/grade recommended: 6th – 8th grades I bought this book to have in my...
Book Review: Math Dictionary for Kids (Theresa Fitzgerald)
Fitzgerald, T. (2007). Math dictionary for kids. Waco: Prufrock Press. Title: Math Dictionary for Kids Author: Theresa R. Fitzgerald Publisher: Prufrock Press Copyright date: 2006 The Math Dictionary for Kids is a great resource for students. It states on the cover that it is for grades 4-9, but I use it quite a bit...
Book Review: The Luxe (Anna Godbersen)
Godbersen, A. (2007). The Luxe. New York: Harper Collins. Anna Godbersen has created a very enticing and addicting “teen” series – The Luxe. The books are set in turn-of-the-century Manhattan in the center of high society. The series starts out with the book The Luxe, which begins the drama-filled saga...
U.S. Department of Education
Blueprint for Reauthorizing ESEA
The Obama Administration released its blueprint for revising the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to help states raise expectations of students and reward schools for producing dramatic gains in student achievement....
West Virginia will receive $21.9 million to turn around its lowest achieving schools through the School Improvement Grants program....
ED Announces Civil Rights Review
ED will examine the academic opportunities and access of English Learner students in the Los Angeles Unified School District to assess whether they are being denied equal educational opportunities....
The grant application and final priorities for the $650 million Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) are now available....
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act is the focus of our next Education Stakeholders Forum on March 19....
Detroit Discusses Turnaround Efforts
More than 250 community leaders, educators, parents, and students gathered to discuss turning around the Detroit area's lowest-achieving schools....
Boston.com -- Education news
Obama promise: Brighter education futures for kids
President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries. ...
Thousands mourn death of Southern Calif. teen
Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school stadium Saturday to honor a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered in a shallow, lakeside grave as her parents vowed to dedicate themselves to protecting children from sex predators. ...
Obama proposes extensive overhaul of No Child law
NEW YORK — The Obama administration yesterday called for a broad overhaul of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law, proposing to reshape divisive provisions that encouraged instructors to teach to tests, narrowed the curriculum, and labeled 1 in 3 American schools as failing. ...
Lure of for-profit schools can lead to unwieldy debt
NEW YORK — One fast-growing American industry has become a conspicuous beneficiary of the recession: for-profit colleges and trade schools. ...
Called from the suburbs to a Haitian mountaintop
Odette. Benita. Valancia. Atanie. Each Sunday morning, members of White Stone Church spread photos of the girls' grinning, impish faces across a folding table in the lobby, then prayed for the day they might join them. ...
Called from the suburbs to a Haitian mountaintop
Odette. Benita. Valancia. Atanie. Each Sunday morning, members of White Stone Church spread photos of the girls' grinning, impish faces across a folding table before 10 a.m. worship, then prayed for the day the children might join them. ...
NYT > Education
Chicago News Cooperative: Taking a Look at Poverty From an Affluent Suburb
The new president of Elmhurst College, S. Alan Ray, has a five-year plan to to steer the 3,360-student school down a path of service. ...
Teacher Q | Does the 'Gifted' Label Get In the Way of Developing Real Potential?
A guest post from David Shenk, author of "The Genius in All of Us." ...
E.E.O.C. Sees Bias in Almontaser Ouster at Khalil Gibran School
A federal commission has determined that the Department of Education discriminated against the principal of an Arabic-language public school in Brooklyn. ...
Women Making Gains on Faculty at Harvard
The president of Harvard said the university has seen a culture shift since it was suggested there in 2005 that women were unsuited to careers in math and science. ...
Arts | New Jersey: Patrick O’Donnell Leads East Orange Jaguar Bucket Ensemble
The Jaguar Bucket Ensemble at East Orange Campus High School makes its music mostly with drumsticks and empty five-gallon paint containers. ...
Texas Hearing Considers Deeper Conservative Stamp on Textbooks
Proposed changes to the state’s social studies curriculum would portray conservatives in a more positive light. ...
Karl Fisch's Blogs
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Web 2.0: The Read/Write Web - TIE-ing It All Together
A blog in support of a presentation at the 2006 Technology in Education Conference....
Web 2.0: The Read/Write Web - Social Bookmarking
A blog in support of a presentation at the 2006 Technology in Education Conference....
Web 2.0: The Read/Write Web - RSS
A blog in support of a presentation at the 2006 Technology in Education Conference....
Web 2.0: The Read/Write Web - Blogging
A blog in support of a presentation at the 2006 Technology in Education Conference....
School Climate Blog
Help Make March National Whole Child Month
“Practice and policy must work in concert; together we must make the whole child approach to education a national priority so that each child is ready for meaningful employment, continuing education, and active participation in our global society.” - ASCD Executive Director Gene R. Carter Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) recently introduced...
Investing in Innovation (i3) Pre-Application Workshops and Webinars
The final rules for the i3 Innovation Fund were released today. Pick up the details and application package here. Registration is now open for pre-application workshops and webinars. As per the i3 registration site, be sure to only register for one of the workshops OR a webinar. (If you’re not...
National Middle School Association is recognizing educators at the middle school level who make a difference. Know a dedicated educator who has made a significant difference in the lives of young children? Recognize an individual or team for the following awards: Distinguished Educator AwardDeadline for nominations: March 15, 2010Sponsored by...
Another week has gone by, ushering in the month of March! We at CSEE are busy with exciting new projects, such as ongoing professional development, school climate assessment projects, and the planning of our 13th Annual Summer Institute. Here are some interesting links we’ve been passing around the office: The New...
America’s Teachers on America’s Schools
The national statistics about teacher retention are still troubling: one-third of all new teachers leave after three years, while 46% are gone within five years. Attrition has grown by 50% over the past 15 years. What will keep teachers in our schools? The question is not new. Research and insight from...
As part of the National/State Schools of Character (NSOC/SSOC) awards program, the Character Education Partnership (CEP) gives Promising Practices awards to schools and districts for implementing strategies in character education that exemplify one or more of their Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education. If your school or district has developed and...
Artichoke
Is educational research asking the wrong questions about the enacted curriculum?
I have been lost for a while, reading and re-reading Jaron Lanier’s book You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto Lanier’s book explores the unintended consequences of digital design on human culture, identity and what it is to be human......
Gawande’s Checklists: "I know what to do and why thinking".
I cannot remember a time when I haven’t been thinking and or reading about models of learning and designing for learning – it is a personal Pythonesque search for the educational holy grail – I am looking for a deeper......
Acting like a kite, witnessing the future and marshalling resources.
Asking how we identify the future – and how we bring the future into the present form a large part of current educational discourse – especially those edu_conference keynote conversations. Jensen (Witnessing the Future pdf) cites Serres and Latour and......
On Creating A Wasn’t Good, Wasn’t Bad School for Every Child.
I didn’t buy Cyril Taylor’s newly released “A Good School for Every Child – How to improve our schools” because I wanted to read another book on how to do school better. At the moment I drift towards thinking and......
“I am haunted by you” flowers and impossible cream cakes.
I had an unexpected escape from the day job today – and I used it to push off from the screen and drift into the ordinary. I used it to bump up against the stuff that had not been digitised......
“The money is always there, but the pockets change” Gertrude Stein
To allow oneself to be physically re-arranged by another is much like allowing oneself to be mentally re-arranged by another. Both require compliance and conformity, and I guess both require deference to the “power” or “expertise” of another. Physical rearrangement......
nashworld
On Crocodiles and Professional Vision
This quote… …(which is unattributed as far as I can tell) is one that caused pause the first time it crossed my brain. My initial reaction to this was in regard to what happens to the early-service teacher upon logging that first real week as leader of their own classroom. Let’s...
The Extended Value of Classroom Networks
Connected An interesting thing happened on the way home from Educon 2.2 last Sunday night. Walking through the terminal and against my exhaustion, I reflexively checked my mail. Lazy eyes lifted open, I flicked my thumb scrolling… trolling for a demand of action. I’m hyper-connected. I pay for it. And...
The following verse was created in response to and in reflection on the following mass-media story: Sea Slug Surprise: It’s half-plant, half-animal. Overall, this post starts with a bit of participation and play, continues with the story of how the “Sci-Po” fun began, how I gave it a shot in...
I bet this job looks easy from behind a podium....
Decisions: The Currency of Educational Action
Choices… decisions… education. Three simple words deeply embedded within my world. For years I have been amazed while reflecting on the cascade of decisions a teacher makes in even one class period with a typical group of 20 or so students. I felt compelled to...
Growing a Tree of Professional Development
Arboreal aspirations? During a time of the year when perhaps sugarplums should be dancing in my head, I seem to be conjuring trees. More precisely- massive, skyward-reaching, luxurious and well-rooted trees. I can’t seem to keep from dwelling in the metaphor of a tree as it relates to a professional development...
Eric Stoller's Blog
ACPA + Twitter on the BreakDrink podcast
The main topic for today’s BreakDrink podcast was the potential unification of ACPA and NASPA. ACPA President, Dr. Tom Jackson, Jr. was on the podcast to talk about his thought’s... . ...
The Student Affairs Collaborative blog
The Student Affairs Collaborative blog is a popular multi-author Student Affairs site. The SA Blog, as it’s popularly referred to on Twitter, contains a lot of relevant student affairs... . ...
Koichi, the Social Media Marketing Manager at eduFire and WordCamp PDX pal, recently sent me two free things: an eduFire t-shirt and a free month of eduFire SuperPass. While I am definitely going... . ...
The official OSU furlough numbers have arrived…here is the monthly furlough breakdown for 9-month and 12-month employees: 9-Month Employees Monthly Base Salary Rate at 1.0 FTE* Total Number... . ...
ACPA + NASPA + Student Affairs Technology
ACPA recently sent out an email announcement calling for applications for the ACPA Technology Advisory Committee: The ACPA Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) is a member-driven advisory committee... . ...
eduStyle Blog
EDU Checkup: Elon University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Durham College
Just a few things to say about this week’s round of sites. They were overall pretty good, nothing earth shattering but at the same time they didn’t fall flat on their faces. Elon University had a super clean interface and a pretty good amount of information about their programs. They...
EDU Checkup: Saint Michael’s College, University of Notre Dame, Northwestern College
What a great week, the first site Saint Michael’s College really felt dated. The site was designed for an 800px wide screen which makes it feel constricted. There is some movement on the homepage right as the page loads which is really distracting. The second site University of Notre Dame –...
EDU Checkup: Southwest Minnesota State, Saginaw Valley State, Carl Sandburg College
This week’s sites were all rated high overall. The first, Southwest Minnesota State University noteworthy this month did really well. The use of color, spacing focusing on the calls to action really drive the success of this site. The second, Saginaw Valley State University got right to the point, they remove all...
EDU Checkup: LaGuardia Community College, Scripps College, Monash University
It was a week of firsts. LaGuardia Community College had by far the brightest colors I have seen on an institution’s Web site. The site looked like a teacher’s store, especially with the apple in the top right corner. Beyond the graphics the larger problem was finding program information, it was mildly...
EDU Checkup: Royal Roads University, Freed-Hardeman University, Lutheran Theological Seminary
Three sites this week, starting out pretty good was Royal Roads University. The site had an amazing use of white space and positioning. Everything had it’s place and it was easy to scan. But diving deeper the right and left columns stay static no matter which page you are on....
EDU Checkup: Deeside College, Carnegie Mellon University
Both sites this week did a great job! Their scores would have been higher but the code category pulled them down. The first, Deeside College had by far the most calls to action I have seen on a college site. Every page had at least one or two buttons for next steps...
Joanne Jacobs
The Top Ten Myths of Higher Education?
I find this list, by Jay Schalin at the John William Pope Center, to be somewhat suspect. Let’s look at the very first thing we read (which, in all fairness, might not be written by Schalin): Here’s a list of ten commonly-held beliefs in academia that don’t square with what the...
“Get off my lawn!” “Kids these days…” “Nobody makes them like they used to…” Sometimes, and probably more often than we think, the grouchy old man is right. Stephen Zelnick examines one of the problems facing young men these days: As a boy, I revered George Washington and was not baffled by the...
Some of you may have heard of the high school that canceled its prom rather than allow a lesbian couple to attend. But in case you haven’t been following it… the lawsuit has begun! The lawsuit seeks a court order for the school to hold the prom. It also asks that...
The morning announcements will continue as before. A little context: Michael Newdow has made a cottage industry over suing various government entitites for using the word “God”. On Thursday, the 9th Circuit gave him a kick in the teeth over the Pledge of Allegiance. I obviously have a view (a positive...
Some $100 billion dollars flowed into public education from the stimulus bill. Now, $5 billion dollars in discretionary funds is being used by the DoE to try to leverage “reform” Andy Smarick at EducationNext tells us all about why the $100 billion wasn’t used for reform, and why this $5...
Stanford charter school falters
One of the worst-performing elementary schools in California is run by Stanford University’s School of Education, reports the Palo Alto Weekly. East Palo Alto Academy Elementary School, started three years ago, was reorganized with a new principal last fall. It ranks in the bottom 5 percent of schools in the state, according...