Archive for the ‘teacher spotlight’ Category
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Some people just get lucky with the cool names. Though I suppose Bud probably got a bit of teasing from his name growing up.
Bud seems to be one of those cool teachers who is comfortable using technology. He goes to Ed tech conferences and talks to other teachers about technology ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Larkin High School in district U-46 Elgin Illinois. You may remember this district as I wrote a story about the new superintendent a short while ago. It looks like the new superintendent already has his first big decision to make.
Last year vocal choral director, Damon Carlson, resigned from the ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Here we go, students at Naperville Central High School have published a package of stories about drug use. Now some in the administration, including principal Jim Caudill (who incidentally was reassigned to the central office for plagiarizing a speech), feel that the students have gone over the line. Now Linda ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Back in early May I touched on a story of a Washington state teacher who refused to administer the WASL test (Washington's state test for NCLB). Carl Chew, a teacher at Nathan Eckstein Middle School, was suspended for his refusal.
About a week later Doug Ward, a teacher at Cullowhee Valley ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Warning: the following story made me cry with pride.
Good Tuesday. A friend of mine sent me a link to this story on MSNBC. It took me nearly a day to actually open the email. I’m glad I finally did.
For the past several days, the blog posts here were pretty ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Good Tuesday. I am trying something new. And since I generally do not try new things, this post constitutes a double novelty:
the new thing
this in itself that I am venturing into something new
Here's how it will work; my job is to bring sexy back to education. Call me the Justin ...
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