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Nurse Leverage
Kristen McConnell, a nurse with an opinion, got 5 minutes of fame last week, and I take exception to nearly all of it… starting with her using the fact that she’s a nurse in the midst of a pandemic to … Continue reading
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Grief Anniversary
I don’t know if this is helpful. The world shifts with the loss of your mother. It is forever divided into two parts… life with her in it and life without. She is changed by death, and we are changed … Continue reading
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Today it’s about Michael Vick
To all the people who argue that Michael Vick did his time and paid his debt, I know. It’s hard for you. He was a great quarterback or whatever… But, he was also something else. Here’s your trigger warning. If … Continue reading
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RIP John Taylor Gatto
John Gatto was my mentor teacher my first year of teaching in NYC circa 1990. I think he’d already been named NYC Teacher of the Year twice by that time although I didn’t know it. He would leave teaching the … Continue reading
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Pondiscio is Right; Pondiscio is Wrong.
On Standards and Content Pondiscio is right. He argues almost daily for standards in skill acquisition… often focusing on issues of early reading. He regularly calls for a return to explicit phonics instruction.(Right there with you, RP.) Decoding as a … Continue reading
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Letter to Vinson on Facebook
Vinson and I went back and forth on this image on facebook. He says basically… don’t trip and re-elect Trump. You may have to hold your nose. To which I say this: (ps… This is not about HRC. I voted … Continue reading
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antithesis and the facts of life
America is a bi-partisan members only club You count as a fetus but not as a kid. You count as a kid but not as a worker. You count as a young worker but not as an old worker. You … Continue reading
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Comment Left
Comment left on a post by a writer named Zachary Wright who wrote a quick little piece for Education Post. Apparently, Wright had a long career in the classroom. He was a teacher of the year… a finalist for something something…. he spent 8 … Continue reading
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The Babies are in the Bathwater
Last summer, my husband was flying his little drone around the yard and it got tangled in a pine trees out of reach at 30 feet up. I didn’t care about the drone. But, I got invested in solving the … Continue reading
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You Need to Show Me
It wasn’t a surprise when Betsy DeVos observed teachers “waiting to be told what they have to do.” If there was anything surprising it was that she bothered to comment on it. It marked her as an outsider. Everyone … Continue reading
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