After the earthquake on the East Coast last week, I guess I had the term “Shake-Up” on my mind. I don’t know which I considered first, the title, or the post.  The beginning of the school year has arrived as many of us do every year, I am wondering what I will do differently this year from those same classes that I had last year. This is something that many teachers consider as they enter a new year. It is also something that many teachers do not ultimately address, but rather settle for…

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Over the course of the last week, I began to notice the days have been getting shorter.  The mornings are cooler.  And the shelves of Target are stocked with boxes of Crayola crayons on sale for forty cents.  I don’t know when all of this happened but I realized with summer fading into the horizon, I better get out there and enjoy its final days before it completely disappears.  So,…

Twenty Movies Every Educator Should See

How to Fix Our Math Education

By SOL GARFUNKEL and DAVID MUMFORD

How Teachers and New Administrators Can Lead Together

A few weeks ago, the faculty at my school received an unexpected call from our principal. He used the synchronized messaging system that delivers phone calls to all of us at once, usually announcing weather delays and PTA meetings. And even though I was…

My BS was in Computer Science. I worked for over 20 in the software business. At the age of 45 I was fortunately laid off and was able to reviewed my life. I wanted to find a profession in which I could earn enough of a living  tto support my family (3 children - single mom) while contibuting to the general good of our society. I decided to become a teacher.

I called my local district HR person. She told me that older teachers were not considered for elementary positions…

I have been teaching a course in interdisciplinary instruction for teaching candidates for many years. Currently, I use my own book in which I propose approaches to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary instructional unit planning. I retired from full-time teaching in 2008 but have continued to teach the course in the fall semester each year. Anyone interested in the specific interpretations I give to the interdisciplinary methodology may want to look at a website I use for students.…

How Do We Prepare Our Children for What’s Next?

Paul Schultz

What kids learn at a young age will determine whether they're prepared for a future full of unknowns.

When most of us were deciding what to major in at college, the word Google was not a verb.…

The Hidden Costs of Higher Ed

By NOAH S. BERNSTEIN

NY Times

Ten Tell-Tale Signs that It’s Time to Get Back to the Classroom

This is the listing of all of the videos from #140EDU Conference. Please feel free to share these videos with your friends and colleagues:

Chris Lehmann - http://blip.tv/140confevents/140edu-8-2-11-welcome-5465616

Jeff Pulver - …

I am growing tired of the number of posts and stories I read about everyone’s plan on “teacher accountability”. I see too many holes in too many plans to deal with what is being categorized as “THE PROBLEM” with education; bad teachers. Unfortunately, when the outcome of many of these ill-conceived plans like Merit Pay result in failure, that too will be blamed on the teachers for its failure to work and not the fact that the plan itself was flawed. Teachers are in a no-win situation with…