December 2012 Blog Posts (75)

The Well-Behaved Teacher: Avoiding Santa's "Naughty" List by NICHOLAS PROVENZANO

The Well-Behaved Teacher: Avoiding Santa's "Naughty" List

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Added by Michael Keany on December 20, 2012 at 1:28pm — No Comments

What does leadership mean? By Peter DeWitt

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What does leadership mean?

By Peter DeWitt on December 17th,…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 19, 2012 at 9:15pm — No Comments

Keep Your Eye on the "Prize"

First blog post since finishing my studies http://wbrennan.wordpress.com

Since September 2009, I have been immersed (I mean really IMMERSED) in my studies at Fordham University's Educational Leadership, Administration and Policy program. If you have been in a doctoral program, surely you have heard the statement - "Keep Your Eye on the Prize." And, you probably know that "The Prize" comes in the form of that new…

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Added by William Brennan, Ed.D. on December 19, 2012 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

Teachers Deserve Higher Salaries With Those Standards By John Wilson

Teachers Deserve Higher Salaries With Those Standards

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Added by Michael Keany on December 19, 2012 at 5:12pm — No Comments

Conn. School Shootings Unleashed Attack on Disabilities, Too By Nirvi Shah

Conn. School Shootings Unleashed Attack on Disabilities, Too

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Added by Michael Keany on December 19, 2012 at 5:08pm — No Comments

From Struggling Teacher to Star Teacher By David Ginsburg

From Struggling Teacher to Star Teacher

Has it been a rough…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 19, 2012 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Evaluating Principals Through Test Scores: Harder Than You'd Think By Jackie Zubrzycki

Evaluating Principals Through Test Scores: Harder Than You'd Think

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Added by Michael Keany on December 18, 2012 at 1:39pm — No Comments

Five Pointers for Accommodating Students with Asperger Syndrome by Martha Palm - Analysis by Kim Marshall

Five Pointers for Accommodating Students with Asperger Syndrome 

In this Kappan article, Minnesota teacher Martha Palm describes how she learned to accommodate Tom, a boy with Asperger syndrome, in her combined 4th-5th grade gifted classroom:

Go visual. For example, Palm posted each day’s schedule on the wall, and found that Tom went straight…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 18, 2012 at 10:11am — 1 Comment

Guns at School By Walt Gardner

Guns at School

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Added by Michael Keany on December 17, 2012 at 4:45pm — No Comments

Brave Teachers and Heavy Hearts By John Wilson

Brave Teachers and Heavy Hearts

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Added by Michael Keany on December 17, 2012 at 4:43pm — No Comments

To a Bright Kid With Trouble(s) By Tamara Fisher

To a Bright Kid With Trouble(s)

Hey there.

Yup -…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 17, 2012 at 4:42pm — No Comments

Trying to make sense of a senseless act.

This is probably the wrong time to sit down and address what has just happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. All of the details are not yet out, but the news media has made many statements and assumptions that…

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Added by Tom Whitby on December 17, 2012 at 9:40am — No Comments

“…barely said a word, but earned high marks.”

These are the words of a classmate of Adam Lanza.  A very bright educator once told me that no one goes through high school unaffected, and that our job is to realize the impact that we have with all of our students.

 

The unspeakable horror of the events in Connecticut is beyond both words and comprehension.   It is far too early to know the root cause, let alone the reason for such a heinous act of violence against the innocence of beautiful young children.  There will…

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Added by David A. Gamberg on December 15, 2012 at 6:50am — No Comments

Arts Education Seen as Common-Core Partner

Arts Education Seen as Common-Core Partner

Michelle Grohe, the director of school and teacher programs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, leads students from the Edward M. Kennedy Academy in discussions about the works of art. In partnership with four Boston schools, the museum uses its extensive collection to help teach some of the common standards in English/language…
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Added by Michael Keany on December 14, 2012 at 8:44pm — No Comments

Feeling ill: Common cold or common core? by Christopher Lehman

Feeling ill: Common cold or common core?

By Christopher Lehman on December 13th, 2012 

Smart Brief

Like seemingly everyone I know, I have…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 14, 2012 at 8:42pm — No Comments

Goodbye, Liberal Arts? by Betsy Woodruff

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE          www.nationalreview.com        

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Added by Michael Keany on December 13, 2012 at 3:45pm — No Comments

A View Into The French School System

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Added by Christine Calabrese on December 13, 2012 at 10:04am — No Comments

New Way to License Teachers By Walt Gardner

New Way to License Teachers

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Added by Michael Keany on December 13, 2012 at 7:47am — No Comments

Sets and the City: Math Museum Opens in Manhattan!

December 12, 2012

Can't swing the $15,000 StubHub ticket price for tonight's 12/12/12/ concert at The Garden?  Well, you can still participate in a New York event this weekend, and learn something, too!  The Math Museum opens this Saturday. 

Visit my Literacy Connections blog for more details.

 

Happy reading and counting!

Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on December 12, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments

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