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How to Unleash Creativity

How to Unleash Creativity

“Most people are born creative,” say Tom Kelley (University of California/Berkeley and University of Tokyo) and David Kelley (Stanford University) in this thoughtful Harvard Business Review article. “As children, we revel in imaginary play, ask outlandish questions, draw blobs and call them dinosaurs.” But as the years pass, formal education takes its toll and many people no longer see themselves as…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 26, 2012 at 8:52am — No Comments

Eighty-Six Things I Learned at P.S. 86 by Hallie Fox

Eighty-Six Things I Learned at P.S. 86 (Hallie Fox)

This guest post is written by Hallie Fox, who taught in a Bronx (New York City) elementary school–P.S. 86. She was a student in my Fall quarter seminar on “Good School and…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 22, 2012 at 2:22pm — No Comments

The Best of 2012: My Favorite Books for Parents and Educators by Mark Phillips

The Best of 2012: My Favorite Books for Parents and Educators

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Added by Michael Keany on December 22, 2012 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Students Must Unplug by Bill Smoot

Kicking A Digital Addiction: What Happens When Students Must Unplug

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Added by Michael Keany on December 22, 2012 at 1:51pm — No Comments

Arm Teachers?

I hate the fact that this country has been thrown into this discussion the way that it has. The events leading to this discussion were costly and horrific. As I have stated before we need to discuss the facts and not propaganda or demagogy. We should also examine the facts without emotion which, in light of events and the victims, seems an impossible task. Educators have now been thrust into the discussion as a result of so many schools being victimized. There is also a consideration by some…

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Added by Tom Whitby on December 21, 2012 at 4:19pm — No Comments

The 8 Aspects of Teacher Learning by Sr Geralyn Schmidt

The 8 Aspects of Teacher Learning

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Added by Michael Keany on December 21, 2012 at 2:54pm — No Comments

The science class of the (not too distant) future by John Martin

December 20th, 2012
10:23 AM ET
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Added by Michael Keany on December 21, 2012 at 2:52pm — No Comments

Why Instruction in Second Languages Remains a Priority

 

Second-Language Learning

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Added by Michael Keany on December 21, 2012 at 2:51pm — 1 Comment

To Keep Them Safe by Gerard Dempsey

To Keep Them Safe

by Jerry Dempsey

It is our fundamental task as a human race to support and keep our children safe.  As parents, teachers, leaders, or citizens, we all bear the burden to protect the young and create a world which tries to save them from pain, loss, and especially, death.  Random accidents or acts of violence make this a daunting and, sometimes, impossible task.  However, for the very young, we have created…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 20, 2012 at 3:36pm — No Comments

Teacher quits job via YouTube - In viral video, he says he's fed up with standardized testing

Teacher quits job via YouTube

In viral video, he says he's fed up with standardized testing

Teacher quits on YouTube

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A second-grade teacher in Providence, R.I., has issued a very public resignation that is making its rounds online.

"I've had it, I quit," Stephen Round says in his…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 20, 2012 at 3:00pm — No Comments

New Factors for College-Bound Students to Consider

New Factors for College-Bound Students to Consider

In this ASCA School Counselor article, Don Fraser of the National Association for College Admission Counseling suggests that high-school counselors research the following criteria for students to help them become more savvy consumers of higher education:

• Academic services available – The level and sophistication of support for struggling students is important, even if…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 20, 2012 at 1:33pm — No Comments

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

Social Media in Education

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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

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