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The Optimal Dose of Teaching by Ariel Sachs

The Optimal Dose of Teaching

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Ariel Sachs

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Today, after 2 weeks of vacation and plenty of rest, I had the novel opportunity to sub for a single summer school class--yes, just 50 minutes of teaching--and let me tell you, I had a supremely good time. It was the students'…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 12, 2012 at 1:42pm — No Comments

8 Ways The World Will Change By 2052 BY: Jorgen Randers



8 Ways The World Will Change By 2052

Forty years from now, how much will energy cost? What will happen with the climate? Most importantly, will you be richer?



Let me answer some of your likely questions…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 12, 2012 at 9:02am — No Comments

The Bully in Us by Adam Kirk Edgerton

Adam Kirk Edgerton

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Added by Michael Keany on July 11, 2012 at 3:06pm — No Comments

School as Wonder, or Way Out by TA-NEHISI COATES

School as Wonder, or Way Out

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Added by Michael Keany on July 11, 2012 at 9:30am — No Comments

Want to run the world? Start by tucking in your shirt.

How Do Clothes Affect Behavior?

 

From the Marshall Memo #443

“Want to run the world? Start by tucking in your shirt,” says Merel van Beeren in this Psychology Today article reporting on research on the effect of clothing on behavior. She describes an experiment by Northwestern University psychologists Hajo Adam and Adam Galinsky (in the Journal of Experimental Psychology) in which…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 10, 2012 at 2:38pm — No Comments

Teachers: Are You Taking Time Off This Summer?

Teachers: Are You Taking Time Off This Summer?

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Added by Michael Keany on July 9, 2012 at 5:02pm — No Comments

What if You Flipped Your Faculty Meetings? by Bill Ferriter

What if You Flipped Your Faculty Meetings?

Dear Principals,

I've got a professional challenge for you: I want you to flip every faculty meeting during the 2012-2013 school year.

Doing so would be a breeze, I bet.  You could:

(1). Use YouTube's video…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 9, 2012 at 4:56pm — No Comments

The Common Bore by Arnold Dodge

The Common Bore

This was written by Arnold Dodge, chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Administration at Long Island University/C.W. Post Campus and a former…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 9, 2012 at 4:53pm — No Comments

Will Teachers Become Obsolete? by Larry Strauss

Larry Strauss

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Added by Michael Keany on July 9, 2012 at 4:44pm — No Comments

21st Century PLNs for School Leaders BY GEORGE COUROS

21st Century PLNs for School Leaders

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Added by Michael Keany on July 7, 2012 at 10:07am — No Comments

Beyong the Rubrics: How Effective Teachers Create the Conditions for Student Motivation by Joan R. Fretz

Beyong the Rubrics: 
How Effective Teachers Create the Conditions for Student Motivation”

Joan R. Fretz

Summer will provide us all with some much needed time to think.  This school year, we were continuously bombarded with “have to do’s” and there was little time to enjoy education or work proactively.   Our actions as administrators and teachers are being controlled by the demands of…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 6, 2012 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Q&A: All Students Can Be Successful -- Online 2012 National Online Teacher of the Year Leslie Fetzer

Q&A: All Students Can Be Successful Online

2012 National Online Teacher of the Year Leslie Fetzer

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At a time when a growing number of…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 5, 2012 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Teachers and Tech Use: It's Time! BY HEATHER WOLPERT-GAWRON

Teachers and Tech Use: It's Time!

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Added by Michael Keany on July 4, 2012 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Teachers Should Be Evaluated Like Athletes: Here's Why by Hunter Gehlbach

Hunter Gehlbach

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Added by Michael Keany on July 4, 2012 at 10:30pm — No Comments

What Would the Founding Fathers Say About Evidence-Based Reform? by Robert Slavin

Robert Slavin, director of the Johns Hopkins School of Education's Center for Research and Reform in Education, has written a new blog post for the…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 4, 2012 at 12:16pm — No Comments

Governor Cuomo: Veto This Bill by David Singer

David A. Singer

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Added by Michael Keany on July 4, 2012 at 9:54am — No Comments

Testing mandates flunk cost-benefit analysis by Peter Smagorinsky

Testing mandates flunk cost-benefit analysis

This was written by Peter Smagorinsky, Distinguished Research Professor of English Education at The University of…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 2, 2012 at 1:26pm — No Comments

Can the American People Avoid Disaster and (Possibly) Save the World?

Can the American People Avoid Disaster and (Possibly) Save the World?

Not If U.S. Political, Corporate, and Financial Decision Makers

Destroy the Planet First

Denny Taylor

June 2012 

 

To read, please click on the link below.…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 29, 2012 at 6:44am — No Comments

The Education System That Pulled China Up May Now Be Holding It Back

The Education System That Pulled China Up May Now Be Holding It Back

China wants inventors and entrepreneurs, but its schools, built around the notorious gaokao exam, are still designed to produce cookie-cutter engineers and accountants.

 

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A student, studying for the gaokao, naps on a desk during his lunch break in a classroom in Hefei.…
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Added by Michael Keany on June 28, 2012 at 4:04pm — No Comments

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