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MORAL PURPOSE WRIT LARGE By Michael Fullan, Ph.D.

MORAL PURPOSE WRIT LARGE

By Michael Fullan, Ph.D.

The pressing goal is to infuse spiritual force into all educators.



 The expanding interest in moral and spiritual leadership in education is an alluring but complex phenomenon. People can be automatically attracted to or repelled by the emphasis on the spiritual.

First, an explanation of the terminology. Both terms—"moral purpose" and "spiritual leadership"—have…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 21, 2013 at 7:01pm — No Comments

Bullying as True Drama By DANAH BOYD and ALICE MARWICK

The New York Times


September 22, 2011

Bullying as True Drama

SL 2.0 Note:  This is a dated article but not "out of date."

THE suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer, the 14-year-old boy from western…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 21, 2013 at 6:52pm — No Comments

The Common Core War (what is it good for?) - Thomas B. Fordham Institute



Thomas B. Fordham Institute

The Education Gadfly

In the latest dust-up over the Common Core, the inclusion of some (arguably) violent,…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 21, 2013 at 6:22pm — No Comments

Change Standards, Test Students, Measure Schools By Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers

Change Standards, Test Students, Measure Schools

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Further Response to Diane Ravitch on Common Core By Marc Tucker

Further Response to Diane Ravitch on Common Core

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Student Responsibility for Learning By Walt Gardner

Student Responsibility for Learning

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It's the Students, Stupid by Will Fitzhugh

It's the Students, Stupid

The billionaires' club, with their long retinue of pundits, researchers, and other hangers-on, are giving their attention, some of the time, to education. But they are not paying attention to the academic work of students, or to their responsibility for their own education.

Mr. Gates spent nearly two hundred million dollars recently on a program for teacher assessment, but does he realize that in almost every class there are…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 21, 2013 at 3:21pm — 3 Comments

The "Reggio Approach" to 0-99 Education: A Deep Exploration of Continuity by ADAM PROVOST

The "Reggio Approach" to 0-99 Education: A Deep Exploration of Continuity

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Added by Michael Keany on March 21, 2013 at 3:03pm — No Comments

Ten Tips for Becoming a Connected Educator by ELANA LEONI

Ten Tips for Becoming a Connected Educator

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'Garbage In, Garbage Out' from Bridging Differences by Deborah Meier

'Garbage In, Garbage Out': Version 2

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How Does Your School Have Fun? by Bob Lenz

How Does Your School Have Fun?

Recently, I listened to a story on NPR's All Things Considered called…

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Re-Imagining the Comprehensive High School by Adrienne Curtis Dickinson

Re-Imagining the Comprehensive High School

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How Your School Compares Internationally By Stu Silberman

How Your School Compares Internationally

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The Verdict on Steubenville: My Students' Reactions to Rape and Jock Culture By Ilana Garon

The Verdict on Steubenville: My Students' Reactions to Rape and Jock Culture

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Making Sense of Steubenville By Sam Chaltain

Making Sense of Steubenville

As educators, what are we…

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Lance Armstrong and Teaching Students the Meaning of Integrity By Joseph W. Gauld

Lance Armstrong and Teaching Students the Meaning of Integrity

Premium article access courtesy of Edweek.org.

The saga of Lance Armstrong continues. Still attempting to rehabilitate himself, he most recently said in …

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Info for Parents: 24 Blogs Filled with Ideas on How to Motivate Your Kids to Finish the School Year Strong

24 Blogs Filled with Ideas on How to Motivate Your Kids to Finish the School Year Strong

2013 MARCH 19
by Michelle

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my …

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Added by Michael Keany on March 20, 2013 at 10:34am — No Comments

Talent Isn't Fixed and Other Mindsets That Lead to Greatness - Interview with Carol Dweck by Jocelyn K. Glei

Illustration: Oscar Ramos Orozco

Talent Isn't Fixed and Other Mindsets That Lead to Greatness

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Added by Michael Keany on March 19, 2013 at 11:23am — No Comments

20 of your songs that changed the world - Teachable Resource

20 of your songs that changed the world

BBC News Magazine

Clockwise from top left: The Specials' Free Nelson Mandela; Billie Holliday's Strange Fruit; David Hasselhoff; Joan Baez and Bob Dylan

Can a song really help change the world? A recent Magazine feature raised this question, and hundreds of readers responded.

Fifty years ago, Barbara, a French singer of Jewish descent, wrote the song Goettingen about a German city she loved. Many believe her song helped …

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