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All One or Alone: A New Years Message
A Lone gunman entered….That is a haunting phrase we hear all the time when media first encounters a shooter in a building. It is one of those familiar catch phrases that desensitize us to the insanity of modern life in America. Just another lone gunman.
Only recently, as we began to unravel the unthinkable tragedy of Sandy Hook Elementary school, did it’s true meaning take shape. The space between the first two words should not be there. Alone is the world…
ContinueAdded by Barry Lane on December 31, 2012 at 3:30pm — No Comments
The Text Itself: What's Wrong with the Common Core Standards
TheText Itself by Thomas Newkirk
Click on the title link above to read the article
Newkirk argues that the writers of the Common Core have adopted a sterile view of reading that does not…
ContinueAdded by Barry Lane on February 11, 2012 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments
My Trip to Nancie Atwell's Center for Teaching and Learning
Added by Gaetan Pappalardo on March 20, 2011 at 3:02pm — No Comments
A Ballad for My Students
It may seem corny or even creepy
But I have loved you since I first saw your name
Printed on white paper.
Permanently etched in my mind:
Henrietta Jones, Erin Plasiance, Maya Jones,
Christopher Holloway, Justin Jack, Kierra Hart --
The list is infinite.
Even when your names escape my tongue,
Your prepubescent faces remain.
Stained upon my heart. Unchanged by time.
There is just something about a teacher's students.
Once assigned to a… Continue
But I have loved you since I first saw your name
Printed on white paper.
Permanently etched in my mind:
Henrietta Jones, Erin Plasiance, Maya Jones,
Christopher Holloway, Justin Jack, Kierra Hart --
The list is infinite.
Even when your names escape my tongue,
Your prepubescent faces remain.
Stained upon my heart. Unchanged by time.
There is just something about a teacher's students.
Once assigned to a… Continue
Added by Michelle Hudson on January 15, 2010 at 12:36am — 9 Comments
No Child Left Within
No Child Left Within
Paul Epstein, November, 2009
I had too much test today
Need some time outside to play
Get homework done before I can
Math, Spelling, read about England
What don’t kill me make me strong
My mom says they teach me wrong
Big boys outside dealin’ drugs
They got bling, we got bedbugs
Don’t want to be child left behind
But sick to death of daily grind
They say school a waste of time
No decent jobs… Continue
Paul Epstein, November, 2009
I had too much test today
Need some time outside to play
Get homework done before I can
Math, Spelling, read about England
What don’t kill me make me strong
My mom says they teach me wrong
Big boys outside dealin’ drugs
They got bling, we got bedbugs
Don’t want to be child left behind
But sick to death of daily grind
They say school a waste of time
No decent jobs… Continue
Added by Paul Epstein on December 6, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments
Teachers, Masters of the Universe
Some of my favorite memories as a child were playing games with my family.
Saturday night in the summertime was the best. Dad would break out the snacks and Grandma and Grandpa would come over and play Scrabble, Boggle, or cards (Pinochle, Euchre, or Uno). I vividly remember playing games for hours on end because I often missed my favorite show line-ups of the evening: Love Boat, Fantasy Island, and The Twilight Zone.
In my eyes, Grandma… Continue
Saturday night in the summertime was the best. Dad would break out the snacks and Grandma and Grandpa would come over and play Scrabble, Boggle, or cards (Pinochle, Euchre, or Uno). I vividly remember playing games for hours on end because I often missed my favorite show line-ups of the evening: Love Boat, Fantasy Island, and The Twilight Zone.
In my eyes, Grandma… Continue
Added by Amber White on July 10, 2009 at 7:00am — 12 Comments
My Personal Writing Process
We all know about " the Writing Process," as a general theory. We can even recite the stages, Prewriting, Webbing, Drafting, etc.. But what about your own private writing process (see Hemingway's below). Here is a place to post your personal tips and observations on how you write.…
Added by Barry Lane on April 30, 2009 at 8:50am — 4 Comments
Barry Needs Help with Cover Idea
Hey DW Ningers. I am working on an alternative cover idea for my new version of Hooked on Meaning. This would be a second cover for the book that goes on the title page. I have this great idea using the Hulk photo. Trouble is the Hulk, who symbolizes testing and all the anxiety it brings, is about to crush me. I have to be thinking or saying something to augment the reality of the image and create both truth and humor and convey the message of the project: Imagination, fun and writing beats… Continue
Added by Barry Lane on April 26, 2009 at 9:00am — 34 Comments
Readicide : How Schools are Killing Reading and What We Can Do About It
Wasting Away Again in Basal Readerville.mp3
This is the most important book on reading you could read this year. It is written by our own Kelly Gallagher and it tells all the things we do in school to kill the love of reading in the name of instruction,… Continue
This is the most important book on reading you could read this year. It is written by our own Kelly Gallagher and it tells all the things we do in school to kill the love of reading in the name of instruction,… Continue
Added by Barry Lane on April 3, 2009 at 9:30am — 7 Comments
World's Best Writing Prompts/World's Worst Writing Prompts
I know what you are thinking. The best writing prompt is anything you want to write about. Choice rules! But a great writing prompt can illicit amazing writing and stir up stagnant thinking. Photos and music can also fall under the heading writing prompt. This blog is a place for us to share our successes and failures with writing prompts.
Here is one of my favorites. It is in my book "The Healing Pen."
Write an express letter to some in your family or in your past. An… Continue
Here is one of my favorites. It is in my book "The Healing Pen."
Write an express letter to some in your family or in your past. An… Continue
Added by Barry Lane on March 23, 2009 at 10:30am — 12 Comments
Obama believes in Merit Pay: Do YOU???
Today the president made a speech on education and raised the issue of merit pay as a way of improving teaching. The logic goes that you reward the teachers that have the most success. My experience has been that merit pay divides teachers and erodes collegiality. I am not a classroom teacher now,so I would like to know what you think.
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Added by Barry Lane on March 10, 2009 at 11:00pm — 34 Comments
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