Posted in Theory on Jun 25th, 2008 6 Comments »
Teachers often complain about the sheer number of things they are expected to do in their job. Emails circulate listing the various ‘jobs’ a teacher does: social worker, nurse, career planner, coach, librarian, mentor, parent, and more. As I reflect back on this school year I’ve been thinking about the various things a school does [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 16th, 2008 No Comments »
This is in response to Alex’s comment on my last post. The comment pixies are not letting me comment on that post, and the comment was long enough to make another post, so here it is…
Alex, thank you very much for comment, you bring up some excellent points.
First, the answer is in part of your [...]
Posted in Policy, Practice, Research on Jun 15th, 2008 4 Comments »
I was having a brief discussion on Skype today with Scott McLeod where I shared some things that are going down at my school site, and he ended up asking me a hard, but good questions about it. Here is the background…
Next year, my school site will be getting “help” from outsiders. There is displeasure [...]
