In Practice

Cross-posted at Reflections on Teaching…
Classroom 2.0 Live in Sacramento!
More useful and educational than Oprah’s recent tour of our tent city! Sorry, local joke. We’ll be having a live in-person meeting of Classroom 2.0 at Sacramento City College, our local community college just 2 miles from where I work! I will be there, and Larry Ferlazzo [...]

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This is the first post in a two-part summary of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s 2009 annual conference. My personal reflections on learning will come in part two. I also have a few interviews and session summaries (for those presentations I didn’t live-blog) that I’ll be incorporating into blog content later on. [...]

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This session (the last I’ll mention here before posting a conference summary) was presented by Quinn Stanley from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, and was based on his unpublished dissertation. Although I teach in a regular ed setting, at least half of my students in any given year are suffering from diagnosed [...]

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This is where I conclude my series on poverty and education. In the first installment, I discussed overall theory about poverty, and how education fits in to these (not well as a cure). I then discussed the particular actions that a school could take to improve relations with parents that have issues with schools that [...]

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I promised a third installment in the series on poverty that started with Why not “cure” poverty instead? and last had Choice is nice, but…
I would like to incorporate some work I’m doing with Sixth Graders, so I’ll be holding back my final post until Monday.

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