Note: The bulk of this was written at nearly 11:30pm on Saturday, 30 January 2010, upon arriving home from EduCon 2.2. I just wanted to get these thoughts down before I went to bed and lost the feeling I had at the time; “post-production” tweaking was done with the benefit…
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Why I Failed
Just after Thanksgiving, I announced my intentions to start the P90X workout program. From a behavior management/support standpoint, this was probably a good idea. So was starting my own microblog dedicated to tracking my feelings & progress on the program (see some of the links in that blog post for…
Blogging for Better Behavior
From the psychology 101/”self-help” files: Two years ago I blogged about my attempts to change an undesired behavior of mine using some pretty basic behavior management techniques. This evening, I’m going to come at this from another angle: increasing desired behavior through blogging. “Journaling”, or writing down reflections & analyses…
IEPs for Everyone?
Well, not quite, but the NJ Dept of Ed will be piloting what it calls Personalized Student Learning Plans in 16 schools (14 traditional middle & high – including a former employer of mine, Northern Burlington Regional High School – a charter school, and a vocational school) starting in the…
Does Gender Matter?
This post comes to you by way of a discussion my wife (a high school special education teacher) and I were having the other day about school administration and leadership styles. I am about to start the 10th year of my career in education (not counting long- & short-term subbing…