When Dr. Ted Sizer passed away this past October, I must admit I had never heard of him; however, for weeks following the sad news, Twitter was abuzz with educators extolling the virtues of Dr. Sizer’s contributions to education reform, specifically the books he authored known as the Horace trilogy:…
Category: Reflection
Doubt
I’ve had this nagging feeling again. Most educators get it every so often; at least, I imagine, the good ones do: Am I making a difference? Is there anything more I can be doing? When I left teaching to go into school psychology I (perhaps naively) thought that it would…
Exhaling at EduCon
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…
Blogging Too Close to Home
In Wes Fryer’s latest post, he debates what to do about his child’s teacher’s decision to show ten full-length feature films over the course of a semester. Wes raises questions of copyright and fair use, and I highly recommend you head over his way and leave your thoughts on the…
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…