Showing posts with label Interest and Motivation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interest and Motivation. Show all posts
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Costa Rica Here We Come!

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Welp it's been quite a long time, but we're back and have much to tell you. For the last couple of months I've been trying to ra...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Haiku for the Blue Planet Student Mosaic Part 1

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So, in the previous blog post I shared a mosaic that my students put together for Earth 2010. This year, we were already working on haikus w...

Ode to Earth Student Mosaic Part 1

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Back in 2010, I had my students create a mosaic to honor Earth on Earth Day. Each picture has a poem, in the form of an ode, celebrating nat...
Monday, April 15, 2013

While School Doors Close, Prison Cells Open

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Four major cities are closing several schools next year: Philadelphia (23), New York City (23), The District of Columbia (15) and Chicago (5...
Friday, April 12, 2013

180 Days: American High School

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PBS follows one struggling District of Columbia school's journey to redemption. This is probably one of the more realistic depictions o...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Poor Students Go Unnoticed by Some Elite Universities

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As an AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) coordinator and teacher it is my job to prepare my students to be "college bou...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Facebook Profile Character Development Lesson

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Standard: CCSS RL 9-10.3 Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and...

Fates Shackled to a Scantron

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A hush comes over the entire building as the students sit in their janitorial rows. Harsh fluorescent lights cast an ominous glow of fear a...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Teach a (wo)man to fish...

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Oftentimes we assume that people without resources can't learn or have too many obstacles standing in their way to find success and happ...
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