Showing posts with label Teachers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teachers. Show all posts
Thursday, May 9, 2013

It's College Tour Season Part 2

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So, our second college tour happened to be the Historically Black College, Bowie State. Before we toured their campus, we went to the Nation...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Happy Teachers' Appreciation Day!

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Happy Teachers' Appreciation Day! Here are some goodies for you if you haven't heard.... Okay, so maybe I was a lit...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

School Closings a Civil Rights Issue

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I'm glad somebody said it.... It's Not Always the Right Choice to Close a Failing School
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...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Land of the Free?

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Student Punished for not Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in Maryland

We Need to Talk About Injustice

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Economic status determines a lot for our children especially with the public school to prison pipeline being a very prevalent problem her...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Are Our Students Allowed to Flex Their Decision Making Muscles?

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"Simply put, we have fallen in love with the illusory certainty of making a choice, and abandoned any shared commitment to investing in...
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...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Kill Em' Kindness: How Teaching Empathy Curves the Bullying Epidemic

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I've been watching quite a few videos on empathy. America seems to be dealing with a huge bullying problem. From our classrooms all the ...
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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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

The Battle at Kruger: Community Comes to the Rescue

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While reading, the founder of the Children's Defense Fund Marian Wright Edelman's,   The Sea is So Wide and My Boat is So Small ,...
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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Friday, March 22, 2013

Sir Ken Robinson: Changing the Education Paradigms

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In English In Spanish
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Teaching Makes Me Smile

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This is for anyone out there who is fed up. Maybe an observation didn't go so well, or maybe your planning was taken up today with an...
Monday, March 18, 2013

What Does School Really Teach Children?

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What can we do to change this senario? At home, at school and in the community? What is your role in educating the children in your comm...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Maker's Educators' Award

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Maker's is offering $10,000 to one trailblazing teacher. Entries must be in by 8:00pm EST March 22nd. Click to link to enter/nominat...