CPS AMPS: Mini Lessons that Can be Adapted for Literature Circle Centers

03/31/2011

Mini lesson samples:

CPS AMPS Conference

03/31/2011

Literature circles and dif instructbeta:

Powerful Interactive Whiteboard Strategies for Your Struggling Learners!

03/27/2011

If you are in Texas, Tennessee, or Illinois you might want to attend this seminar on Interactive Whiteboards...
read more

Opting Out of NCLB Testing

03/25/2011

I am grateful for this post by Timothy Slekar. As a mother of a son with special needs, I have been particularly haunted by the standardized testing. In Illinois, students are required to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test. For two weeks my son didn’t have homework, because of testing. The school schedule was modified, because of testing. As an educator, this troubles me. But my worries were greater as a mom...
read more

Why Inclusion in our Schools is So Important in Our Democratic Society: A Mom and Lifelong Educator’s Response

03/20/2011

On a spring day 5 years ago, my now third grade son, Colin, just finished his yearly checkup with his developmental pediatrician. Both the doctor and Colin returned to the waiting area and I observed that they were both a bit rumpled because, they were playing cars on the floor. As Colin announced that he was hungry, my husband volunteered to go to the cafeteria for some macaroni and cheese while I talked to the doctor.
read more

Is Reading Comprehension A Must-Teach For All Educators?

03/19/2011

When I entered teaching, my colleagues and I were concerned that many of our students were unable to read independently. My students struggled with reading assignments or just refused to complete them. That was over 20 years ago, time when there weren’t many reading tools designed to support adolescent students. The field of adolescent reading and content reading was undefined in the late 1980′s. Even when I was enrolled in my doctoral program in the 1990′s, the main focus was on early readers, not adolescent.
read more

We Must Change the Narrative About Public Education: Guest Blog by Diane Ravitch

03/06/2011

Diane Ravitch’s informed and fact filled commentary is an important voice to listen too during this “silly season” of teacher bashing and political agendas. Our educational reform dialogue must depart from the current punitive filled commentary to one that addresses the real issues in education: poverty and resources.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/diane-ravitch-reframing-narrative-public-schools

A New Generation of Teacher Bashing

03/04/2011

Since I have been an educator for over 20 years and the daughter of a public school teacher, I cannot be silent any longer about the deeply troubling trend of bashing teachers. Are there bad teachers, yes. Instead of trashing the profession, why not engage in dialogue about supporting and effectively evaluating teachers?

Jon Stewart has openly satirized the current media frenzy of teacher bashing and he deserves to be commended. As Stewart indicates in his recent satirical pieces on the matter, those who are most vocal are probably the most uninformed and ignorant of what schools and public school teachers are about.

April 2015 : 2 posts
March 2015 : 0 posts
February 2015 : 0 posts
January 2015 : 0 posts
December 2014 : 1 post
November 2014 : 4 posts
October 2014 : 5 posts
April 2015 : 2 posts
March 2015 : 0 posts
February 2015 : 0 posts
January 2015 : 0 posts
December 2014 : 1 post
November 2014 : 4 posts
April 2015 : 2 posts
March 2015 : 0 posts
February 2015 : 0 posts
January 2015 : 0 posts
December 2014 : 1 post
November 2014 : 4 posts
October 2014 : 5 posts
September 2014 : 7 posts
August 2014 : 3 posts
July 2014 : 0 posts
June 2014 : 2 posts
May 2014 : 0 posts
April 2014 : 1 post
March 2014 : 1 post
February 2014 : 0 posts
January 2014 : 2 posts
December 2013 : 0 posts
November 2013 : 6 posts
October 2013 : 0 posts
September 2013 : 1 post
August 2013 : 0 posts
July 2013 : 5 posts
June 2013 : 5 posts
May 2013 : 6 posts
April 2013 : 2 posts
March 2013 : 9 posts
February 2013 : 5 posts
January 2013 : 8 posts
December 2012 : 2 posts
November 2012 : 12 posts
October 2012 : 6 posts
September 2012 : 3 posts
August 2012 : 0 posts
July 2012 : 4 posts
June 2012 : 3 posts
May 2012 : 3 posts
April 2012 : 8 posts
March 2012 : 4 posts
February 2012 : 3 posts
January 2012 : 8 posts
December 2011 : 0 posts
November 2011 : 7 posts
October 2011 : 5 posts
September 2011 : 2 posts
August 2011 : 1 posts
July 2011 : 15 posts
June 2011 : 16 posts
May 2011 : 0 posts
April 2011 : 2 posts
March 2011 : 8 posts
February 2011 : 3 posts
January 2011 : 7 posts
December 2010 : 3 posts
November 2010 : 12 posts
October 2010 : 10 posts
September 2010 : 10 posts
August 2010 : 0 posts