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Two Sides to Testing
Actual Graph from the WA State Report Card It’s testing time. That one time each year that should not be a big deal. I mean, really, it’s just a test. Well, that’s the way it should be. It should just...
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My Own Children
I blog and share posts about my dislike of standardized tests. I especially hate when these tests are made high stakes to determine what kids know and how well teachers are teaching. And yet both my...
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iPad and Tech Resources for Science
Check out a blog I wrote sharing iPad apps and other assorted tech resources I use with students in my Science classes on Digitizd (@digitizd): A Science Teacher Shares Tech Resources For Teachers,...
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The Homework Dilemma
Homework is a tough one. We all have our opinions about it. Reading Alfie Kohn’s work on the subject reveals that the research can’t really agree on whether homework is valuable or not for young kids....
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How Valuable is My Time?
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License Last week we had our parent/teacher/student conferences in an “arena style” format. What that means is that all the middle...
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HW and Trust
Flickr Photo (cc) Thinking about homework again I’ve heard some of the reasons for giving homework and it boils down to trust. It seems, by the way some teachers talk, that they don’t trust that...
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Gamification Alternative to Grading?
One thing that’s really cool about Twitter is that you’re allowed to be nosey. People know that anyone who follows them can read what they’re tweeting. Now that may be obvious to everyone but I tend to...
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Pendulum Swing or The Answer?
[This is part of a series of posts I'm writing as I reflect on another online course I'm taking this summer, Stanford University's EDUC115N How to Learn Math. Sure, I'm a Science teacher but I have...
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[This is part of a series of posts I'm writing as I reflect on another online course I'm taking this summer, Stanford University's EDUC115N How to Learn Math. Sure, I'm a Science teacher but I have...
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Common Focus
Focus by Michael Dales, on Flickr In 2001 I worked on a proposal that got us a grant from the Gates Foundation for what they called back then Model Schools. Unfortunately, they found the Model Schools...
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Success Secrets
If you subscribe to Dan Pink’s email updates, his From the Desk on Daniel Pink, then you came across this Jeff Bezos memo that Dan shared on May 15. (Jeff Bezos is the founder, chairman, and CEO of...
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