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Education Pays
A friend of mine shared this lesson idea with me, and I think it’s just fantastic, especially if you have students in your class who are inclined to doubt the value of a having a high school...
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Leaning In and Speaking Up
I came across this article today on The Learning Network blog on the New York Times website: “Why Aren’t There More Girls in Leadership Roles?” (By the way, if you’re a teacher and you haven’t checked...
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Favorite Teacher Fridays
This past week, the author Philip Roth wrote a eulogy for his favorite teacher, and part of it was published in the New York Times (“In Memory of a Friend, Teacher, and Mentor”). While this was a...
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Super Book Sundays
This week, Super Book Sundays is shining the spotlight on: Do I Really Have to Teach Reading? by Cris Tovani I first read this excellent book when I started grad school, and I come back to it regularly...
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1920s Exploration Day!
I just started a unit on The Great Gatsby with my 11th graders, and it’s so much fun so far! I couldn’t have picked a better time to teach this book, what with the movie coming out and everyone...
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Harper High School
If you regularly listen to This American Life, you’ve probably already listened to the recent two-part episode about Harper High School. If you haven’t already listened to it, you really need to....
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Every Kid Needs a Champion
Fellow teachers, I implore you to take a few minutes (7 minutes and 48 seconds, to be precise) to watch this TED Talk by Rita Pierson entitled “Every Kid Needs a Champion.” Even if you aren’t a...
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Teaching and Tweeting
I came across this interesting article in Forbes yesterday: For Public Schools, Twitter is No Longer Optional. The article calls Twitter “the most important social media channel when it comes to the...
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Memory Box Activity
As you know if you read this blog regularly, I’ve been teaching a unit on The Great Gatsby for the last few weeks, and the unit is just now wrapping up. I want to share with you an activity that I...
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Technology in the Classroom
I just read a very interesting article in the New York Times about a recent study that analyzed the value of technology in the classroom: Study Gauges Value of Technology in Schools You can find the...
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Please help me create a classroom library!
Dear friends and readers, I’ve just started a new job at a brand new public high school opening this fall in NYC, and I’m trying to gather books to create a comprehensive library in my classroom....
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Grading People in Power
This is such a great small article: Teacher-Lawmaker Schools Republicans Who Oppose Immigration Bill Mark Takano, a congressman from California who taught high school English for 23 years, decided to...
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