February 2012
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Teacher Discounts →
missingstreet:
DID YOU ALL KNOW THAT TEACHER’S GET A DISCOUNT TO STARBUCKS!? Check out this list of teacher discounts :) Enjoy!!
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Lord of the Flies Illustrated Cover Competition. →
englishteacheronline:
Some great pieces of art, resources for illustrators and information about the book.
Now this sounds like a great idea. Will have to try out with my level 4 class possibly on our next selection.
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What's the homework policy like in your district?
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How to Remove Your Google Search History Before... →
gjmueller:
world-shaker:
On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google’s other products. This protection was especially important because...
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This is on my mind tonight:
ohmuffins:
I believe in education.
I believe in teachers.
I believe in teachers who are passionate and loving.
I believe in teachers who do their best every day.
I believe in a staff that supports their teachers.
I believe in a community that supports their teachers.
I believe in parents who support their children and teachers.
I do NOT believe in individuals who try and stand in the way...
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What's Up With "Lay" and "Lie"?
theyuniversity:
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Teacher suspended for discussing racial epithet in... →
askingtherightquestions:
I believe he was wrongfully suspended. He was taking the moment to educate his students about something meaningful. It was a teachable moment. Thoughts?
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'My Teacher Is a Lesbian': Coming Out at School →
lhuddles:
A month into my first year of teaching seventh graders in Oakland, Calif., we were in the school library, using the big tables there to spread out as we outlined Africa on poster paper and added geographical features. My students chatted as they worked.
“Are you married, Ms. Sokolower?” one of them asked me. My stomach instantly tied in a knot. I was a brand-new teacher in what...
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WatchWoot woot!!
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WatchRemember that snow I mentioned in my previous vlog? Yea. My daughter doesn’t have school tomorrow. No news yet on my district. Crossing my fingers though. Lol
WatchFirst video blog! I think I look pretty ridiculous right now without any make up but that’s all right. Just fooling around on my new toy that I won in a bet against my husband (but I’ll save that for another post!!) on this snowy Sunday.
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Getting your resume together... →
Great tips on rebuilding and keeping your resume up to date by my friend @KitJenkins.
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Tomorrow's an early dismissal day.
Teachers have an in-service at which I am talking to the faculty about how I use our course management system (Blackboard). It’s my job basically to talk about how I use the assignment links (what used to be Dropbox) and the grade center.
I only have 10 minutes so it’s got to be short and sweet and to the point. I was thinking of doing the following:
actually login to my course and...
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Just heard some sad news about a former student...
I don’t know how to react to the news.
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Protect the Profession of Teaching!!
Contact your Delegate and Senator now!!
The VEA (Virginia Education Association) has provided teachers the following form letter at the following link.
Governor McDonnell’s education agenda includes an effort to deprive future teachers who have completed their probationary service of a fair dismissal process. Should Delegate Richard Bell’s HB 576 and the Senate companion Bill, Senator...
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School teacher convicted of assault on a minor →
“Grabbed him by his shirt and held him because he was making a noise going into class before the class started.”
Now, I can definitely see assault if the teacher had grabbed the kid by the collar of his shirt and proceeded to throw/ slam him against the wall or the door frame or even the floor for that matter. If the teacher had merely grabbed the student by the shirt to stop him from...
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6.9-magnitude quake in Philippines kills 13 →
MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Rescuers dug with picks and shovels trying to reach dozens of people trapped under houses collapsed by a strong earthquake Monday that shook a central Philippine island and set off landslides.
Click on the link to read more.
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Watchparty-in-panem:
Uploaded it to tumblr, too!
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Shadrack McGill, Alabama State Senator, Says... →
Someone alert the unions: raising teacher pay will actually make for worse teachers—according to one GOP lawmaker.
Alabama state Sen. Shadrack McGill said that increasing teacher pay is against “a biblical principle” because it might attract people who otherwise wouldn’t do the job…
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January 2012
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Hopes and Sueños: Immersion Schools: →
hopesandsuenos:
I have recently been researching some career options for after I finish college and keep coming back to wanting to be a teacher in a Spanish immersion school. I’m getting my undergraduate degree in K-12 Spanish Education but from my research, I don’t believe that this degree would suffice for…
Anyone got any advice?
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Darn. I forgot #Blackboard was going to be down...
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Rick Santorum: Left uses college for... →
girlwithalessonplan:
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Wednesday that “the left” uses universities to indoctrinate young people for the purpose of “holding and maintaining power.”
After saying “we’ve lost, unfortunately, our entertainment industry,” Santorum told a Naples, Florida, audience that “we’ve lost our higher education, that was the first to go a...
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Opting out of Grading →
girlwithalessonplan:
iamlittlei:
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As an educator who abolished grading in 2004 and initiated a Grading Moratorium, I have an acute understanding for how grading sabotages learning. Because of this, I have drafted this letter for my daughter’s future teachers.
Dear teacher,
Kayley loves to learn and is very excited to start school this year.
Because the case against grades...
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A young woman from the UK has eaten nothing but... →
Imagine eating nothing but salt-filled McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets. For 15years. That’s exactly what Stacey Irvine, a 17-year-old factory worker from England did—and it just may kill her. But before you write this story off as just plain crazy, do you know how much salt you’re taking in? And what it’s doing to your health?
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Scheduling Courses and Athletics
In my school, teachers are assigned a homeroom group of students and we have the same group of students until their senior year of high school. Each year, we (the homeroom teachers) work with our students to select courses for the following year based on their course of studies, one that they selected in 8th grade, but are able to change throughout their high school career. Each year if need be.
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