Over the past two months I have sat in meetings and in-services discussing testing and assessments. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for showing growth and documenting how students are learning within individual classes by making students and teachers accountable. I demand rigor of myself and my students. My concerns is the demand that
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2 Comments » The internet age of communicating has forever changed how we interact with family, friends, parents, administrators and students. I can remember the day when I didn’t have a phone in my room or a computer. The only real communication to the outside world was WALKING outside my classroom to the hall and talking to other
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The arts are being cut by those who never were part of them. They think that if we “explore” on an instrument, “play” with clay, or even “experiment” with acting, that we are doing the arts. The arts are about finishing, not starting. The arts demand hard work, they demand to push yourself to places
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