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Guess what's back?!   Yes, indeed, the NY Times is reporting that "The Electric Company", that hip how-to-read show set to a funky beat that became the background soundtrack to many a moment in my childhood, is back.

Hey, guys! Le Carnival has arrived.  It's in a forced choice, multiple-choice style format in homage to the testing season.  Enjoy this Carnival of Education hosted by My Bellringers, and see if you can't spot tweenteacher in the mix. Take care and happy testing! -TT

I am going to be presenting up in the Bay Area at the FETC/CUE conferencethis fall.  My seminar is called “Podcasting with 50 Middle Schoolers – Are You Crazy?!” Six years ago I went to CUE for the first time on the lower ...

  I wanted to share an activity I did the day before testing this year. I had the students do a Quickwrite into their Writer's Journals.  The sentence stem began as follows: "I am going to kick the CST's butt.  I am ...

Check out this article from yesterday's Scientific American, "Study Shows Brain Power Can Be Bolstered-Maybe" from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.  It's not that it wasn't a very interesting and hopeful study on methods designed to help improve the memories ...

Here's the new Carnival of Education hosted by The Science Goddess.  Great story, great articles.  I especially liked that contribution from that "Heather" gal.  Wink-wink. Enjoy.

I saw this article today, "Middle Class Teens and Leopold II," by Joanne Jacob.  I always like seeing my Google Reader go bold when she's got something new on the stove.   Anyway, it pretty much talks about (but with better eloquence) ...