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The Carnival of Education #180 is hosted this week by SteveSpangler.com.  Check out my entry if you haven't already, and enjoy the parade!

OK, normally, I would reflect on one of the presenters at the UCIWP with my own spin-off thoughts and musings. Not so today.  Here are some Golden Lines from today's presentation with Sheridan Blau, award-winning educator, past president of NCTE, ...

  Kelly Gallagher, educator and author of Teaching Adolescent Writers, came and spoke to the UCI Writing Project on Friday and his focus of the presentation was a Golden Line: The Goal in Education is "Everybody Improves."   Duh, you say, isn't ...

Is this happening in a school near you? He said, "Let's go see a movie." *** He went, "Let's go see a movie." *** He was all, "Let's go see a movie." *** He's like, "Let's go see a movie."    

The Carnival of Education has rolled on in and my article, "Collaboration...Blocked By A Firewall Near You" is an active participant this week.   Thank you to Schiess Weekly for the inclusion. Enjoy!

I commented on Joanne Jacobs article, "Stop Facilitating and Start Teaching," based on Fred Strine's article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  Strine indicates that more student-centered teaching is somehow less taught and, consequently, less learned.  Jacobs paraphrases that the "'sage on the ...

You know, sometimes I wonder if I'm not a huge pain in the ass to present for, especially if I love what's going on.  I'm one of those audience members who has to verbally digest and implement what I am ...

An (aspiring) Educator is hosting this week's Carnival of Education #178.  I've tweaked my How to Take Control of Your Teaching list and although it's still in an evolving state, you can read it here.  Enjoy the Carnival and the ...

I went into Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars with some trepidation.  I've never been one for the Alice in Wonderland universe.  I find playing cards quite personality-less and grinning cats are somewhat less than charming.  But it's more then ...