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There's a really interesting discussion thread going on at the Interactive Whiteboard Revolution ning.  It all began with my post recapping Robert Marzano's position on the influence of IWB technology when he presented at the CUE conference this year.  You can ...

So I recited the book and showed the movie trailer to the students on my Interactive Whiteboard, just as I mused about in my last post.  From there, I read an old version of the "Three Little Pigs" and asked ...

Yes, it's true.  I'm reviewing a movie review.  But when you watch it, you'll understand why. Spike Jonze of "Being John Malkovich" fame (amongst other image-rich movies and videos) is directing a movie version of the Maurice Sendak classic, Where the ...

I was musing over a post at Bill Ferriter's blog, "The Tempered Radical," about "white space" teachers. These are the teachers who are doing great things quietly, unrecognized for their contributions to the overall success of a school. So I ...

Know a teacher who got a pink slip?  Maybe my newest post at Teacher Magazine can help.  Click here for the article. It's Step 1 of my Top Secret New Teacher Handbook.  Hope it creates some shortcuts, a machete even, through ...

So I'm sitting here pondering the titles of the two curriculum books I am currently writing on teaching Internet Literacy, and I can't help but wonder if reading on the Internet isn't its own genre all together.   I mean, I ...

I have an article in the new March/April issue of Imagine Magazine, put out by Johns Hopkins.  It's a beautiful magazine, whose audience is gifted middle schoolers.  It's always a pleasure to write for a middle school audience.  I can see ...

So by now I assume we've all heard of the sanctioned "cage fighting" in a Dallas, TX school.  As AP reports, school officials apparently condoned the use of a steel cage in which students could bare-knuckle fight their way ...

With budget cuts tightening everybody's belt, we can't forget that the voracious appetites of teen readers are also affected by this economic downturn. Parents can't go to bookstores.  Scholastic Book Fairs have become mythical mirages on the horizon that, when the ...

There's been so much talk lately of deep-needed reforms for education, but we neglect just how powerful a simple makeover can be.  I'm lucky to currently work at a school that has a patch of green, which fixes the broken ...