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Well, what began as mere musings, seems to have become a fully fleshed fantasy for what a teacher prep program of the future may look like. It all began in Part 1 of this series of posts. It ...

In yesterday's post, Part I of 3: The Future of Teacher Prep Programs, I fantasized about what a credential program might look like years down the line. Here is Part II of my post that will address the following ...

My credential program was more of a necessary hoop than a valuable preparation program. My Ed Psych professor read his screenplay to us all semester long. My Methods of Math professor hadn’t been in a classroom for 30 ...

I just took a look at the recently released Metlife Survey of the American Teacher, and its section on "Effective Teaching and Leadership."  This section of the survey reported much about the opinions of teachers and administrators, focusing much of ...

I’m at CATE this weekend (California Association of Teachers of English) as both presenter and attendee. I'm doing two sessions: one on Internet Literacy (based on my recent workbooks) and one in a panel of Writing Project teachers on a ...

As well intentioned as it is, the goal of equity in all branches of education is doing a disservice to the goal of, well, equity. I'm searching for a word here. Maybe I need to make one up. ...

"It's like trying to stop a flow of lava with a Scott's paper towel. It's been this way for years!" The lady who said this wasn't talking about education, but she could very well have been. The lady in ...

We live in a world of double-decaf-non-fat-lattes-with-room. We live in a world that is slowly beginning to customize everything from our coffee orders to our spa treatments. But it won't just stop with luxury items. Some teachers complain about ...

Ellen Berg, my colleague in The Teacher Leaders asked this very simple question the other day. I had so much fun in answering and I believe so deeply in the power of this simple question that I wanted to ...

So a colleague of mine commented yesterday on my article "Is TFA a Volunteerism Succubus?" David Cohen (fellow member of The Teacher Leaders Network and creator the ACT ning) said the following in response to my article: "...They won't invest ...