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I don't mean to whine, but I'm feeling neglected. For all my questions about the eventual impact on education with TFA, I find myself a little pouty that they get all this professional development and I don't.

This year, my 8th graders all produced a multi-genre project during 4th Quarter that focused on possible careers of their choice. But I went a step further with my 8th grade Honors class. They not only had to research ...

I can't wait to show my 8th Grade Honors class this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq6b9bMBXpg. It's a great display of the act of spreading the arts publicly and on a huge scale.   My students have been working all year on their "Spontaneous Shakespeare" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CUE scored Marzano.   As he began his keynote presentation on Friday at the 2009 Computer Using Educators conference, Robert Marzano confessed that he had been slow on the tech bandwagon, only recently researching enough to see what all the fuss ...

Occasionally, I repost this article so that new readers can find it more easily.  Based on some very enthusiastic feedback, it has since morphed into a book proposal called The Top Secret New Teachers Handbook.  I'll share more as it ...

The Register reports that DARPA (Defense Advance Research Projects Agency) is currently researching how to create robots that are "like some self-aware computer systems capable of "meta-reasoning" and "introspection..."  Their goal is to "Provide machines with an ability to reason ...

So, CATE (the California Association of Teachers of English) just came to an end.  The hotel was lovely.  All ran smoothly.  We were greeted with smiles aplenty, and everything ran on time.  Sheridan Blau, Kelly Gallagher, Carol Booth Olson, Taylor ...