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I have written before in the past on various blog sites and networks about the vital equation that must exist in order for a student not to fail in our schools: Family + Student + School + Policymakers/Voters = Student Achievement Each ...

Thank you as well to those of you (wow!  there were a lot of you!) who attended my "Internet Literacy: The Genre" session at CUE. As promised, here is the keynote itself to peruse at your leisure. As with everything on ...

Thank you to everyone who attended my session today at CUE on "Podcasting with 70 Middle Schoolers." As promised, here is the keynote itself to peruse at your leisure. As with everything on my site, this work is ...

OK, don't tell my husband, but I have a fictional crush.  That is, I have a crush based on a fictitious character.  I think I've always had one, but the object of my literary love has always changed with my ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OK, guys.  So I got it from the horse's mouth at CUE.  According to the ISTE Director of Governmental Affairs, No Child Left Behind is not going away.   In the weeks leading up to the election, the Obama administration talked ...

I believe a classroom library is the heartbeat of a teacher's environment.  It is the window into their own personality, and it reflects the importance of literacy in the classroom.  I believe every teacher, no matter the subject taught, should ...