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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 ...

Here's yet another reason why test scores can't be the only way to gage teaching quality. A colleague of mine, a fifth grade teacher, at the UCI Writing Project got a call last night from her automated phone tree saying ...

OK, so my first period's "Advanced" group went up 40% between their 1st district assessment and their 2nd. Another period went up 37%.  Even my Honors class went from 81% Advanced to 97% Advanced, with only 1 student found in ...

So I just got the January MindWare catalogue and I realize that here we have a toy catalogue that is solely for metacognitive purchases.  So this got me thinking: how can schools market metacognition?  I realized, of course, that until ...

I recently watched John Merrow's interview with Michelle Rhee on the NewsHour.  Michelle seems like a real mixed blessing for education. On one hand, she's willing to clean house, and education does seriously need it.  On the other hand, however, ...

So, please, somebody tell me how this scenario is best for the child: Recently, I received a student, a full quarter into the school year, from our ELD classes.  That's not the problem as much as the fact that she doesn't ...

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 ...

The Washington Post reported that the Washington Teachers' Union is "proposing a three year contract...that would eliminate seniority."  This would allow administrators to retain newer but more effective teachers while relocating more veteran teachers to positions seemingly more suitable for ...

  I wanted to share an activity I did the day before testing this year. I had the students do a Quickwrite into their Writer's Journals.  The sentence stem began as follows: "I am going to kick the CST's butt.  I am ...

 Well, CSTs are around the corner.  You can hear them coming from a mile away, huffing and puffing like an overweight uncle trying to keep up at a family picnic.  They burst onto the scene with great academic hysterics. We ...