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About a year ago, I pasted a quote into Evernote by Chris Lehmann (probably from Educon 2011): If we want our students to grow, we must do that ourselves. This weekend we believe differently. All of us have a stake in the game. Solutions must include us (and our students). We cannot solve problems by [...]
Letting Go
By scm | June 14, 2011
The phrase “letting go” bounces around in my head constantly and has for years. I first realized the importance of our ability to remain detached when I read William Glasser’s Choice Theory back in the late ‘90s. For so many reasons and in so many ways, letting go simplifies our lives. But as much as I [...]
Photo from the recent #purposedpsi CC BY-NC-SA ianguest Quotation taken from Damian Bariexca’s #500words post: http://purposed.org.uk/2011/02/500words-damian-bariexca
What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T.S. Elliot, Little Gidding As I sat in church Sunday, listening to the Homily on beginnings and endings and the coming of Advent, I thought, too, about teaching. Our [...]
Reading this article about Amir Abo-Shaeer, the recent MacArthur award winner, took me back a few years. Amir has established an experienced-based learning program for his students. Fast Company reports he runs the engineering Academy “like a business.” “Students help write grants; they do PR, and they develop our website.” He calls his approach project-based [...]
Recent online conversations about rules and pencils have me thinking about my own teaching career. My assigned summer reading before college was Ivan Illich’s book, Deschooling Society. That was 1970. Before I graduated, I had read John Holt, Jonathan Kozol, and Herbert Kohl. As I moved into the classroom, these people shaped me as a [...]
I once told Sheryl Nussbaum Beach I didn’t feel moved to change the world. We were chatting about all things education–and how some folks are comfortable presenting to large crowds (I’m not), and some feel compelled to change the world of schooling (I wasn’t). At the time, I felt that my personal line in the [...]
The Zotero group started by Wendy Drexler is often where I look for research regarding issues that interest me. Today, I had a focused discussion with a friend on whether teachers’ personalities made them embrace or more resistant to change, especially related to using technology to enhance student learning. (As an aside, I should say [...]