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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Disney on Ice
How good to periodically look over to your right as you sit in your front row box seats in the Philadelphia Wachovia Center, and to see the play of lights on the faces of the niece and nephew in rapt attention to the show on the ice.
Disney princesses? Check. Snacks packed by their [...]
The Mirror SNL skit
Too funny… watch out for those sleepless nights, no?
A Holiday Season
Down in Pennsylvania for the holidays–driving in with S. and first getting dropped off at my sister’s place mid-evening. The explosion of niece and nephew into your arms when you first get through the door? Nothing more warming that that– love it. Sister and brother-in-law cooking up the full breakfast the [...]
What of Hope and Joy in the Language of School?
A good meeting this afternoon for the state Knowledge and Skills of Professional Teaching project that I’m a part of. And in our discussion about the components and categories of professional culture, one of our subcommittee members commented.
Something along the lines of this:
Our language and commentary about school are often so grim and hard-edged, [...]
Waking up in Winter
Now that’s what I’m talking about…
Waiting for Snow
Waiting for the beginning of the season’s first big snowstorm– less than half an hour before midnight, with the fridge stocked with rich breakfast and lunch and dinner plans– has to be one of the best feelings out there.
Bring on the snow!
Systems Don’t Change Because You Charm Them..
… so says Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, in this Washington Post interview on the leadership efforts required to reform a large school district (his being the largest, I believe). I like the general tact he takes about taking on large systems–absolutely, boldness and applying the gas in a [...]
Schools Where Teacher Evaluation Works
There’s plenty of literature out there that describes the woeful situations where teacher evaluation isn’t done well–whether in the recent New Yorker article that describes New York City’s rubber room for teachers in limbo or the article on the widget effect that points out that fewer than one percent of the 40,000 teachers covered in [...]
Maricel Delgado– A Find
You never know what you’ll stumble across when you hit the ‘next blog’ button on Blogger (or other such sites), and that’s exactly the appeal. The birth of a new tag / category for my running commentary, friends. And for a first share? A reference to this site came up, an artist with a photographic [...]
End of 2009…