I recently heard that the Teaching Ambassador Fellowship Application is now open and accepting submissions until March 2, 2010! If you are eligible, you can apply for the Washington Fellowship or the Classroom Fellowship. This was one of the best professional development and learning opportunities that I’ve ever been a part of, so please consider [...]
So what’s another way you might describe those beaches in this sentence, the teacher amiably inquired of her elementary school students in the room. Projected on the overhead was the beginning of a modeled sentence: The awesome beaches in the D.R. are … An excited voice of one student in response, his answer inflected with [...]
Great moment between a teacher and student today. The teacher making steady moves to get this particular elementary school class focused and moving along. Using encouragement, patient re-direction and otherwise heroically urging the students along in their work. A few moments into a smooth transition to the rug for a shared reading. Some sudden squirmishness [...]
Levine and BSO perform Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Wow… what a performance! I especially love watching Levine conduct with his feet all emotional and swaying in his conducting chair. Brilliant stuff. Have to catch a Boston Symphony Orchestra performance one of these days…