You know the saying from your kid-exploring-the-outdoors days? The one that wisely observes that a day coming home with grass stains on your knees is the mark of a good one? Well, here goes the adult version of that same sentiment: coming home from a short weekend away with all your clothes smelling of sweet, [...]
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Here goes a recent advertisement that I saw for Amazon on the website dealsea.com. Um… do the kids come with accessories too or are those separate?
The Full Yield is a great, free program that was offered to Boston teachers and other city employees near the end of the last academic year. It focuses on helping individuals eat healthier through periodic phone calls, access to a food tracking website, biometric measurements and plenty of email suggestions for healthy recipes. The program [...]
It’s that time of year again… the beginning of a new school year! Here’s a blog article that talks about establishing a good classroom culture and the structures for effective classroom management. I was glad to read the final paragraphs as well that mention the most important ingredient for establishing good management in the classroom–an [...]
Really glad to see more and more press about teacher and teacher-leader run schools. Knowing one of the teacher-leaders who runs the Boston Teachers Union School, I can say that there’s a lot of excellent promise there. Here’s a recent article about them from the New York Times. September 6, 2010 In a New Role, [...]
So it wasn’t exactly well-planned on our part. Want reservations for a campsite on one of the busiest late summer weekends of the year? Get those well in advance or get ready to make a lot of hopeful calls to the state parks for last minute openings. We did the latter. Coastal state parks with [...]
Pretty amazing how many resources there are on the web to help you to do those simple home projects. One that’s been on the to-do list? Stretching a canvas of a Thailand street scene that I bought last summer. Less than one hour to watch this helpful video, get the stretcher bars lined up and [...]
Man. Hurricane (or what’s left of it) brushing up along the New England coast late this evening. Happily holed up at home. Raincoat wearing weather reporters doing sappy reports on coastlines. Plenty of bad movies on tv to watch. All’s right with the world.
Nominate A Teacher for the NEA Commission on Effective Teachers and Teaching
Recently heard about the opportunity to nominate a teacher (or self nominate) to be part of the NEA Commission on Effective Teachers and Teaching. Download the application, due Tuesday October 5th here [Nomination Form for NEA Commission on Effective Teaching] or submit the form here. A bit of an edweek blog entry about the commission: [...]