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the solution for tagging


31 August 07 04:45 AM | jtspencer | 3 Comments   
I ride past a freshly plowed empty field and see a large corrugated fence that advertises the latest neophyte tagging crew in sloppy, choppy letters. I don’t know what is the worst of these aesthetic crimes – the graffiti on the walls or the fact that Read More...

Why I Won't Shut Up and Teach


19 July 07 04:12 PM | jtspencer | 5 Comments   
After reading a recent blog, suggesting that teachers should self-censor and stay politically inactive, I feel compelled to write this blog. Telling teachers to shut up and focus on their classrooms is like telling Martin Luther King Jr to shut up and Read More...

the wizard of odd - standardized testing week


14 April 07 05:21 AM | jtspencer | 1 Comments   
Students are swept up into the whirlwind of the AIMS test - a grueling twelve hour marathon where they will be transformed from students into data on pretty graphs in Excel sheets. We're not in Kansas in more. (Honestly, we never were. We live in Phoenix, Read More...

What American Idol Taught Me About Assessment


02 April 07 09:07 PM | jtspencer | 0 Comments   
It is a show which lives up to its name, embodying nearly every form of America's idolatry. Yet, we scoop it up by the handful - the thirst for fame, the worship of celebrity, the cult of stardom, the sex, the lights, the music, the commercialism and Read More...

catch-22 and a staff development meeting


29 March 07 02:55 PM | jtspencer | 2 Comments   
I first read Catch 22 as a cynical high school student. Something about the wry humor, the absurdity of the system and the feeling that I was surrounded by insanity resonated well with Mountain Ridge High. I enjoyed the lively characters, though I never Read More...

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