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03 April 13 09:27 AM
I take a perverse delight in my Luddite Lite view, but it's really as simple this. Anything that distances me from the natural world, from my connection to the stuff that comes in (and leaves) my body, from the delicious sensuous (even sensual) symphony Read More...
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What do you care to know about the world?


26 July 12 10:13 AM
Teaching matters. We owe it to our children to get it right. What do you care to know about the world? There's a place for what used to be called boredom, for empty spaces to slide into your mind. It's not particularly unpleasant, but it lacks the dopamine Read More...
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Transformations


28 February 12 08:47 PM
Yesterday we fooled a few bacteria into taking in some jellyfish DNA, and now they fluoresce green. Tomorrow I will take a few colonies of these and give them what we all need--food, shelter, and a little security, and I'll get a few million more by Thursday. Read More...
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Evidence-based hypocrisy


26 February 12 08:45 AM
This one meanders and is meant for heavy fire--I want to know why "evidenced-based research" is an oxymoron in education. I want to know why Gardner and Marzano are revered for their research. I want to understand why the cult of personality supersedes Read More...
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Teachers are not (yet) professionals, II


25 February 12 10:19 AM
Trust me, I get why we need unions. The NEA might want to remember that they need us even more than we need it. Here's the first one in this series . I have heard this refrain too many times in my second profession: "We're professionals, we deserve more Read More...
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Et tu, Zappa?


21 February 12 08:55 PM
There's seems to be some confusion about my role. I am, of course, an agent of the government, of the public, of my town. I am a science teacher, which should mean I teach science. Arne says it means I am the linchpin of our economy. Einstein said I have Read More...
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Teachers are not (yet) professionals


19 February 12 06:42 PM
A scorpion, being a very poor swimmer, asked a turtle to carry him on his back across a river. "Are you mad?" exclaimed the turtle. "You'll sting me while I'm swimming and I'll drown." "My dear turtle," laughed the scorpion, "if I were to sting you, you Read More...
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Life in a drop of water


01 November 11 10:38 AM
I wandered into school despite our Hallowe'en snow day, to prep for lab. I brought in some pond water I foolishly (and joyously) collected in the middle of the storm. I took a drop, put it on a slide. I never know what I expect to see, and I'm never disappointed. Read More...
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My first plug


08 October 11 08:34 AM
This is a preview of a review of a must-read book for any teacher who attempts to teach science in public schools. I got a copy back in August, and have been reading (and thinking and doing and arguing and questioning and playing) with it since. It's Read More...
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Pediatrics vs. teaching


08 September 11 07:21 PM
I used to be a doctor, the kind with a stethoscope, the kind licensed to hurt you for you own good. It puzzles children to learn that a physician would walk away from medicine in order to teach, and there are days I am baffled myself. I liked medicine. Read More...
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Put the shoe on the other foot


05 September 11 07:28 PM
I haven't worn shoes since the graduation on June 21st, which means I've gotten through the summer without a wake or a wedding. My feet share the story of summer--they're currently encrusted with the oozy remains of an ill-advised tromp through poison Read More...
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No Khan Do


22 August 11 09:24 PM
Salman Khan makes educational videos, lots of educational videos, using a simple technique--he draws out his thoughts on a "blackboard," while he thinks aloud. Much like someone unwrapping a problem on a napkin or on an old slate blackboard. Bill Gates Read More...
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Natural world


10 August 11 09:52 AM
If you know a bit About the universe It's because you've taken it in Like that, Looked as hard As you look into yourself, Into the rat hole, Through the vetch and dock That mantled it. Because you've laid your cheek Against the rush clump And known soft Read More...
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Redemtion song


01 August 11 06:32 PM
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Bob Marley We're at that point now. We were at it once before in my lifetime. I know what fresh bread baked from wheat ground by my hands tastes like. I know what blueberries Read More...
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Why I'm marching next week. Hope you join us!


22 July 11 01:13 PM
If you want to see, you need to sit still. Still enough, for long enough, to be part of what is. Be still and know. You will know what it means when you get there--but first you have to sit. Still. This is my Auntie Beth's pond, not mine. *** I've gotten Read More...
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