Thank you SO much to Michelle Lundy at Making It As A Middle School Teacher for spotlighting Lessons From The Middle on her Share-A-Blog Sunday. It’s pretty cool, considering I’m still quite new to blogging! Michelle has wonderful resources and ideas for all you middle school teachers out there. What’s really great about her blog, is that [...]

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From Harvard EdCast‘s “The Celebrity Math Tutor” (transcript below) Buffy Cushman-Patz: What efforts do you take to ensure that your pedagogy is consistent with what education research shows about how people learn, especially how people learn math and science? Sal Khan: Um you know the reality is…when we’re going through the first pass of the ...

My first talk! Given at the STANYS 2011 Physics Breakfast on November 8th, 2011 in Rochester, New York Links to resources mentioned in the talk: Feynman’s blackboard at his death Hake’s “Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses“ Bowling Ball & ...

From Hacked Education: Khan Academy announced this morning that it has raised $5 million from the O’Sullivan Foundation (a foundation created by Irish engineer and investor Sean O’Sullivan). The money is earmarked for several initiatives: expanding the Khan Academy faculty, creating a content management system so that others can use the program’s ...

I was attempting to post a comment to a blog about teen sexuality in Young Adult novels, but the comment wouldn’t post. So I’m putting it here instead. The original post can be found here: http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2011/08/on-ya-and-teen-sexuality.html This is the third post I have seen in a week about Teen sexuality in YA so I ...

Welcome to the Literacy Beginnings book study blog party! Today I am covering the introduction “Living and Learning in the Pre-Kindergarten Classroom” as well as the first chapter, “Growing Up Literate: PreKindergarten for the Future Generation“. I hope you will join in the conversation by leaving a comment below or posting reflections on ...

I hope you will be joining us for the Literacy Beginnings book study blog party. Our party will kick-off here at Pre-K Pages on Monday, July 27th, there’s still time to get the book if you’re interested. So, you’re probably wondering why I’m talking about the party again if it hasn’t even started yet, right? Well hold on to your hats because ...

As I listened to my favorite radio station this morning, the hosts made reference to an article,  ”Will teachers be replaced by computers?”  The hosts made jokes, but I took this question seriously.  “As long as schools measure performance simply by rote memorization on multiple-choice tests, no teacher can compete with instant access to the ...

I’m so excited about the Literacy Beginnings book study blog party! We will kick off the party on Monday, June 27 with each chapter hosted by a different blogger. There’s still time to get the book if you want to join in the fun. I’m also planning for a fun contest to go along with the book study, stay tuned for more details! Here is a list ...