In one characteristically gruesome Greek myth, the enchantress Medea tricks King Pelias’ daughters into killing, dismembering, and boiling him, on a promise that she will add a spell to the stew that will return the aged ruler to his youth. Unfortunately, their actions lead to nothing
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Carry Your Part or Get Out of the Way!
There is a crisis brewing in Arizona. And budgets are being cut to drastic levels. I have been teaching in Arizona for ten years. I haven’t seen a budget increase in 7 years. For seven years budgets have already been
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Individualized Learning Doesn’t Have to Be Lonely
In Learning Should NEVER Be Lonely his recent Tempered Radical post, Bill Ferriter says he cannot come to grips with “personalized learning.” He admits that he maybe paranoid but is literally frightened. (He created the image above which is used with his permission.) He
Read MoreWhere Are the Teacher Voices?
Last week, a group of connected educators met with the U.S. Department of Education in Washington D.C. I looked at the picture of the people standing around the table and noticed that there was not a single public school K-12
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College Is for Everyone
Eleven years ago, when my colleagues and I co-founded a small charter high school, we had a number of non-negotiables that we knew we would integrate into the school’s culture and curriculum: we would be kind to each other. students would
Read MoreAre We Telling the Smaller Stories?
Yesterday, I went to Facebook and noticed a trend. Many of my teacher friends were vocal in their criticisms of their child’s teachers. I saw posts like, “Can you believe the ridiculous homework packet he gets?” and “My son said
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