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Teacher Satisfaction Up? What Drugs Does Mr. Kress Take?
Job Satisfaction Among Teachers Said To Have Peaked In 2008. In an opinion piece for the Dallas Morning News (4/17), Sandy Kress, an attorney and former senior … more →
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Standard PRocedure: SM ≠ Youth
wrote 1 month ago: Social media seems to be the buzz term of PR students everywhere. Advantageously adding the words … more →
Article on technology in the classroom
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wrote 3 months ago: I was browsing the internet and came across the article titled “Literacy Technology in the Elementar … more →
A Word from the Wise...Gloria Hurtado
wrote 4 months ago: Are you really proficient? We’ve all done it. Put something on our resume that perhaps we thought we … more →
Good News? Anyone?
wrote 8 months ago: Even though i’ve been gone for sooooooooo…… Long, i’m really happy that all … more →
CELEBRATE... THE SEA BREEZE, THE 840
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wrote 8 months ago: It is Day 3 of the 2009 California Standards Test and it is quiet across the campus. Still. Ghost- … more →
Teacher Satisfaction Up? What Drugs Does Mr. Kress Take?
wrote 8 months ago: Job Satisfaction Among Teachers Said To Have Peaked In 2008. … more →
Color Coded Rubrics For Formative Assessment
wrote 9 months ago: If your rubric has a limited number of concepts, you might consider using color coding. As you asse … more →
Teacher Portfolios- Real Student Success or Faked Success?
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wrote 9 months ago: Individually, I talked to two teachers who had to present teacher portfolios and had received back … more →
High Expectations For Our Students: Our Responsibility
wrote 10 months ago: Robyn Jackson in Never Worker Harder than Your Students differentiates between standards and expecta … more →
Baby's Learning and Our Students' Learning
wrote 10 months ago: My wife and I have taken care of our ten month old grandson for two days. He now puts Cheerios in … more →
Differentiation sounds good, but I’m not seeing it in the classroom
wrote 1 year ago: Thoughts on differentiation in lieu of Burke’s chapter, “Teaching Reading in High School”. Note: Reg … more →
Exemplar Collecting and Using For High Quality Learning
wrote 1 year ago: At one of the colleges I teach at, I had to submit material for a course review. I was pleased to re … more →
How Many Academic Firsts Do You Celebrate?
wrote 1 year ago: My wife and I went to see our son, daughter-in-law and our grandson. These parents proudly talked ab … more →
Non Graded Formative Assessment Rubric for Writing
wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been using a non-graded formative assessment rubric in my college English classes for num … more →
Time for Formative Assessment?
wrote 1 year ago: I have been trying to apply a formative assessment approach in my writing class. Based on the learni … more →
