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POPSNo, Mr. President! We want teachers to be more like you!
Please read this article. I can relate to the shock, hearing your president make statements like this: "'All we want to do is get our teachers to aspire to excellence..." Most teachers responses are similar to Francesca's: "Thank you Mr. President. I never thought of that before. I thought my goal was to struggle to achieve mediocrity." Jonathon Kozol's new book , "Letters to a Young Teacher" should be A WAKE-UP CALL to the general public...while they silently watch those who have used the NCLB (No Child Left Behind) law as a tool to destroy public schools. NCLB was always an unfunded mandate, anathema to all but the NeoCon Republicans. Not listening to teachers about the problems facing our schools is like letting a surgeon cut off the good leg and leave the crushed leg to rot. There are excellent schools out there. They are the ones that are responsive to the needs of children and parents and the vast reservoir of knowledge held by American teachers...BEFORE the federal govern
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POPSSeeing in the Dark Great show. A complete rebuttal to the book "The Cult of the Amateur". I believe that everyone begins as an amateur.
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POPSBlood from a Turnip The city of Milwaukee obviously needs money. If this foreclosure goes through, they can begin to foreclose on may other properties in the same situation. What a way to increase city revenues.
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POPSMuhammad Yunus on poverty I have mentioned the powerful economic work of Mr. Yunus, and how he over the years has continued to develop the concept of the micro-loan since the 1970's. The Grameen Bank exists because of the success of many poor people who have increased their economic value through the programs that go along with the micro-loan. Mr. Yunus developed a economic program for poor people that helps them with education that directly relates to their business...reading, accounting, communication, etc. Several books have been written about this process that Mr. Yunus has used effectively in his country of Bangladesh since 1976. I believe his work speaks to real economic development that encourages free enterprise. His latest book is called, "Banker to the Poor", and an interesting book about his process is called "A Billion Bootstraps : Microcredit, Barefoot Banking, and The Business Solution for Ending Poverty".
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POPSDonorsChoose and Your Blog - Blogger Buzz This sounded like it would be particularly helpful to people who want to find a good option for donating; you pick the school, so you could pick a New Orleans school, your local school, or a relative's school. I don't know what countries participate, you will have to check it out. Please excuse! I just wanted to clip this while I have a chance.
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POPSIntroduceTeaching Friends to the Clipmark World! This morning I reviewed Clipmarks on the Firefox add-on website after I loaded my latest Firefox update. I am also sharing this with my friends in other communities. Thanks for making my Clipmark experience valuable.
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POPSBlog Communities Publishing Magazines This seemed interesting to me. A colleague invited those in our network to participate, so I checked it out. Most are not educational, just groups of blog carnivals on a shared subject.
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POPSThe Snake's Tail VERY interesting, yet easily readable research abstract that explains the research behind determining what causes the development of various vetebrae across species
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POPSA Spoonful of Sugar Very interesting research that could affect children's and adult's eating habits if they knew about these data.
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POPSThe Quality School When I saw Bobby DelRay's clip of the The 7 Habits of Truly Miserable People, I had to clip another of Dr. Glasser's books. This is one of his books that teach practical, yet effective ways to treat yourself and others with respect. His ideas about education and schools have developed a group of schools that follow his philosophies. It's good for learning and for emotional health of children, students, and the entire education community.
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POPSBreathtaking View: Up Close and Personal On Tuesday, December 11, 2007, the three copies of the Magna Carta will be on display in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. If you live close or can travel this will be the trip of a lifetime. Most times, these documents cannot be seen by the public.
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POPSStorm Clouds Everyone has been sending some cool pictures. I wanted to share out. This pic isn't funny, but I think it is amazing. Wouldn't Ben Franklin love it?
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POPSThe Legacy When I moved to my own home, my grandmother and I dug up some bulbs of one of the most amazing plants I have ever seen, the Surprise Lily. I shared them with my sisters and planted them in my yard. I will be moving soon and so will they. Plants, recipes and other traditions can provide an enduring legacy to the giver upon all who were touched by their lives. My grandmother is no longer with us, but her legacy remains. Using Amplify for such a project to begin or end Grandparents' Day would be a great way to encourage students to share their histories and legacies.
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POPSWhen the Army Fought Against Veterans in Washington Hopefully, we can learn from our recent American History. As Americans we need veterans to be healthy and productive, and as veterans, they deserve whatever assistance we can give them. Yes, I am a Yankee Doodle Dandy! Thanks to my grandfather, WWI; uncle, died on USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor; two uncles in Korea; the rest of us were born in the few off times to be of assistance. So we are support troops.
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POPSFantastical, yet REAL Pictures of Earth A critical, yet tiny group helps the internet and all other electromagnetic dependent devices survive, but predicting, following and warning of Space Weather that might cause problems on Earth. Every year, NASA provides exceptionally fine materials to teachers or other interested members of the public who will give presentations on or around Sun-Earth Day. This next year it falls on March 20, 2008.
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POPSBYOD: Bring Your Own Data This free software can take your data sets and put them into various types of graphs. I don't know much about it, but a teaching friend recommended that I look it over.
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POPSBe a Book Wizard! Embed this widget in your website or blog and anyone can use it to find children's literature by author, keyword or title. Scholastic has used Google gadgets to create an excellent teacher resource, a children's literature search engine. You can find your favorite book or search for titles to help you develop an instructional unit. While most titles are published by Scholastic, they do include other book titles from other publishers. When readers at your blog, wiki, or website use the Teacher Book Wizard Widget, they will be taken away from your site to the Scholastic site. I would like to see this widget open in another tab or window. While this is an inconvenience, it is not a major hindrance.
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POPSShooting at a Moving Target A colleague was wondering if Maslow was right, so I found this in a search and thought it was interesting to take time to refresh and reflect on what prioriites(needs) really are.
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POPSWhite Sands Star Party VIII This is a very cool opportunity if you live in NM or surrounding states. If you don't you will have to be satisfied with the pictures. I wish I could go.
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POPSWidgets Work! I would really appreciate your input on widgets. I am evaluating various weather widgets, so I can recommend them for school. I know I can't find all the sites, so I would appreciate any clips on the topic of widgets, especially for websites and blogs. So far, I found Weather Pixies that seems to be a great widget for elementary level.
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POPSProject Astro NM Sunspot is a really cool place, in the mountains near Cloudcroft, NM. There is an excellent visitor center and tours. From Sunspot, you can see White Sands.
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