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I spent three days this week at the Multicultural Teaching Institute at Meadowbrook School courtesy of my Director of Diversity, who invited me to go when we had an unexpected opening to send a teacher to the conference. If you have a chance to go to this conference, I would strongly encourage you to do…
C is for Collaboration
I recently had an exchange with the parent of one of my advisees. He shared a paper his older daughter wrote in college with me. I don’t have permission to reprint any of it here, but she made some interesting comments about collaboration in schools. She made the comment that academics collaborate all the time…
Dana Huff: Agent Provocateur
Who knew, right? My argument against banning homework was, surprisingly, a lightning rod for controversy. However, it’s a useful and important conversation to have. You can read Alfie Kohn’s response to my argument. I really hope, in light of some allegations Kohn made, that some effort to include Robert Marzano in the conversation is made….
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Re-Examined
I went to see Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in the theater the summer before I started ninth grade. We had just moved to Maryland Heights, MO, and I would be attending school at Parkway North High School in Crève Coeur in a few weeks. I didn’t know anyone. I remember feeling scared and stressed. How…
Groundbreaking
My school will finally have a permanent residence that is, if Fulton County Schools don’t get their way. The Weber School has been housed in temporary buildings (modular units or trailers) next to Zaban Park (the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta). After spending years looking for the perfect site — “the geographic center of…
The Literary Canon
I recently read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own for the first time (I know, but I had been meaning to get to it). Woolf argues in this classic essay that the main reason women do not populate the canon of Western literature is simply that they haven’t had time and opportunity (never mind…
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