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Getting personalized right, the recent edition of Educational Leadership, has a number of interesting articles. I’ve been making my way through them and thought I would share short synopses that could use to decide on whether an article was worth exploring in more depth. Carol Ann Tomlinson, generally a good bet for an interesting essay,…
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Check out the Storify (click here) for the extensive learning that 120+ Atlanta-area World Language teachers engaged in this weekend at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta. This is the second unconference that Middle School Westminster World Language teachers organized. Kudos to the organizers and much appreciation to all those who came out on a Saturday…
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You know the expression, “time flies when you’re having fun!” The Greeks had two words to express time, Chronos and kairos. Chronos was the word used to refer to clock time, time that can be measured in days, hours, minutes and seconds. Think of chronos as quantitative time, and part of words like chronology, chronic,…
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Two articles are a must read for information and reflection. They both appeared in Sunday’s New York Times. The first was written by Michael Kimmelman, Mexico City, Parched and Sinking, Faces a Water Crisis. The lead quote from the article is: Climate change is threatening to push a crowded capital toward a breaking point. The…
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Reflecting on two recent stories about great or inspiring teachers, I can’t help but wonder why our society, maybe it’s just the news media, focuses on the great teacher being a “hero,” someone who comes to the rescue of students who are poorly served in school. The first story is about a teacher who builds…
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