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  • Dreaming with an IPad

    February 29, 2012

    Shilo Shiv Suleman, Using Technology to Enable Dreaming, is a wonderful TED talk about how she uses an IPad to make dreams come true.  Watch her inspiring talk and demonstration. Ms. Shiv Suleman says: Technology should enable magic not kill it. As a book illustrator for many years, she creates an interactive IPad storytelling platform.  …

  • What schools can do to encourage innovation?

    February 26, 2012

    In a recent edition of Forbes, Holly Green wrote a piece, Anti-Innovation: 10 Proven Ways Not to Innovate.  I stumbled across the piece from a tweet by Guy Kawasaki at (click here).  Following his tweets leads me to a wealth of resources (@GuyKawasaki). I really liked what I read in her piece and it got…

  • Who was your best teacher and why?

    February 24, 2012

    What qualities do good teachers possess?  Can we settle on a set of qualities that all teachers should possess and can they be taught?  There are a plethora of articles, commentaries, and books written on what goes into making a good teacher.  I would advocate that contained in these pieces are the framework for what…

  • Helping Students Cope with Test Anxiety

    February 22, 2012

    Just read a wonderful article by Spencer Salend in Phi Delta Kappan, Teaching Students Not to Sweat the Test.  If you don’t have time to read his full article or have access to it, let me summarize his major points or topic areas.  Mr. Salend, Professor at State University of New York-New Paltz, has done…

  • Hechinger Report | Memphis’ new teacher evaluation system adopted from controversial D.C. program

    February 12, 2012

    In this article (see my highlights below), the author, Sarah Garland, writes about Memphis school district’s adoption of a teacher evaluation system similar to the one used in Washington, D.C. by Michelle Rhee when she was the superintendent.  Reading this piece and being somewhat informed about the Washington, D.C. experience, I continue to struggle why…

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