I can’t tell you how much I’m enjoying Roger Shank’s recent book Teaching Minds. (Thanks to Sylvia Martinez for the rec.) I will go so far as to say that it should be required reading for every preservice teacher (TFA folks included) if for no other reason than to fundamentally challenge…
Along with a growing list of collaborators, we’re encouraging people of all ages to take to Twitter on June 7 to talk about #summerreading. Bring your classes!
Caroline, who is just about to finish sixth grade, looked through all the writing prompts and picked out her favorite fifteen. I was super impressed with the list and asked her permission to share it. So what follows are Caroline’s favorite fifteen prompts, in no particular order. Most of the…
Sasha Obama sneaking up on Obama behind a couch in the Oval Office
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. This stunning time-lapse video puts you in the passenger seat of one man’s almost year-long adventure across 17 countries. In it, you’ll see 6,237 pictures spliced together to create severa…
Many in the United States got the day off work Monday in celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights leader and minister credited with bringing equal rights to African Americans, and tangentially, many other minority groups. Even after his assassination in 1968, his …
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Sketch and Education Rethink by John T. Spencer.
Lone Cypress, Monterey
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