Heard Around the Building During Start of the School Year PD
EDIT: to fix and apologize for all the typos and tweak the title. This hosting thing is hard!
Last week’s edition can be found over at Education Wonk.
Next Weeks Edition will be hosted by 2 Pass the Torch who asks that you submit entries that highlight good news about young people.
We agreed to host the carnival but unbeknownst to us, the date of our edition would be the day after my co-author would be relocating. I hope that this issue makes her proud.
Without further ado, The Chancellor’s New Clothes presents the 182nd Edition of The Carnival of Education. Thank you to every one who submitted. There were so many and it was hard to choose. If your submission did not make it, please feel free to submit again for next week’s carnival.
Heard During New Teacher Week
- Michaele Sommerville offers some advice to the newbies in So You’re Going to Teach Kindergarten, pt. 1
- Kiri: I figure, What teachers spend on supplies is enough to buy me an XBox360 and a PlayStation 3. You should just give me the money and forget about them.
Summer Reflections Heard in the Elevator:
- Jose Vilson: Ojala Que Llueva Cafe En El Campo (Hope That It Rains Coffee In The Field) describes my trip to the DR and how I leaned that one can be the coffee that awakens the people in their neighborhoods and make a huge difference.
- Cossondra George: Being coercive is a good thing as evidenced in my journal of my life in Middle School, day by day from a teacher’s point of view so others can learn from me.
- Bogusia Gierus admits that Giving up on students does not make one feel good.
- Carol Richtsmeier: As much as I love summer, I found that even though they are filled with Haters, Biters [there are some good reasons to go ] Back to School
Heard During the Morning Department Meeting
- Jim Pudlewski: What is the Purpose of Pubic Education? Schools should take on more social responsibilities.
- DaveTeacher: No one agrees with what schools should do in Don’t Confuse Lack of Consensus with Failure in Education.
Heard in the Information Technology Workshop
- ChemJerk: Not online? Not important? The Internet may be doing us damage.
- Jennifer Ward: Am I Losing My Mind? Is Google making us stupid?
- Darren: What do you mean there’s a right and a wrong way to use Wikipedia.
Secretly Recorded By Union Activist During the AP Meeting
- Travis A. Wittwer: What is the lure of the adminiSTRAYtion and why teachers feel like they should “come to the dark side.” Maybe, just maybe, the answer is that teachers need to Clean Out Your Teaching! so that it is not too stressful.
- Q6: In a world of Centralization: Tradition & Identity vs. Resources & Continuity proves even assistant principals ponder the question of loyalty.
- Matt Johnston credits DC’s Rhee Setting the Bar For Innovation
Heard During the 5 Minute Lunch Break
- Edna Lee: More Teacher Gift Ideas because sometimes the gifts we receive are um, interesting.
Heard During Department Meetings
- Ed Darrell: Here’s the Real dope on human evolution because school doesn’t teach us everything.
- DB Williams: Music makes learning better! It is powerful. The Joy of Musical Performance is a perfect example of this.
- woodlassnyc: And yet the NYC DOE does not get it. When deception is gross, it’s time to call them on their crap: don’t claim to be concerned about music when your system proves different.
- Suzanne: Did you know that writing & gardening are very similar? They both require that you sometimes forget about the bad stuff to focus on the good. You know, like how you grade papers.
Business
- Mark Graybill: HTML/CSS as a Prelude to Programming is a great way to get instant gratification. We like to know that what they are doing has a purpose and a result.
- Kacper Wrzesniewski: There are 4 Levels of Competence when learning a new skill. I think our students are only on level 2.
- Tom Tessin: It’s a shame How Credit Card Companies Lure Students.
- Linda W: Developing Speed in Spanish Speaking like they do in a telenova isn’t difficult. And when you learn to do it you can get mad game.
- Larry Ferlazzo: The Best Sites To Introduce Environmental Issues Into The Classroom
- Alvaro Fernandez: These are the Top 10 Brain Training Future Trends because brain fitness is the new yoga and will be very marketable in the future.
Heard During the Union Meeting
- Mathew Needleman: Do you know How to Use a Teacher’s Assistant (But Not for Fun or Profit) to help further the achievement of students? I’m asking because in all of my classes the TA just make copies and decorate the boards.
- Nancy Flanagan: BRING ME A HIRE LOVE because the problem may be that we are hiring the wrong teachers.
- Paul: Why do I have to show proof? I Know What I Know and I should not have to show anyone how I have been assessing my students. Or my self, for that matter.
- Dave Johnston: Are California State Board of Education meetings really public? I’m asking because they won’t let me in.
- Norm Scott notes that Michael Fiorillo Challenges David Brooks saying, “Is closing the achievement gap all about creating a horde of educated cab drivers?”
- NYC Educator points out in The Kindness of Strangers that Michelle Rhee is listening a little too much to her alter ego- Bloomberg.
Heard During the Afternoon Faculty Meeting
- Pat: Highlighting Students’ Talents is a sign of successful teaching.
- Hugh O’Donnell: You gave a ZERO? But a Zero Is An Unlike Term? or (7x+4y)/11=??? and does not have a place in the assessment of a student’s work.
- Strausser: a new grading system – fair and accountable may be more effective than the old system that many use. now, that’s progress.
- The Science Goddess: We need to see your students’ grades. We need a visual representation, so can you focus on Advancing the Gradebook.
Heard on a Playback of the Hidden Microphone in the PTA Meeting and Played During a Hearing to Forbid Offender from Entering the School Building
- cate3 presents Teach your children to pass the marshmallow posted saying “Education is important to success in life. One of the most important lessons we should try to teach children is to pass the marshmallow test.
Heard On the Way Out
- Recorded Phone Call with an Overwhelmed Mom: Perfectionism in the Gifted is a real problem and often times children develop coping behaviors. Have you noticed my child doing any of these?
- Conversation with Teacher Jeff after a Conversation with a Parent: Summer Is No Vacation From Crazy Over-Involved Parents, just be grateful that Overwhelmed mom was not like those day camp parents.
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Excellent carnival, even without me! Well, maybe next week. Sigh.
Mamacitas last blog post..No Heart/No Fart: This Explains a Lot
I love to read about enthusiastic educators who try to make a difference! Thank you for putting this carnival together!
My submission wasn’t used this time, but there’s always next time!
Janes last blog post..Potatoes Fly at Science Teacher Training in Denver, Colorado
Moving is a bummer–don’t know how you did it, but it’s one fine-looking Carnival. Congratulations!
And thanks for posting my piece.
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Cool motif! Thanks for the inclusion. 
Hugh O’Donnells last blog post..What Do We Do When We Want It So Bad For Them?
Great job hosting! Thanks for including me.
Carol Richtsmeiers last blog post..182nd Carnival of Education
From the clever blog title to all contained within, a fine set up. I enjoyed the collection of postings and as this is my first carnival and it was so well developed and the collection so diverse, you have set the standard high for future carnivals. Way to go. Thanks for posting my posts.
Ps, your category titles made me laugh.
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Thank you for adding my blog to your edition of the carnival. As usual, I’m humbled.
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