Another week's re-cap of ed-related content via Khephir:
• Schools cutting funding for science, but...] $60 Million High School Football Stadium - http://j.mp/gdVrmORead more... )

Another week's re-cap of ed-related content via Khephir:
• Radical Visions, Broken Bridges: A Re-Visioning of British Columbia’s High School Social Studies Curricula - http://bit.ly/epkD7eRead more... )

Another week's re-cap of ed-related content via Khephir:
• Gunman Paints 'V for Vendetta' Sign, Opens Fire at Fla. Board Meeting - http://j.mp/eyEKyrRead more... )

Another week's re-cap of ed-related content via Khephir:

This week I've added tweets from #loveHE too - i.e., Higher Education.
• Early Lessons in Tolerance Prompt Fights Over ‘Hidden Homosexual Agenda’ - http://j.mp/9Vv7NSRead more... )

I will be entering my seventh year of teaching in the fall. I teach high school social studies- a course that students must pass in order to graduate and must pass its state exam in order to receive credit for the course. It's a beast of a class. Period. For most of the time I have been teaching I have been using a total points system because I ( Read more... )

 So I was on the phone with my mom today and she told me about something going on in the teaching community right now in her area. (my mom is a sub for multiple areas) Apparently, a math teacher (one of the middle schools favorite teachers with a high success rate for his students) was caught having and extra marital affair with a fellow teacher.

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Here's the basic info: I am part of a program called the Administrator Aspirant Program in my region. The reason I am part of this is because I was nominated by my admin to go since they know I want to be an administrator. Yesterday was day 3 of our training (days 1 & 2 were in August, day 4 is in April) and I wrote it in the sub book one week in ( Read more... )

I teach 4th grade inclusion in upstate New York. Lastm week, I got a new student. He was in another 4th grade class, but was having severe discipline problems. The principal thought that his behavior was stemming from some of the other kids in the class, so his solution was to switch him into my room. Instead of the problems going away, they've ( Read more... )