I'm about to begin my 29th or 30th year as a teacher (I've lost count), and I'm pleased to say that I'm raring to go. There are just so many exciting possibilities. Having said that, I also see many barriers that continue to muck things up. I decided to look back at...

- This post is actually a comment I left on the "Taking Note" blog. The author, John Merrow wrote about his support of the LA Times plan to publish student test scores as a way to "out" teachers: Face it. They did this story because it was mostly easy to do … the data...

Seeing that the Department of Education is hosting a cyber-bullying summit this week caused me to wonder aloud something that I and others have wondered before: How much of the cyber-bullying and other online safety issues would be helped if schools were encouraged,...

So the RttT 2nd round "winners" were announced today and what bothered me about it the most I think, is that it shows that a very narrow-minded policy is going forward and the negative side of me sees only bad things for education. Not only because I disagree so...

I have long questioned why a policy like Race To The Top that is supposed to be about promoting innovation in education, has had such a narrow focus on charter schools, relying on standardized test scores to evaluate teachers, as well as assuming that teachers are...

You'll have to pardon me here. I originally meant to embed this video in my last post, but at the time I was at the airport and couldn't make it work, so here is my TEDxDenver ED presentation embeded ... unless of course it doesn't work ... again. I would have just...

UPDATE 2 (7/15/2010)- OK, the video is back up sans my intro because my mic had an issue at first and the sound wasn’t great, so they edited that part out… not a big loss. I showed a slide of a classroom from 100 years ago and mentioned how Rttt (without naming...

As each presenter shared onstage Janine Underhill made a "Graphic Representation" of what they were saying, doing and showing on an ENO interactive whiteboard. I was jumping around pretty quickly so I am amazed by just how she kept up with me. Thanks Janine! Above is...

I've had numerous requests for links to the student work highlighted during my TEDx Denver ED talk tonight. Just about everything is linked to right here on this blog. Just look at the top of the right hand column under "Pages" and you will see "Links To My Students'...