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Just 3 days left for THE PUSH! I don’t know how many of these we’ll get, but today we focus on SECONDARY TEACHERS. Are there any excellent secondary teacher blogs where 7-12 educators are […]
Just 2 days left for THE PUSH! I had a moment of panic yesterday because the Moving Forward wiki disappeared completely from the Web. Fortunately Wikispaces resolved the problem quickly and […]
Here’s a great quote from Jim Collins’ new book, How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In: Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more […]
Today THE PUSH focuses on ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS. What are some excellent elementary classroom blogs that P-6 educators should be reading? We’re looking for excellent examples of blogs where elementary students share their work. […]
A reading teacher contacted me: As the school’s remedial reading teacher I was asked to research a reading program for an extraordinarily bright 5th grader. Do you have any suggestions? […]
dear parent teacher administrator board member don’t teach your kids to read for the Web to scan RSS aggregate synthesize don’t teach your kids to write online pen and paper […]
I took a couple of days off from THE PUSH – guess I was tired! We only identified 1 excellent P-12 athletics / extracurricular activities blog. As we head into the home stretch […]
The University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) has started a new podcast channel and will be interviewing top educational leadership scholars from around the world about school administrator research and/or […]
From the author of Socialnomics, here’s what is perhaps the latest modification of the Did You Know? video. FYI, Did You Know? Version 4 is on target for an October […]
Yesterday was a good day for THE PUSH. We now have a list of 13 excellent P-12 business / computer science education blogs! As we get closer to the end (only […]
This past Saturday was Dangerously Irrelevant’s third birthday. Wow. So much for an experiment that I thought I’d try for a few months! Today this blog tipped over the 6,000 […]
Yesterday was a better day for THE PUSH. We identified 8 excellent preschool / early childhood education blogs. We’re doing okay in most other areas but could use some help with these: […]
Here are two quotes from Education and Learning to Think, an interesting little research-based book published by the National Research Council way back in 1987! Higher order thinking is nonalgorithmic. […]
Yesterday was another great day for THE PUSH! We identified 11 excellent English as a second language (ESL) education blogs. We’re doing okay in most other areas but could use some help […]
Yesterday was a good day for THE PUSH! We identified 7 excellent gifted education blogs. We’re doing okay in most other areas but could use some help with these: agricultural education (only […]
Sometimes THE PUSH has a tough day. Yesterday we only identified 2 excellent school counseling / college and career counseling / school psychology education blogs. We’re doing okay in most other areas […]
THE PUSH is a hit: we’re getting closer and closer to 200 excellent subject-specific P-12 blogs! However, we’re in a really tough stretch right now. Yesterday we only identified 2 excellent […]
Here’s a quote I ran across today from Lawrence Lessig (whom I heard speak for a few minutes in July!): n n [W]hile the Internet has indeed produced something fantastic […]
Seth Godin is one of my favorite thinkers. I’ve learned a ton from him. Here are a couple of quotes from his post today on education. School was the big […]
THE PUSH is struggling a bit right now. The past few categories have been tough. Yesterday we only identified 3 excellent agricultural education blogs. We’re doing okay in most other areas […]
By all accounts THE PUSH has been a big success. However, some areas are more difficult than others. For example, yesterday we only identified 1 excellent drama / theater education blog. That’s […]
The personal computer has been around for about 30 years. For most of us, the Internet has been around for about 10 years. And yet we still have a sizable […]
Yesterday was a tough day for THE PUSH. We only came up with 2 excellent vocational / applied / industrial technology education blogs yesterday. If you know of any more, we […]
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Yesterday THE PUSH identified 20 excellent special education blogs. Nice work, everyone! Here’s how we’re doing in other areas: 2 vocational / applied / industrial technology education blogs (we need more of these!), 5 […]
As a blogger, it’s sometimes hard to anticipate how folks will react to your content. If you’re striving to reach and dialogue with others, hopefully your blogging is of value […]
THE PUSH has a big challenge today. Are we up to the task? Yesterday we identified 7 excellent music education blogs. Here’s how we’re doing in other areas: 13 art education […]
Here are my notes from Dr. Yong Zhao’s presentation, Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization, at the 2009 School Administrators of Iowa (SAI) conference… […]
Well, THE PUSH only came up with 4 excellent physical / health education blogs yesterday. If you know of any more, we could use them. Here’s how we’re doing in other areas: […]