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The Tenuous Tenure of Teacher Tenure | subsisting on peanut butter
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Subsisting on peanut butter. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 39 other followers. The Tenuous Tenure of Teacher Tenure. Finding this blog post by Nicholas Meier. About teacher tenure got me thinking, and got me Googling. What is it about teacher tenure that makes people spit nails? The more I read, the more it seems like most people don’t actually know what teacher tenure. During which they can be fired for any reason.
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On the Incredible Importance of Keeping a Notebook By the Bed | subsisting on peanut butter
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Subsisting on peanut butter. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 39 other followers. On the Incredible Importance of Keeping a Notebook By the Bed. Ok, I’ll admit that his night-time needs are a bit challenging, and I could use a bit more sleep (notice I’m using my diplomatic tone here, and not going into too much detail about the torture of sleep deprivation). Next morning it was gone. 8211; by the bed. October 25, 2014.
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Is It Just to Teach Social Justice? | subsisting on peanut butter
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Subsisting on peanut butter. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 39 other followers. Is It Just to Teach Social Justice? That women in my profession are still trailing men in terms of hiring, advancement, and compensation. Female (and male) faculty of color face a whole other set of obstacles (see, e.g., Ford, 2011). They sat there, quiet. Which argues that too many college professors are pushing their social agendas on...
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The Art of Class Discussion | subsisting on peanut butter
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Subsisting on peanut butter. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 39 other followers. The Art of Class Discussion. But this course, and to some extent all courses, not only thrives on but depends on as many perspectives as possible. I had to expand my repertoire as an “expert” facilitator, so I consulted the only place I could think of where lots of other experts congregate: Facebook! Forced choice. This is where eac...
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Transitions | subsisting on peanut butter
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Subsisting on peanut butter. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 39 other followers. Yes and no. The program is designed like this on purpose. I’ve made the switch from learning mode to production mode. Now it’s time to write. Alone. It’s a new way of being a doctoral student (I mean candidate! But I’m glad to find myself here. I’m ready to climb. January 25, 2014. Is It Just to Teach Social Justice? I am a grad student...
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It’s Not Academic Writing’s Fault | subsisting on peanut butter
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Subsisting on peanut butter. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 39 other followers. It’s Not Academic Writing’s Fault. Because I am conducting research on academic writing and how it is taught across disciplines, I read Nicholas Kristof’s recent column, “Professors, We Need You! And Joshua Rothman’s response “Why is Academic Writing So Academic? Where one can “learn history as it really happened.” The c...To categorica...
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GardenPoet: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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My goal as an artist is to compel people to see anew and to see beauty in the detail that most overlook. I am especially intrigued with the wabi-sabi aesthetic - a Japanese term for the beauty in the humble, the imperfect, and the transient - but also inspired by the mundane and driven to create unusual combinations. Tuesday, October 27, 2009. The first one is one I did specifically to donate to a fundraising auction for Charity Water. And it feels good every time. The nasturtiums is titled Call of The W...