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After the Return: August 2014
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Analysis from the Heart in these Transitional Times. Wednesday, August 27, 2014. Portals to the Future / Portals to the Past - Site Specific Dance Project @ Bodine High School. This past spring, the 70 students in my drama classes at Bodine High School dove deep into ideas of labyrinths / portals / past-present-future in order to create totally original site-specific dance pieces in our school's amazing courtyard. Joining me in my classroom were the AMAZING dancers from Bare Teeth Performance Crew. This ...
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The “Me” in Mea Culpa | Learn/Teach
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Not on the outside looking in, not on the inside looking out – in the dead center, looking around. The “Me” in Mea Culpa. November 19, 2014. November 19, 2014. One of the most important and underrated area of teaching is modeling how to deal with mistakes. It’s neither on the fabled Danielson Framework for Effective Teaching. So I’m excited to announce that I made a mistake. And, just as I try to correct errors in my writing in front of the students, I’d like to make amends. No applications that came fro...
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After the Return: Is this The Hunger Games? – a response to Neoliberal Wind-Up-Toy Reform in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Analysis from the Heart in these Transitional Times. Sunday, August 10, 2014. Is this The Hunger Games? 8211; a response to Neoliberal Wind-Up-Toy Reform in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This month, the School District greeted us with its latest glossy initiative for school transformation – The School Redesign Initiative. You know, that Doomsday/Empty Shell. I haven’t read all of the very fine print, but I’ve understood enough to see this for what it is:. A distraction, at best. And you would know that in ...
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November | 2014 | Learn/Teach
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Not on the outside looking in, not on the inside looking out – in the dead center, looking around. Monthly Archives: November 2014. The “Me” in Mea Culpa. November 19, 2014. November 19, 2014. One of the most important and underrated area of teaching is modeling how to deal with mistakes. It’s neither on the fabled Danielson Framework for Effective Teaching. This past summer, the School District of Philadelphia announced there “S chool Redesign Initiative. No applications that came from teams outside the...