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Take that, Pat

Jan 23, 2010
This week in A.P. history has provided some of the best discussions we've had so far. Luckily we happened to start talking about Haiti right after we'd begun reading a great text, Robert Marks's The Origins of the Modern World, and talking about...

How NOT to teach about a tragedy

Jan 20, 2010
In AP history I've decided to take a little detour and focus on the history of Haiti for a couple of days. We started by watching the video of the Haitian ambassador confronting Pat Robertson's claim that during the Haitian Revolution the slaves made a...

Money, it's a gas

Jan 12, 2010
Happy New Year! It's been a stressful month in School of Blogland. After taking a 5% pay cut and a major change in my job description, (public information) our revised budget with the $60,000 in cuts was not accepted by the state. We were apparently...

How we gonna pay ....

Dec 2, 2009
Loooooong article in the StarTrib (via TWIE) on Minnesota charter schools and lease aid. The gist: A few hacks are profiting off of it. Our school would not be able to operate without lease aid given the type of lease we have and the current...

Where I'm From

Dec 2, 2009
An illustration of how an activity can bomb in one class and rock in another: My first year teaching I adapted a unit that my wonderful student teaching mentors developed: Using the poem "Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon as a mentor text, students...


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