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Jaime Escalante: My Hero
He was my hero. He was my Michael Jordan, my Mother Teresa, my Abraham Lincoln. If you’re not a high school math teacher, and even if you are, you might not have heard of Jaime Escalante until today. An immigrant from Bolivia who had to study English at night to earn his California teaching license, [...]
Read More10,000 Hours to Greatness: Unique Boarding School Programs Teach Every Student Skills for the Future
It has been argued that in order to excel at something or become an expert in a particular discipline, it takes 10,000 hours of work and practice. That is no doubt a great deal of time, which at 2 hours per day would take 13 years to reach. But for high school students at many [...]
Read MoreStudent Produced Video Introduces The Hun School
Thanks to The Hun School for sharing this video of their October 2009 open house. This quick student produced capsule of an admission open house provides families who couldn’t attend with an intro to Hun- from academics, faculty and family connections, and great Hun opportunities. I love that Hun allowed one of its students to [...]
Read MoreSteven Strogratz: “what math is all about and why it’s so enthralling to those who get it.”
Share this with math teachers. “English In Real Life” was a fixture of my classroom. It wasn’t a set lesson. It was a few minutes at the opening of the period where students could share and show that they’d connected something that we’d covered in class to the larger world. Their connections ranged from reading/finding [...]
Read MoreAn Educational Consultant Visits Berkshire School
A picture perfect day in the Berkshires. What else could you want? Absolutely beautiful setting, Berkshire School‘s facilities are outstanding. Students look great in dress code; everyone’s happy. The campus is busy; you could hear the purposeful din in every classroom, common room, dining hall, playing field, and hockey rink (beautiful and newly built). Every [...]
Read MoreFour and Out: Sarah Fine Sheds Light on the Grinding Nature of Teaching- the work and and social baggage
Continuing catching up on posts and comments jotted down during a busy August- two trips and school starting. Oxford Mississippi kids returned to school- full time, on August 6th. Sarah Fine’s, “Schools Need Teachers Like Me. I just Can’t Stay” gives a heartfelt accounting of why, after four years of teaching in “Room 108 of [...]
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