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Diving into Differentiation

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:00:50 -0500

In a lounge chair by the pool the other day I was browsing Chip Wood’s Yardsticks, our school’s summer read for staff and parents. With more than three decades as an educator under his belt, this New...

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Manual Labor

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:39:14 -0500

One of the ways I’m filling up the gobs up unstructured time in my schedule right now (other than meetings) is by reading the manual. In past years, I admit, Faculty Handbooks have generally been...

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Today's Tom Sawyer

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:17:33 -0500

Waterproofing a deck is not sexy. No one oohs and ahs when you’re done. The only discernible difference is that when juice spills it puddles instead of absorbs. But it is necessary. The payoff is...

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Goodbye Hello

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:50:17 -0500

Sorry it’s been a while since I last wrote. Along with most of you at this time of year, I’ve been deep in the Stuff. Grading mountains of papers, saying good-byes, grading mountains of papers,...

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Leaving El Dorado

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:20:49 -0500

I’ve told my colleagues and my kids, and now I’m telling you. I’ve accepted a position for next year as Dean of Students and teaching 8th grade English at The Congressional Schools of Virginia, an...

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Memorable Day

Mon, 26 May 2008 09:43:08 -0500

This Memorial Day weekend, my family went to a Pow-wow hosted by the Upper Mattaponi tribe of King William, Virginia. There I gave away a boat and got a gift I will never forget. Readers of this...

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Rosenfeld's Monster

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:20:29 -0500

I predict there will be at least 38 comments on this post. My kids do their homework, that much I know. I’m not so sure they all freewrite right. I take some of the blame; I’m not sure I’ve peeled...

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Changing Positions

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:39:40 -0500

I just finished teaching freshman comp at the local community college. Getting back two nights a week is welcome, but I will miss the mix of adults that offered such a stark contrast to the...

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Deaf, Dumb and Good

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:58:42 -0500

I had a tough time keeping track of my students last Friday because some were silent and others were invisible. Both groups of kids were participants in activities I sponsor at TJ. The silent ones...

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Doldrums

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:14:50 -0500

Stealing a few strokes at the keyboard as students behind me murmur lines about schoolboys going to school with heavy looks while they comb Romeo and Juliet for motifs. Later in the period it’s a...

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Taxing

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:06:58 -0500

Let it not be said that the NBPTS gods don’t have a sense of humor, albeit twisted. Retakes are due on April 15. I just put the finishing touches on my Reflective Summary, the final part of my...

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Mr R Goes to Washington

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:41:06 -0500

I played hookey yesterday for 30 million dollars. (Technically, I was lobbying for federal funding for the National Writing Project on Capitol Hill.) The experience made me feel a lot closer to...

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Feeding the Baby

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:49:54 -0500

Turns out there’s a name for all that weird stuff I make my students do like creating games about the Odyssey or reviewing their writers’ notebooks to make observations about their own learning. It’s...

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The Death of Handwriting

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:16:09 -0500

You know that amazing feeling of sitting at a picnic table on a riverbank with a light spring breeze, a cup of coffee beside your open marble comp book, and letting it all flow out through your pen...

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