I missed February, and some months last summer. I’ll try to do better. If anyone wants to nominate a T of M just write me an email. It’s a feature of our blog community that I should not let go just because of all the intense activity we are all involved in right now. By […]

What is the result of being able to share things like what Nathaniel wrote below about his week? Greater mental health for all of us: Yesterday I was called to the principal’s office because of a false accusation by a student. It was a surprise. I do not think the principal believed alleged event happened.

I would like to know why people feel that they can judge others so much. It happens more in schools, it seems. I mean, how many doctors and lawyers and others in just about any other profession get taken to task in the way teachers are? In the comment-turned-article to be published after this one,

This circling thread is presented as a review for experienced people and to help instruct some of the newer people in our group about this fundamentally important CI skill. In this article, Daniel Noll, who is relatively new, talks about and shares with us what the back of his classroom looks like, with a photograph.

Cherie Thomas sent this with a vPQA slide presentation that just makes me want to be in a classroom again: Ben, I read the Jim Tripp script yesterday when I got to school and decided to scrap what I was going to do and use this. My kids have their writing SOL’s this week in

Angie is brainstorming ideas for doing PQA with “inside/outside” and is seeking ideas for that. Any help from anyone?

Jim Tripp not only writes very streamlined and crisp story scripts that really work, he also has shared with us a nice little reading and drawing. One comment on the drawing – I always forget to do those. The six panel drawings that we ask kids to do as a follow up activity to a

“Last night I had a dream that you were no longer our teacher. And the new teacher was trying to teach us grammar and it was horrible. And we asked for you back, but we couldn’t get you.” An 8th grade girl came into my class today and this was the first thing she said

There is a Spanish position open for a CI teacher at East High School in Denver. When I was there four years ago the ratio of CI teachers to traditional teachers was 2:8 in a ten member department. Now it is 9:1. So I don’t think they are too interested in hiring a non-CI teacher.

From Jim Tripp: has on (is wearing) can’t see is only looking at pinches Shirin has on a green sweater. Elliot can’t see the green, because he is only looking at Shirin’s feet. So Elliot pinches her. Larry has on green sunglasses. Monica can’t see the green, because she is only looking at his chest. So

Q. How does one react to a colleague ….when you both are responsible for students who are grouped together in the same year?

Let’s not mince words. Kids of today have few reasons to believe in themselves. The scene in most schools is still all about competition and testing and dominating and winning and excluding others. But if we learn to teach using comprehensible input we can change that culture of competition into one of cooperation and mutual