This report from James is from 2013 but bears repeating as we enter another year knowing that a key ingredient of our instruction this year will center around students jobs: When I first started around the PLC there was a lot of talk about student jobs and how great they were for student discipline. They […]
In the next few articles I feature a few of the most important of the fifty-two jobs listed at benslavic.com. The first is on the PQA Counters: PQA Structure Counters (3) – Kids love to count stuff. The three PQA counters (or however many targets you have that day, there may be less) tally repetitions
If you are in the NE Oklahoma and want to get a group going please contact: Melissa Sadler caesarrosa@att.net
Here is a repost from 2012. It applies again to how we can begin the 2014-2015 school year as well: It is the main purpose of this site to help teachers find ways to make comprehensible input work for us in our classrooms. Of course, what works for one doesn’t always work for another, and
Here is the beginning of a War Room group in Denver/Co. Springs: Matthew Webster mateomuchofeo@yahoo.com 970-903-0402 Ben Slavic benslavic@yahoo.com 303-995-0526 Sabrina Janczak 630 849-9423
Here is the beginning of a War Room group in San Francisco: John Piazza john.piazza@yahoo.com Don Read dread121@gmail.com Sara Delman sarahartneydelman@gmail.com
Here is the beginning of a War Room group in St. Louis: Melisa Alexander malexander@bethalto.org Derek O’Chui chiudy@gmail.com Heather Manibusan heather.manibusan@estl189.com Daniel Madrigal danmadrigal@gmail.com (plus one more from East Saint Louis High School) Heather Sandy hsandy@wacohi.net Polly Fuller pfuller@wacohi.net Bliss Muniz bmuniz@wacohi.net Troy Walcott twalcott@wacohi.net Nate Sidwell nsidwell@wacohi.net
I am thinking that the success of the War Rooms at the national conferences could lead to regional War Rooms. We could use the PLC to create a list of PLC members in each major metro area who would like to get some War Room training going on year round. Since many of us now
This comment-turned-article is why Robert Harrell was first published here last winter. It is worth a re-read, or a thousand of them throughout this coming year. It is so incredible – I would like to memorize those numbers below, especially the one about Mr. Rogers. If those numbers are right, then we all have a
Jobs must emerge organically. You can’t just assign a job. It has to be chosen by the kid. The better jobs have to be earned. The superstars who occupy the best jobs enjoy a kind of “second teacher” status in the classroom, which is huge for the teacher. Superstars are constantly pulled down by so
On Wednesday nite last week in the Chicago War Room session Jenny (China) suggested some sites that are similar to Educreations. These are sites that I thought that we might explore as a group to then share the results of our research with each other – how they stack up against Educreations – so we
