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Category Archives: Mentoring
WASHINGTONIOUSLY Awesome: NBCTs fill the classrooms!
How to Take Down a State Education System in 3 Easy Steps
When taking down an education system, it is important to know which areas are crucial and will cause the most future distress. Once you have targeted that, you will be able to take down an education system in a few easy steps.
adminiSTRAYtion
Disclaimer to all administrators past, present, and future: I am sure you are all wonderful people. Work hard, care about students. Just wonderful. Smiley folks. Perhaps even a bit jollier than the average person. Smarter, too, I reckon. However, a colleague of mine just started his administration program and I have to admit, I felt a bit of sadness.
Intro to Humor 101
by CSTP blogger KIM:
Everything I needed to know about teaching, I learned as a parent. 
Okay, not really. It was a reciprocal deal. Being a parent helped me become a good teacher, but being a good teacher helped me become a better parent. Mine was a mid-life career change (“early” mid-life, hopefully). My first year of teaching (9th-grade English) was the year my daughter was a 9th grader. I remember the first time I told a student, “That might work with your other teachers, but it won’t work with me. I’ve got one of you at home, and I know that trick!” She and the rest of the class laughed with me.