While I am waiting for my family to awaken on this glorious, rainy, last day of 2005, I have reflected a little on ‘05 in anticipation of returning to school bright and early Monday morning for a 5 day week (I loathe a school year calendar that has a full week after a long break. [...]
Chapel Hill, Saturday, Jan. 7th, hundreds of folks from across the nation are planning to attend the second annual PodcasterCon. There will discussions of the role of podcasts in education, news media, entertainment, and more. Last year, I forgot about the conference until the morning it was scheduled to take place. So, [...]
Blogs: http://theedublog.blogspot.com/ — The site I post to the most often. This blog is devoted to articles that I find interesting for fellow science teachers. http://ccmug.blogspot.com/ – I try to keep my classroom Podcasts linked on this page. I think I am going to delete this and start using my .MAC account for [...]
Small Schools With a Big Vision
Urban is not alone in its commitment to what is termed performance assessment. It’s part of a coalition of 32 small public high schools that comprise the New York Performance Standards Consortium. Like Urban, these schools serve diverse students in diverse communities throughout the state. And they share a commitment [...]
