March 29, 2008 in Personal Reflection
Tags: aren't, bad, checklist, coaches, creativity, evil, frustrating, gulag, help, history, impose, lucky, oligarchy, standards, stars, state, stifle, stop, student, student teacher, teachers
Hang out in the staff lounge in some California school. Eventually, you’ll hear something like this:
Standards stifle teacher creativity. Standards are unachievable. Standards impose an oligarch’s curriculum on all of us. Standards must be stopped.
I used to accept that out of hand. Who was I to argue? I had never planned a lesson or directed [...]
March 29, 2008 in Reading Response
Tags: blog, hemingway, intelligent, jacobs, kate, literate, mighty, off-topic, poetry, rodger, shotgun
If you’d ever be interested in the content of this post, the title probably caught your attention.
See, Hemingway’s Shotgun is this new poetry blog hosted by the one and only Rodger Jacobs. I don’t know who this Rodger Jacobs is exactly, but if he is the assistant prosthetics makeup artist I suspect he might be, he has the distinction of being mighty literate and intelligent [...]
