Miss Adventure's Adventures

What’s driving teachers out of education field? : It is among the noblest of professions. Yet the ranks of the teaching profession are empty...

Having survived the end of the school year (barely!), and made it through the fall semester, I have a thought. Lots of the, really, but this...

In fact, HELL NO. People like Gavin McInnes are the real reason.

Governor Deal signed legislation making the "Opportunity School District" a reality. Quietly enough that I missed the media cover...

http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlg/vol302/365-378_Schiebinger.pdf

The Best Resources For Learning About The 10,000 Hour Rule & Deliberative Practice

Getting smarter with age.

Carol Ann Tomlinson wrote a piece called Notes from an Accidental Teacher  back in 2010 for Educational Leadership. In it, she recounts some...

Over the years, there have been several instances of being undermined by school administrators. Today, it happened twice, in less than an ho...

These thoughts have been bouncing around my head for a while, in between slaps from the Dragon Lady of Education. Jerry Maguire is playing o...

I flunked 'Standards-Based Classroom' because: I didn't put up a Word Wall. Oh, wait, it was right there if you turned your he...

This is out of control. The discussion always boils down to black and white, but ignores all the shades in between. My mother had to have ...

As I read about the Taliban attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan , resulting in the deaths of 145 people, mostly students,...

We are all familiar with the phrase- "drinking the koolaid". It's a reference to the followers of People's Temple founder ...

At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theory nut, I have come to the conclusion that there is a reason my school is being starved of res...

As new Common Core exams are rolled out across the country, more and more of this will happen. New York State already encountered similar p...

The issue of debate that Russ describes, whether one can think deeply without having acquired basic skills, seems, to me to serve mostly as ...

apparently no x-ray glasses were required. http://educationvotes.nea.org/2014/06/03/al-law-using-public-dollars-to-subsidize-tuition-at-pri...

From Pennsylvania:  new legislation targeting teachers. http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/06/pa-newest-state-to-assault-teaching.html?...

Campaign to get us thinking about what we say. http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/living/duke-you-dont-say-identity/index.html?c=us&page=0

And without due process protection, she could be fired fot telling the truth.. http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/...

And don't eat the sandwich:     http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/03/poop-sandwich.html?m=1    

I hate it when a supposedly secure and dependable website suddenly loses all my information. We have a state-run website for teacher job op...

Labcoat Life, at Nature http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/labcoat-life

Should be supporting each other, right? Maybe not, when corporate funding comes into play. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/publi...

Public Schools for Sale? | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com This might partially make up for some of the nonsense he's aired rece...

http://dianeravitch.net/2014/02/16/texas-parents-give-grades-to-legislators-its-ugly/

If we continue to perpetuate the myth that "everyone should go to college", then the counselors will keep meeting the kids (and pa...

so why do we keep chasing after the NEXT great thing? sometimes the one right in front of you is just dandy, thank you very much. Not that I...

I have all the 'data' that I need. It's in the understanding or confusion on the kids' faces when we teach. It's in the ...

On the subject of teaching science, if you want to prove old ideas wrong, you must first know what the heck they are: http://www.artofteach...

  At this rate, I'll be a bloody GENIUS by the end of the year. Changes are coming so fast I'm getting whiplash. Everything I w...

http://m.ajc.com/news/news/school-allegedly-tried-ban-students-speaking-spani/ncCKD/

      Apparently not. And neither do the administrators who've ceased to support our growth.

Or, more precisely, figuring out just what the hell is supposed to be on the damn form. It's a mashup of Learning-Focused Schools, Asses...

Jersey Jazzman: 'Twas the Night Before PISA Day! : 'Twas the night before PISA Day , when all through the foundations The wonks wer...

My evaluator is proof...    

We have two assistant principals at my school. Their personalities are very different. One has a sense of humor, and sees the humor and oppo...

a few are willing to speak the truth- Diane Ravitch, Valerie Strauss, Anthony Cody come to mind. and Jack Hassard:  And don’t be fooled int...