February 2012
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Guest Post: Letter to the Times
Everybody’s favorite guest poster, Mr. Mainhart, stops by to publish the text of a letter that he sent to the editor of the paper of record. We applaud him on both his sentiments and his choice of ancillary publishing venue:
Re: A Sound Deal on Teacher Evaluations (2/17)
When people fondly recall the golden era of American education, they’re thinking about the early 1960’s through the mid...
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What I have been doing for the last two weeks →
For the last two weeks, I have been involved in the roll-out of a new electronic Teacher Community for AP Biology. Somehow or other (really due to my inability to say no to anything related to my favorite course), I was asked to be the moderator of the space. Since launching last week, the Teacher Community has amassed ~1500 teachers and is putting on a few hundred more per day.
Previously, we...
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Code Monkeys Assemble
A few weeks ago I posted about the poster that I had created for the new computer programming club that I am running in my school. “Code Monkeys” is a way for me to get the most interested students some programming experience. We do not have a computer science course. We used to (I wrote it), but I wasn’t entirely psyched about the dynamic, it being populated with students...
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The Scale of All Things →
A link from a former student, accompanied by the following email:
So, I found this thing and it’s really cool and you should totes look at it. I think it’s super duper awesome, but you being the science teacher have probably seen cooler stuff….
have fun :D
While I haven’t seen this, I have seen similar things. This one does as good a job as the others, if not better. I...
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Adventures in Inquiry: Opening It Up All The Way
As you might have gathered, I’m a big believer in letting students develop their scientific skill set in my classroom. A big part of this involves working to provide my students with opportunities to try out that kooky, crazy, mixed-up endeavor of human experience that we call the “scientific method”. To that end, I’m always trying to find ways to have my students spend more time giving the...
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