They say it is hard to find a gift for me.  Not this year!  On March 5th, I want everyone to meet me in Nashville to attend the TEA Teacher Rally. Come out and help make this my biggest birthday EVER:

As a child, I was smart enough to reason that a squirrel hunt in the morning plus a gamey smelling pot of “chicken” and dumplins was quite unlikely to contain chicken.  Daddy always tried to convince me that squirrel was chicken, but I would peek in the pot, declare, “That’s squirrel,” and walk away.  Today, I watched as the Senate committee on Education tried to feed us squirrel...

Today, a group of seven influential civil rights groups released their findings on the current administration’s education agenda and their recommendations for improvement.  The concerns are the same concerns that teachers and teachers’ associations have been raising across the nation.  While teachers have stood up for sound educational practices, equitable funding, increased parental involvement, and...

Michael Zimmer’s isuu.com publication, Tools for the 21st Century: 21st Century Tools for Teachers is a compilation and explanation of tools teachers can “and should” be using to integrate technology into their classroom lessons. He devotes a full page to most sites and gives an overview of each with clear, yet concise, non-techie language that most readers will appreciate. In addition to those...

  Mr. Carpenter is a 4th grade teacher and Instructional Technology Coach for grades K-12.  His “Super Website Resources” is a quick look at some great classroom tech resources and is published via http://issuu.com. (It is also embedded below.)  His site,  mrcarpenterstech.com, covers some of these resources more fully and includes some tutorials on several topics, including Excel and Moodle. Another...