Moms are supposed to look out for their kids. However, that’s not the case for Livia Soprano, the manipulative, miserable matriarch fromThe Sopranos. The embodiment of pure spite, after her son Tony puts her in a retirement home, Livia nearly gets him killed (twice!) and even conspires ...
Following on from my last post, I wanted to share what I have been doing with Year 13 to help them with the knowledge recall for the A-Level. I currently teach the uber-popular AQA 1C Tudors unit and I’m attaching my revision quizzes at the end of this post, if you’d like to...
In the past,Teach Plus has insistedolder more experienced educators be fired while shielding “promising young teachers” from the brunt of these firings. There is a great deal of evidence that teacher effectiveness, on a wide range of indicators – not just test scores – increases as teachers...
The other his is single-minded drive for privatization of public schools, no matter what the social cost, no matter who gets hurt by his schemes that parade as education “reform” but are in fact simply a way of transferring public funds and public property to individual interests in the ...
Thus, under a mistaken impression, I blasted the Board for holding a party when they needed to get down to business. I was wrong about that and write this to correct my previous post. I’m not taking down the post because this is what it’s like trying to provide information and a ...
Clay rattles are a great introduction to clay and can explore so many forms. I’ve done pumpkins, birds, carved zentangles, and this batch has a fun spooky theme. They glaze beautifully or can be painted for a cold finish. This guided painting tutorial will show you how to paint a cute...
This is important because Success Academy is held up as a model network that gets so much media attention every time ‘100%’ of their seniors are accepted to college and every time state test score results come out. It is kind of like the Lance Armstrong of charter schools. And when...
On Friday’s there is always a lady in the bathroom speaking loud Spanish on the phone and I don’t understand why. Maybe she gets free long distance on that day or maybe she uses salty language on Fridays and wants to hide it. It was also the first day I started my lifting routine...
Media Teacher and Producer Post navigation ←Older posts Final Post….I Think Aug13 In January 2020, I suffered a stroke. In the few short minutes it took for that clot to kill a part of my brain, my plan to write more about Peter Bryce disappeared. More than three and a half years...
Participate: development of first motivation to engage; examples: a teacher gets interested through attending a science public engagement event; a scientist becomes aware of science communication opportunities in schools; a placement student considers a personal teaching career. Collaborate: individuals come...