Almost Daily Quote: 05/04/15

Almost Daily Quote: 05/04/15: I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.- Lily Tomlin

The Ogre's Poetry Den: Late April Inservice

The Ogre's Poetry Den: Late April Inservice:

Wednesday, after school, an inservice class meets
in the library to talk about iPads.
Nervously, the anxious instructor smiles, greets
us, t...

©2015-Art Belliveau

The Ogre's Poetry Den: test week

The Ogre's Poetry Den: test week:

wasting my time
 spinning my wheels
 another week gone
 unnecessary stress
 test week 2015

 ©2015-Art Belliveau

The Ogre's Poetry Den: empty walls

The Ogre's Poetry Den: empty walls:

empty walls
 posters taken down
 so boring
 desolate
 testing takes priority
 over teaching kids



 ©2015-Art Belliveau

Read on NPR Ed

I was doing a little readig on the web and found a couple of really cool little articles on NPR Ed.

The first one, The Teenage Brain: Spock Vs. Captain Kirk, starts to explain why adolescents can so oftenm make such spectacularly bad choices. It also says it starts at around age 12, not 17.

The other one, 5 Lessons Education Research Taught Us In 2014, had more of snippets than real substance, but some of those snippets, like what affect alligning curriculum has on standardized test scores, were intriguing. 

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