Cooked On Education

When I tell people that I teach in a juvenile correctional facility, I get some interesting responses. It usually starts with something like “wow…that’s really great,” or “good for you!” I wonder sometimes if what they are really thinking is “why would you do something crazy like that?” Sometimes I ask myself [...]

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Thanks to a link sent by Vicki Davis via Twitter , I came across this great post from Jenny Luca in Melbourne, Australia. In it she talks about why she is blogging and some of the potential classroom applications. Here is part of what she says:
I started to toy with the idea that [...]

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Yesterday, I opened my Google Reader and started looking through the new stuff. One of the blogs that I read is Learning in Maine which is written by Jim Burke and others. There was one new item. When I clicked, to my surprise I read this headline:
MVYDC Laptop Lunch Group
Jim had posted [...]

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I am on school vacation this week, but I am also working. Because of the nature of my facility (juvenile corrections), the students don’t get to go home, even though the teachers are on vacation . So it works out that I am able to come in and work to build up some [...]

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On his blog, Jim Moulton recently had a three-part posting about emotional engagement in education.
Here is what he says in part three:
“A young person who contributes to his or her community is less likely to behave in a way that hurts that community.”
This was the comment that I left:
This really hit home with me when [...]

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Starting a blog is something that has been a personal goal of mine for some time. Will anyone read what I write? Will anyone care? Who knows- but for me I hope it will be the start of something good, a way to put down my thoughts (which tend to be varied and scattered) from [...]

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