Monthly Archives: September 2010

Indoor Recess Solutions

Whenever the weather is bad, students are prevented from burning off excess energy outside during recess and are bound indoors for the dreaded “indoor recess”. While there will always be a handful of students who are fine with this and … Continue reading

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Do not Differentiate Your Instruction…or Should You?

After reading a post on the Pennington Publishing Blog, I started to thinking about learning styles. While I agree with much of what Mr. Pennington says, I wanted to take a moment to comment on each of his points about … Continue reading

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Focus on Remediation

Remediation seems to be the name of the game in public education these days. In one school, the second grade math lab is being discontinued so that the person who ran that can instead focus on remediation with older students … Continue reading

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Book Review: True Bucketfilling Stories

Bucketfilling might be familiar to some of you, but it was a concept I had not heard of until I read the book True Bucketfilling Stories: Legacies of Love by Stacey Lundgren. Basically the idea is that each person has an … Continue reading

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