We wonder and we worry- the real Grand Challenges at the University of Minnesota
How much gas can I afford to put in my car today? Or do I have enough in the tank to get to work? Have I saved up enough sick leave to be able to start a family? Will I be able to pay for my groceries...
View ArticleTeachers' Lounge: Freshman Readings, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe,...
There are some books that most people my age and group (white, college-educated) have read or at least had read to them. These include such classics as Little Women and A Wrinkle in Time, The Hobbit...
View ArticleTeachers' Lounge: Boundaries and Mandatory Reporting
It is challenging to be an advisor. Academic advising is obviously the main purpose and topic of my one-on-one conversations with my students. We talk about their academic progress (in my class,...
View ArticleTeachers' Lounge: Already Falling Apart (me, my students). Is it really only...
Not classes — school seems to be going okay-ish. But as for me — the problem for me is with my body. I have been having problems with my back for the past several years, and in fact in the spring of...
View ArticleAn open letter from teacher to Betsy DeVos goes viral: You are 'the elephant...
Patrick Kearney is an educator in Iowa. His focus and his family’s focus for decades now is the cultivation of public education for children.Campaign ActionHe spent 25 years as a band director in...
View ArticleBest Practices
The Minnesota Department of Education has created a toolkit to support transgender and gender-nonconforming students.The School Safety Technical Assistance Council, the department's advisory council on...
View ArticleTeaching writing...and remembering how that's done
I recently attended a writing workshop. This is important and necessary because I am a teacher and I teach 4th graders to write. One of the strategies that we learned was to look around the room and...
View ArticleNot sure if we can continue putting the flag up at school...
When I moved to 8th Grade US History, I decided that it was time to buy a new US Flag for our school and make sure students were putting it up and taking it down. No one had really been in charge of...
View ArticleBillionaires get handouts. My students don’t even get toilet paper.
I have had the privilege of teaching in New York City public schools since 2005. Last year my class and I received the rare opportunity to attend the Lincoln Center ballet. I couldn’t wait to see the...
View ArticleI resigned from my career in education today. I just can't do it any longer.
My first year of teaching was in 1986. I had 35 students in my 5th grade classroom — 15 girls and 20 boys. I was hired the spring before when I finished my student teaching. The principal came into...
View ArticleThe Inoculation Project 3/11/2018: Fairy-Tale Engineering, and Science Ideas
This week, we're continuing a South Carolina project to get early-grades students engineering happier endings to fairy tales, and starting an Oklahoma project to bring fifth-graders a set of books that...
View ArticleExploration 17
This piece is from May of 2008, the last semester before I switched back to teaching mathematics. It may be the end of this particular series. Judgment I should be busting my ass grading the quality...
View ArticleReviving Higher Education: What I Learned by Building a University
There have been several excellent posts on the net recently about the problems facing higher education, and some of the reasons why things have deteriorated. Debra Leigh Scott’s excellent summary, “How...
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Exploration 17
This piece is from May of 2008, the last semester before I switched back to teaching mathematics. It may be the end of this particular series. JudgmentI should be busting my ass grading the quality...
View ArticleReviving Higher Education: What I Learned by Building a University
There have been several excellent posts on the net recently about the problems facing higher education, and some of the reasons why things have deteriorated. Debra Leigh Scott’s excellent summary, “How...
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Mister Green's Teaching Update - 20190303
👨🏻🎓👨🏻🎓👨🏻🎓O’Hai!I’m Mister Green and this is an update on my adventures in substitute teaching as well as my odyssey towards getting my Multiple-Subject Teaching Credential.👨🏻🎓👨🏻🎓👨🏻🎓…So I am...
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Mister Green Teaching Update
This diary is me updating those of youwho are interested in my teaching journey.This report is about my CSET Testingand some subbing stories.Last week I took the CSET tests which are required to get...
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Merlí - Netflix Series About Barcelona High School Philosophy Teacher Worth...
My wife and I finished season one of Merlí last week on Netflix. The last episode pulled together a number of loose ends in a satisfying way. Episode 1 (I just went back to remind myself) opens...
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Today is my Fifth Jovian Birthday
Today is my fifth Jovian birthday. In other words, today the Planet Jupiter has completed five full orbits around our Sun since the day I was born on Earth.When my students ask me how old I am, I often...
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Mister Green Lesson Suggestions Sought
Greetings Students, I’m Mister Green.Mister Green drawing when his foot was infected and bandaged. That’s what I say to my kiddos when I’m their substitute teacher.I am going to be going beyond being...
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