Oct 23 2008
I hope you found your day at UNH valuable. I’m hoping we can discuss the field trip experience on the blog, since we’ll likely run out of time to fully hear from everyone during class. In particular, I’m hoping you’ll reflect on how well we are preparing our students to succeed in college. What insights did you get from having lunch with our alumni or watching the class and wondering about what students were asked to do?
I look forward to reading your responses…
Oct 21 2008
Hello teachers,
There is a wonderful blog on the nytimes.com web site that I thought you might be interested in. It is a collection of essays written by teachers from many areas of the country and from different educational settings. They talk about their work or a challenge they are facing and then people who read the essay comment on the post. It’s worth a visit.
Sometimes I feel like we’re secluded up here on the mountain top at Kennett looking out over the valley below, but missing the larger conversation in education all over the country. It is nice to hear from teachers in different settings, often facing the same challenges we wrestle with but with creative solutions I haven’t thought of. I’m also interested in how people outside of education comment on the issues raised. I recommend it.
Go to http://lessonplans.blogs.nytimes.com/ and take a look.
