Comments on: Career Crisis #2 (of 2)

By: Caring and teaching: only one is difficult | Autonoblogger

Caring and teaching: only one is difficult | Autonoblogger — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:38:48 +0000

[…] it before then, apart from it’s general unavailability in Japan, was Dan Meyer’s review of it, wow! 3 years ago. Thanks to Google Search, it took me less than a minute to find Dan’s review. After watching […]

By: Caring, or teaching? Which is your #1?

Caring, or teaching? Which is your #1? — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:42:59 +0000

[…] it before then, apart from it’s general unavailability in Japan, was Dan Meyer’s review of it, wow! 3 years ago. Thanks to Google Search, it took me less than a minute to find it. After watching the movie, I […]

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:20:52 +0000

I guess I don’t understand the cynicism. Erin Gruwell made kids’ lives better. Why not just leave it at that?

By: If There Were None | EricHoefler.com

If There Were None | EricHoefler.com — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:42:26 +0000

[…] questions more explicit, in part due to recent conversations I’ve been having with others (online and off), and in part because one of the most important things teachers can do in a public forum is […]

By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » Bring Me Down

dy/dan » Blog Archive » Bring Me Down — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:49:21 +0000

[…] friends who were getting just a little too used to my non-presence. Replying to Lori’s comment in cc#2 was the closest I came to anything […]

By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » Resolving Two Tensions, Pt. 2: Success/Failure

dy/dan » Blog Archive » Resolving Two Tensions, Pt. 2: Success/Failure — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:38:44 +0000

[…] to define my professional existence has created a vacuum? How, for a teacher who got into teaching more for the pragmatic challenge than the emotional calling, this has resulted in a kind of post-partum […]

By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » We Need Fewer Heroes

dy/dan » Blog Archive » We Need Fewer Heroes — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:52:12 +0000

[…] Classroom Distinctions, which takes Freedom Writers to task in several thousand fewer words than I did back when. […]

By: Eph Diaries: The Eph Teachers » EphBlog

Eph Diaries: The Eph Teachers » EphBlog — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:38:00 +0000

[…] You won’t find any grandiose, heart-wrenching, “I’m making a difference” type statements, or even the magical “transformation explanation” (in which indebted teacher elaborates on how students have opened her eyes, moved her heart, and changed her very being for their existence). While I have certainly learned (and even, dare I say, changed), to jump into this overly passionate, intangible drivel seems to devalue the concrete task that we are actually trying to accomplish. That is, how can we successfully teach children what they need to know. To quote a favorite blog, this is just a job. […]

By: The Real Problem with Passion | The Line

The Real Problem with Passion | The Line — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:08:32 +0000

[…] Dan has some knifing things to say about teacher portrayal in film along these lines: that the heart-attack-inducing martyrdom of the protagonists is merely a sob story excuse for the absence of what real teaching should be: intelligence, ruthless truth-telling, and rigor. […]

By: Notes from The Paperless Classroom

Notes from The Paperless Classroom — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:21:01 +0000

Hey Dan, spit out that thesaurus you swallowed.

I would have loved this post, if I didn’t have to interrupt my reading every other line to look up one of those 25-cent words you sprinkle on your prose, like a salt-lover overdoing it on popcorn.

“self-abnegation?” “hagiographic?”

Are you kidding?

It all makes you appear a bit erudite (how’ya like that one?).

I must admit, though, I do love “visa-a-vis.”