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By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » Blogging So I Don’t Have To

dy/dan » Blog Archive » Blogging So I Don’t Have To — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:07:38 +0000

[…] Way back when, I called H. the best blogger who doesn’t blog, a great writer who wrote on an annual basis. She’s done with that pace now.Â She’s also a weird contradiction in terms, a smart blogger with a soft voice, the sort who’ll cop to a class management deficit and then turn around to teach at San Quentin for the summer. Her recent post, Circumventing the STAR regime – some useful tips, is just savagely funny stuff, worthy of national syndication. […]

By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » Design for Educators: Greg Farr’s Dashboards

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:19:53 +0000

[…] I wrote about Greg Farr’s dashboards awhile back, his weekly airing out of the campus’ dirty laundry: non-attendance, discipline, drop-outs. “There are no secrets at Shannon,” Greg says. If I were ever to step into administration, implementing that kind of accountability would head my list of Things To Do Before I Ever Sat Down. […]

By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » Administrators I’d Buy a Beer

dy/dan » Blog Archive » Administrators I’d Buy a Beer — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:24:16 +0000

[…] I’ve been meaning to make good on a commitment I made awhile back and Scott McLeod’s recent Great Commenter commencement ceremony reminded me to get out the lead. […]

By: ‘Star teachers’ mark less at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk

‘Star teachers’ mark less at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:56:54 +0000

[…] Welcome! If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email updates (look to your right) or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I’ll let you read the excellent post yourself, but I have to quote you this from Haberman: “Star teachers spend as little time as possible on tests and grading. Apart from particular school rules that must be followed, they are generally quite disinterested in the topic. Their evaluations are based primarily on students’ effort. … [T]hey have little faith in – and place little credence on – standardized tests of any kind.” There’s some other great quotes in there for the next time your Head of Department has a go at you for not slaving over marking books rather than actually teaching. (via dy/dan) Popularity: unranked [?]Bookmark:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]

By: Carolyn Foote

Carolyn Foote — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:36:34 +0000

Scott M,

I’m planning to mention LeaderTalk at a workshop I’m doing this summer for administrators in Texas. Doing my part ;)
to share a great administrative blog…

By: Scott Elias

Scott Elias — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:40:11 +0000

Dan –

You’re too kind. Next time your travels bring you skiing or hiking in the Rockies, I’ll buy YOU the beer.

You should know that when I read your blog, I wish I could turn back the clock and start teaching math all over again. The stuff you’re doing is just that good.

Have a great week!

Scott

By: dan

dan — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:29:03 +0000

Well … I guess I know of a door on my campus I should knock on, but, as for a larger outreach, a “viral” outreach if you’ll let me coin the term, well I know that sort of thing’s your specialty, Scott. Best of luck. You guys deserve it. Be sure to keep that Farr fella well-fed and writing for me.

By: Scott McLeod

Scott McLeod — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:10:05 +0000

Dan, glad you’re enjoying LeaderTalk so much! I am too!

Now, how do we get the word out to our administrators about what a great resource this is?!

By: dan

dan — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:07:51 +0000

Yeah, somedays feels like all I do is hit the star key in Google Reader and tell myself to read ’em later. It gets overwhelming — so much so that one Blogger-of-Note just dropped his feed count from 181 to 20 — but I’ll take this stress over the alternative of having nothing at all to read.

Which is how I try to see everything. My to-do list just laughs at me nowadays. I know I’ll never knock down all the qualifications of a great teacher I set up for myself awhile back. Jesus Christ is always around to tell me, by his example, that I can always stand to be a better person.

And yet for all those stressors I find myself oddly and consistently pumped. It’s on their account I’ll never be bored ever again.

By: mrc

mrc — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:19:29 +0000

Wow, you are reading a lot! I’ve been falling behind, with people’s RSS feeds backing up and spilling everywhere…