Month: September 2008

Total 17 Posts

The Days You Wish You Had A Real Job

… a teacher’s true effectiveness should not be linked to a teacher’s right to renew his or her license.

โ€“the Washington Teachers’ Union, a letter to its members. [The Quick And The Ed]

I’m uninterested in resurrecting last month’s Million Comment March, or discussing She Who Must Not Be Named, or her policies, or their motivations, or their financiers (but if you absolutely must) I’m just curious what in the history of organized labor has led teachers’ unions to formally announce what amounts to a collective and colossal dereliction of duty.

Here Comes Everything

Among other guiding principles for this Internet timesuck I call dy/dan, this has been the enduring hope: that if I’m as transparent as possible, as honest as possible, and if I upload as many supplemental materials as possible, then you and I can turn losses into wins.

So yesterday I posted my entire Geometry curriculum online: geometry.mrmeyer.com.

The whole year. 1.94 gigabytes. Every lesson plan. Every handout. 2,144 slides โ€“ flavored in Keynote, PowerPoint, and PDF.

I hope you can use this or, at least, that you know someone who can use this, in which case, please pass it along.