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Resource: TheMathFacts.com 19 Aug 2013 | 08:11 pm
If you teach elementary math and employ paper/pencil timed tests, you’ve got to check out www.themathfacts.com. TheMathFacts.com offers online timed tests that are automatically scored and differenti...
Resource: SmileMakers.com 17 Jul 2013 | 09:03 pm
With back-to-school season (and therefore “classroom decor improvement” season) just around the corner, here’s an excellent website designed to help us as teachers to prepare our classrooms, honor our...
Does Education Need Its Own Edward Snowden? 25 Jun 2013 | 08:29 am
In case you somehow missed it, Edward Snowden is the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who recently became a whistleblower. Mr. Snowden used his position to gain access to and then lea...
The Anti-Gifted Sentiment Behind “Closing the Gap” 23 Jun 2013 | 09:16 pm
The term “closing the gap” has been used in education a lot lately, as in, “We need to work to close the achievement gap between all students.” Everyone nods their heads and sets to work on figuring ...
Everything We Teach About Writing Is Wrong 13 Jun 2013 | 09:48 pm
My name is Mark, and I’m a spelling and grammar Nazi. If you write there when you mean they’re, let’s be honest: I’m judging you. On the other hand, if you use a semicolon correctly, I instantly figur...
Create Something! 12 Jun 2013 | 11:39 pm
“Even the stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act. And I’d still take the most inane collaborative website over someone watching yet another half hour of TV.” -Clay Shirky I have three...
Smarter Balanced Assessment: Practice Tests Released 31 May 2013 | 03:35 am
Amid all of the furor about Common Core lately (at least here in Michigan), the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium today publicly released their first practice tests designed to show the world wha...
Common Core’s PR Problem 29 May 2013 | 07:14 am
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS), as of late, have been suffering a bit of a public relations problem. The Republican National Committee is now opposed to the CCSS, saying that these standards a...
Resource: The Busy Educator Newsletter 25 May 2013 | 04:54 pm
As summer approaches, I always start thinking about what parts of my teaching practice I could improve for the coming school year. I ask my students to complete surveys giving me feedback as to how t...
Resource: FreeRice.com 24 May 2013 | 05:04 am
This winter, when my third-grade students needed some practice on their basic multiplication facts, I took them over to FreeRice.com. FreeRice.com is a basic quiz site with a twist: for each problem ...
