U.S. History Student #1, in a loud voice: “Mr., can we go over the Do Now?!?!”
Student #2: “HEY! Don’t yell at Mr, Dykhouse!”I always love it when students show the love like that, even when they are yelling at a friend. What makes this even more…
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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I follow Diane Ravitch’s blog here on WordPress and I have a deep respect for her passion for public education and defense of the education rights of the disenfranchised. She is very quick to point out education reform fads that are broken. However, while…
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*OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS: I will review my reasons for supporting Obama this election in three key areas: tax reform, immigration, and foreign policy.
Today, the British news magazine The Economist released its endorsement of President Obama for the…
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In the upcoming school year, I was very pleased to find out I will be teaching with the Social Studies Department. Because of my background, this is really the perfect fit! Specifically, I will be teaching Global History 1 & 2 and U.S. History as a…
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I recently participated in a webinar regarding the Common Core standards for education. At the beginning of the webinar, the stated purpose of the Common Core standards is to make students “college and career ready.” This got me thinking: what is the real…
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Now that my field experience and summer training is over, I thought it the perfect opportunity to do a Letterman style Top 5 of what I learned this summer! Especially because I finally have time…
10. I Must Take Time for Myself! : Giving myself to these…
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10 months ago
So, today is my first full day of teaching. Suffice it to say, I barely slept last night. I am teaching a lesson on citing evidence when reading informational text, as well as giving a short history lesson on Frederick Douglass. It should be a fun lesson!
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Summer Teaching: First Week of Teaching
It was my first week of teaching this past week! Let’s recap what happened:
Had no idea who my…
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"Until yesterday, I thought of Mitt Romney as a spineless, disingenuous, and supercilious but more or less decently intentioned person who at least wasn’t the race-mongering pyromaniac that some other Republican candidates of my lifetime have been. Then he gave his speech to the NAACP, and now I think of him as a spineless, disingenuous, supercilious, race-mongering pyromaniac who is very poorly intentioned indeed, and woe to us if this man sets foot in the White House as anything but a tourist."
- Michael Tomasky, arguing that Romney planned on being booed by the NAACP as a way to establish his anti-black bona fides for the GOP base. (via quickhits)
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