As thousands march to Wall Street in solidarity with the 99%, we are joining them in a nationwide virtua

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However, differentiation that involves students requires more of us than offering a choice between teacher-designed pieces of work. Differentiation that involves students requires more of us than diagnosing a student’s weakness and prescribing the appropriate intervention. Differentiation that involves students requires students’ voices and efforts to make meaning of learning – it is not a process of finding the best way for a student to memorize or repeat what we adults consider to be important.

When we differentiate by what we think a kid can do – instead of through what a kid wants to do

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We cannot re-imagine or recapture schools without the stakeholders they serve

It’s about creating a new public education system that recognizes and values a broader definition of learning than that accounted for by tests

bartering produce from the farms and gardens of the area to gain admission to see a play.

I guess what really I’m asking is this: what if you gave an entire community a voucher for the cost of its school system? What could or would it do then to build the system it wants, and how would the process of deciding what it wants move that community and public education ahead?

Work off of that assessment for a while.

out writing; I wish we wrote more; I wish I could make it clearer to the kids I work with how much I value their voices in class, in writing, in programming, in drawing, in painting, in making, and in questioning and in their million other intensely-felt acts and utterances.

need to take with my students – to accomplish it. Writing is a s

me – and in its soothingness, writing is unique amongst my preoccupations.