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In the midst of explaining my decision to Jim Bouchard, Senior Program Development Specialist & OLLI Coordinator at CSUDH, the creative light bulb went off in my head and electrified my brain with a solution. I pitched Jim on the idea of letting the Crenshaw High School Digital Media Team teach the class.

it's one-stop shopping, since social networking sites are really just aggregates of Web technologies we've all grown accustomed to using. You typically get started by creating a profile page where you can send and receive email and instant messages, post and view photos and videos, write blog entries, participate in forums or discussions, and share documents, thoughts, and ideas.

More education. Less schooliness. Open Invitation to Join the Conversation at Our AP Literature Ning without commentsPrint This Post Print This Post Last week, I mentioned reading Jeff Wasserman's post about how schools teach bad writing (the 5-Paragraph Essay and other abominations). I mentioned how it made me "want to make my AP Lit class Ning public. We're having forum discussions about Organic Form v. Mechanical." The more I thought about atomizing those Ning walls and welcoming the world of people who like to talk about reading, writing, and how schooliness creates lifelong non-readers and non-writers, the more attractive the idea became. So whoever you are, if conversations such as the one below entice you to share your thoughts with my students about literacy in schools versus the literacy so many of us adults managed to grow into despite them (okay, maybe you were lucky and had good teachers, which would be interesting to hear about), then come on in. My students gave me permission to invite you.

Classroom strategies backed by research and ongoing teacher development are helping to narrow the achievement gap at this Title I school. See the infographic below for more details.

Neurologist and teacher Judy Willis will be presenting a 4-part series on how young brains develop neurologically.

Edutopia releases rating function for website's top rated educational resources.

An effective classroom-based program of differentiated instruction, called Reteach and Enrich, kicked off eight straight years of success at Mesquite Elementary.