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Not that I am trying to deduct my TV bill on my taxes, but I had an educational epiphany while watching National Football League (NFL) playoff games this weekend.  In the NFL teams change end zones after each quarter of… Continue Reading →

Who am I you say?  Oh, well, I am the blog owner.  Although from the infrequency of my posts I can see why you might ask. I was weeding out my GoogleReader feed and was struck by the abandoned blogs… Continue Reading →

I could not care less what celebrities think about anything, call it a personal bias.  So the first time my Sirius radio station was talking about how Jon Bon Jovi blames Steve Jobs for killing the music industry I didn’t… Continue Reading →

But imagine a job where you were hired for your high degree of competency … and then a topic sneaks up on you in which you feel you are tremendously ill-prepared.
This is the type of educating that any person in the school can do to help prepare our decision makers for the tough choices in technology they will surely encounter.

Everyone needs to be intentional about what we tweet, decidedly neutral when we respond, and tweet with a benefit-of-the-doubt mentality whenever possible. We are each others best resource, we can’t be this tough on each other.

…erroneously assumes teachers that are good at making connections with students will have students in their class that always produce high test scores. If he is allowed to play out his litmus test of test scores evicting teachers he will most likely rid Illinois schools of the very teachers he praised at the onset of his article. Luckily there are unions, that slow such processes which might gut the school system if public opinion was able to be carried out without check.