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Breaking out of the classroom into the world....

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Shucking is a shellfish act

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Another old post from over 5 years ago--it's my party.... Oysters don't make a lot of decisions, but they do make some. While...
Monday, September 29, 2014

On mastering something new

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A former student dropped by today to tell me she just got her pilot's license.  She worked on it for over 4 years, and openly admits to...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

An abstract on abstraction

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The abstract world will not (because it cannot) forgive you. The natural world does with every breath you take. Our children are timid be...

Our class errorometer

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While sharing pints with a few teachers upstairs at McGinty's , Chris Harbeck took a sip of Guinness, then tossed out a few words that...
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Sunday, September 21, 2014

On teaching biology: sea urchins

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I stumbled upon a couple dozen of these guys this afternoon--I'd seen them before, a few years ago, and (mostly) forgot about them, b...

A grounded education

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We have a small pile of composting leaves and twigs sitting in a terrarium just below the windowsill in our classroom, home to a community o...
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Saturday, September 13, 2014

Buckets with holes

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Buckets come as they are, and they do one thing--they hold things. Everything, actually. In these parts they're generally made of plas...
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Bloomfield, NJ, United States
Very briefly a longshoreman, briefly a lab tech in a booze plant, more recently a pediatrician in the projects, now a high school teacher in my hometown.
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