More about teaching in Baltimore . . .

Here is another post from my forgotten blog. This is probably the most important thing I learned from my experience in Baltimore, maybe even in my entire teaching career.

One of my students in Baltimore, lets call him “James”, used to joke about being a “four year veteran” of our school. Middle school, [...]

Teach for America and me

Today I commented on a blog post about the sad state of education in America. I began my career as an educator in Baltimore City as a member of the Teach for America 1998 Corps. Baltimore, with a graduation rate of only 38.5% is surely one of the saddest educational systems in the [...]

Comment Challenge Day 5: Comment on a Post You Disagree With

For today’s challenge, you’re going to find a blog post where you don’t agree with the author and leave a comment.
It took me a long time to get to this post because I had trouble finding something I disagreed with.  I read a lot of blogs by like-minded people, a lot of “just the facts” [...]

Comment Challenge Day 4: Ask a Question

Your task for today (courtesy of Christy Tucker ) is ask an open-ended question in a comment.
This task was easy because Cliff Mims published a post about a class he’s going to be teaching soon. Since I teach a similar class about instructional technology in k12 education, I’m very interested to know more about [...]