EdCamp Santiago: The First Seven Days
Dedicated to all the educators, world-wide, who have participated in an EdCamp.
Go forth, spread the word to the far corners of the Earth, something is happening.
There’s something going on, a R(E)volution in teacher professional development. It’s called EdCamp….
A conference, that’s not a conference. An “unconference” is a better term. A new paradigm in teacher professional development, a new, creative, innovative way of staying up to date on what matters most to teachers. As I said, it’s a paradigm shift in teacher professional development. Let me repeat: Paradigm Shift.
Fear of Writing
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When I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself, that demands that I must write as I write. I have never renounced anything that I’ve written because I’ve been afraid of certain consequences. Nothing intimidates me when I write. I say what I think must be said.
~ Jacques Derrida
The extremes of experience and the limits of reality. This is a formula for which one can approach teaching teens. Often, our best planned efforts in the classroom fail to capture the students enthusiasm, and thusly, fail to capture the students’ engagement. We’ve all been there. What can be done to improve student engagement? Dr. Kieran Egan suggests we focus on what is common to all teens: heroes and heroines, and from this vantage point, allow teens the possibility to become comfortable with their own need to find out the answer to a fundamental question: Who is my hero, who has qualities that I would like to emulate. This book is an experiential account of just such an effort with three teens, descriptive in nature, and thus beneficial from a practical viewpoint, while addressing the theoretical issues from the beginning…
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The Collected Short Stories of T. Jerome Baker
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Each of the stories in this collection of short stories is a story, within a larger story. Though each story is entirely fictional, nonetheless, closer inspection is revelatory.
I have not managed to keep myself, the Storyteller, from appearing in
each story. Had I done so, I would have denied the tremendous influence that you, dear reader, has on each telling of the story.
For this reason, it has been my unique honor, pleasure and privilege to write for you.
I leave you by asking the only question that every Storyteller has ever asked since time began: Did you like your story?
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