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Draft Intro for Book of Learning Stories
For anyone interested in learning a bit more about what the book will look like . . . ——– This is a book of different people’s stories. Some are about teachers who changed their students’ lives. Some...
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The Book of Learning Stories — Title Search
I need your help in coming up with the title for the book of learning stories. Whoever submits the winning entry will get a $50 gift card to the bookstore of their choice. Here are the three I have so...
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Name the Book Competition — We May Have a Winner!
First off, thanks are in order to everyone who has weighed in — either here or on Facebook — to offer such useful feedback on our ongoing search for a title to the forthcoming book of 50 learning...
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What If Learning — Not Fighting — Were the Focus?
(This article also appeared in the Huffington Post.) As accusations fly back and forth over the reported DC cheating scandal – the latest in a series of battles between America’s two dominant...
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Story Time
The other night, at a friend’s house for an early evening barbeque, I tried and failed repeatedly to get my 3-year-old son to eat his dinner. It didn’t matter that the other kids at the table were...
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Are Parent Trigger Laws a Good Idea?
It’s hard not to feel excited for the group of parents who successfully took over their California community’s school, and who now are dreaming of bigger things. “Our children will now get the...
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A Different Story About Public Education
I know we’re already one month into 2013, but think back to last year for a second: What were the most talked about education stories of 2012? I’m guessing your list looks something like this – Common...
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Teacher Stories
This morning, I gave a keynote presentation at the 15th annual conference of the New Teacher Center. Thanks to the great work of some friends at Prezi, I tried to offer a visual contextual path for...
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How to Tell a Good Learning Story
(This article originally appeared in Education Week). Last week, at the New Teacher Center’s 15thannual conference in San Jose, I urged more than 700 educators to start telling their own stories about...
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Your Education Stories (for a price)
It’s suddenly in vogue to gather and tell stories as part of an organization’s larger strategy to build an audience and effect change. On one level, I love this development — indeed, I’ve been...
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