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Cover Story: Alfie Kohn
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Why Self-Discipline Is Overrated
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To inquire into what underlies the idea of self-discipline is to uncover serious misconceptions about motivation and personality, controversial assumptions about human nature, and disturbing implications regarding how things are arranged in a classroom or a society.
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Articles
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Teacher Study Groups: Taking the
"Risk" out of "At-Risk"
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The alternative to flunking students is teaching them. That requires teachers’ reflecting on their beliefs, perceptions, biases, emotions, attitudes, and behaviors.
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By Bill Page
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Can Anyone Learn to Draw?
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The "natural born artist" is a myth. Even the best of them needed the motivation and desire as well as the training and time.
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By Tim Newlin
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Finding Free Art Materials in Your Community
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When money is tight in school systems, art is frequently the first subject that suffers budget cuts...
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By Marilyn Brackney
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The Downside of Good Test Scores
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By Alan Haskvitz
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February 2009 Writing Prompts
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February sees the birth of jeans, a national park, the Supreme Court, and in Japan they’re throwing beans. And then a cow flew a plane...
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James Wayne
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In The Middle School
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In their desks, in the halls, they yell and talk of school, which has lasted forever in their lives, and will last forever, or so it seems....
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James Wayne
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Using Photography To Inspire Writing IV
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The author of Write What You See: 99 Photographs To Inspire Writing shares his teaching techniques The fourth in a series of articles.
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Hank Kellner
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Teacher Performance Assessment
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The quality of classroom processes is a function of how effectively a teacher guides his/her class, and the goal of teacher evaluation should be to improve classroom processes.
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P.R. Guruprasad
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How To Help Victims Of Bullying: Advice For Parents & Educators
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The US Justice Department says 80% of all students have been the victims of some form of Bullying. It’s time to start "Taking the Bully by the Horns."
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Kathy Noll
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Unwilling Student Meets Unwavering Teacher
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I realized that if one teacher took the time to tell me that I had a future, maybe it was true.
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Lauren Romano
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Notes From The Jungle - International Educator in Our Time
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In this excerpt, author John Price begins his candid and sometimes irreverent account of headmastering in a large school far from his native UK.
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John Price
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Lead the Class - Teachers as Leaders
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I am writing for those of us in schools at which "self-starter" is not a phrase often applied to a student.
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John Sweeting
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Teachers.Netters Share Favorite Recipes
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Warm up with white chicken chili and old family recipes for cornbread, chocolate gravy, and two skillet meals, shared by T-Netters on the Teachers Chatboard. Bon Appétit!
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Who Really Needs Four Years of Math and Science?
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I posit that increasing these requirements will increase the drop-out rate. Further, we will witness the demise of vocational education programs and fewer students enrolling in fine arts classes.
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Steven Davidson
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IMHO - Educators Speaking Up
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Memo to the New Secretary of Education and John Stossel: American students are NOT stupid.
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Collective Wisdom
Technology in the Art Classroom
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Art teachers collaborate on a wish list for 21st century art instruction equipment.
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