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May 2012
Vol 9 No 5
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I Used to Think Grades Were Stupid; Then I Found Out I Was Right

By Bill Page • May 1st, 2012

As you review the year, offer a final exam, determine final grades, and issue report cards, this letter I wrote to Marcmight helpclarifying your grading and especially, I hope, your attitude toward grading.



I Had A Kid Who. . . Real Solutions for Real Behavior Problems

By Bill Page • Apr 1st, 2012

If kids were all alike, we could teach them all alike, but if some kids are different, we must make them like the others, or failing that effort, we must learn to make instruction fit their differences.



Stop Teaching! Let Kids Teach Themselves – Third in the “Two-Word” Series

By Bill Page • Mar 1st, 2012

The author says, “This strategy is so great, when I become Czar of Education, I will require its use, daily in every class.”



Teachers: Shush-up Again! Kids Need Time to Think (continued from January)

By Bill Page • Feb 1st, 2012

Last month Bill Page advised teachers to remember two important words: “shut up!” Now Bill says, “I have two more words for you to love and write on your palm…”



At-Risk Student Credo

By Bill Page • Jan 1st, 2012

Don’t try to change me–you can’t do it. I am the only one who can change me.
Show me, teach me, help me to see what you see. I can change myself.



At-Risk: Multiple Choice Definitions

By Bill Page • Jan 1st, 2012

Teachers are permitted to flunk kids instead of teaching them; Kids are permitted to flunk subjects instead of learning them.



Prophecies for the New Year

By Bill Page • Jan 1st, 2012

I am pleased to proffer some pretty certain classroom prophesies for the 2012, “back-to-school,” new, calendar year.



It’s Not the Kids Who Need to Shut Up

By Bill Page • Jan 1st, 2012

Whether you call it intercourse, conversation, exchange, chat, discussion, interlocution, discourse, communication, or gabbing, it ought to be required in every class.



Prophecies for the New Year

By Bill Page • Dec 28th, 2011

Seven prophesies, 15 fresh-start ideas, 21 thoughts and lots more for a new semester



If You’re Gonna Be a Camel, YaGotta Have a Hump; But Nobody Says You’ve Gotta Be a Camel.

By Bill Page • Dec 1st, 2011

Discovery of a pivotal mistake in my teaching radically changed my life and lives of my kids.



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