Celebrate Poetry!
By now you probably know that it is National Poetry Month. Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, …
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The Human Rights Conference
Each year in early March Kean University hosts a significant gathering devoted to Human Rights. This year the 6th Annual …
Celebrate Digital Learning Day!
Building upon a growing movement to leverage digital tools to support Connected Learning , teachers, schools, principals, community leaders, parents, …
A glimpse of NYC
As twitter colleague Jabiz Raisdana (@intrepidteacher) in Jakarta wrote “If you’ve ever lived in NYC, this film will fill your heart with …
On Resolutions, courtesy of Mark Twain
“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with …
Thanksgiving 2012
The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live. The gifts of earth are …
National Writing Project – Las Vegas 2012
Each year, right before Thanksgiving time, a special group of educators gather together to celebrate the importance of writing. Writing …
After the Storm
What I notice first within this rough scene fixed in memory is the rare quality of its lightning, …
For Sandy: “The Storm”
1 Against the stone breakwater, Only an ominous lapping, While the wind whines overhead, Coming down from the mountain, Whistling …
THATCamp THEORY
Last weekend I wrote enthusiastically about my first THATCamp which I attended at Fordham University-Lincoln Center. This weekend, I will attend my …
