Saturday, December 12, 2015

What would it take to observe a Sabbath?

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I have been reading Jacob Neusner 's A Rabbi Talks with Jesus for my Daughters of Abraham book club. In one of his chapters Neusner exa...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Making a Changemaker: Five Ways to Help Kids Find Their Cause

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NPR’s Planet Money recently ran a  story  about Madeline Messer, a 12 year old girl who wrote an op ed piece for  the Washington Post  abou...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

From Beginner to Master Teacher -- year two-- the importance of mentors

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http://inspiringmomentsblog.com/do-you-have-a-business-mentor/ Teachers in their second year are ready to focus more intentionally on th...
Friday, November 28, 2014

New Teacher Seminar:The Best Classroom Observations --Third in a series on developing new teachers

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A great deal of my week is spent in teachers' classrooms observing them teach. I do this work at their invitation, as a part of our scho...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

The New Teacher Seminar:books that work - Second in Series on Developing New Teachers

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I recently gave a presentation at  the PAIS Biennial Conference  titled "From Hiring to Mastery: A Comprehensive Induction Process....
Monday, October 6, 2014

So your child’s teacher is new to teaching. . .

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Every teacher has to have a first year of teaching. Over the course of her school years, your child will have a first year teacher or two....
Sunday, September 28, 2014

From Beginner to Master Teacher -- year one -- the importance of mentors

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1994, my first year of teaching, I had a two day orientation focused on school policies. I was given a text by my department chair and invit...