secondary school teacher
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IGNITE presentation: Arts-based research
For those of you who haven’t found out about the Pecha Kucha style of presentation, there’s already another kid on the block. It’s even faster than Pecha Kucha with 20 slides at 15 seconds each. I found it really difficult to do asynchronously but that’s what my professor wanted so I tried. First she had…
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Change Agent rant
WARNING: the following response could be seen as a rant. It probably is. I read the Cochran-Smith & Lytle article with some trepidation. One of the hard things about being a teacher-librarian in 2013 is that I expect any day now that some policymaker is going to make me redundant. Ouch. So when I read…
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My right brain play fighting with my left brain
Even after just one week of studying educational research, I find myself reaching for the vocabulary of research as I read to identify patterns in the research papers that match my emerging understanding. In examining Gallop’s ideas about ethical reading, I am reminded of Derrida’s theories of deconstructing texts and McLuhan’s ideas about the medium…
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I’m an amateur researcher
I have been a teacher since 1994, spending 3 years teaching English in Japan, and the rest in Ontario teaching drama, English, and media arts in the classroom and online. I became a teacher-librarian full-time in 2009. Currently working ⅚ a teacher-librarian in a large secondary school. My other ⅙ has me back in the…
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Tuned out: Engaging the 21st century learner by Karen Hume
Tuned Out: Engaging The 21st Century Learner by Karen Hume My rating: 2 of 5 stars If you want a quick snapshot of all that’s happening in educational theory, this is the book for you. At the risk of sounding over-confident, this is exactly why this book was not for me. It’s a basic primer…
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Becoming a Great High School by Tim Westerberg
Becoming a Great High School: 6 Strategies and 1 Attitude That Make a Difference by Tim Westerberg My rating: 3 of 5 stars Westerberg manages to combine a whole whack of educational theorists work in this short book. We read it as a conversation starter for our department heads/administration/directions’ team day away which falls between…
threadbare beauty 