The Best of Pedagogy in Practice

If you've come here because you're looking at my application to work in your school, I've put together this post with links to a few of my posts that I consider to contain my best thoughts on education.  Being push-button publishing, blogging doesn't always produce fully developed thoughts; however, I strive to publish my best reflections using this medium.  I hope you enjoy them, and thank you for your interest.

I hope my regular readers will enjoy this updated trip into the archives as well.  And now that summer vacation has started, look out, because I've got at least five drafts just screaming to see the light of day.

Why I Blog
It's About the Teaching

Reflections
Enthusiasm
A Conversation With My Wife
One Trick Pony

Reading
Explicit Reading Instruction
Teaching Reading: A Reflection and a Way Forward
Book Clubs
Multiple Intelligences of Teaching Poetry

Vocabulary
Rethinking Vocabulary Instruction
Semantic Mapping Website
Human Brain Cloud

Writing and Grammar
Giving Feedback
Correcting Writing Errors
Teaching Grammar

Classroom Management
Learning Students' Names
Disciplinary Interventions
Conversation Calendars

Assessment
Individual Formative Assessment with Graphs

Professional Development
Summer Reading 2011
Welcome OCTE Conference Colleagues
Readicide Book Review

General Pedagogy
Third Times a Charm: IEP Assignment
WebQuests Are So Cool!
IEPs for Every Student
Classroom Community Building

Summer Reading 2011 on Twitter

My copy of Classroom Assessment & Grading that Work just arrived.  This evening or tomorrow, I'll start the reading due Saturday, this year tweeting responses as I read with the hashtag #PIPreading.  If you're reading or have read Classroom Assessment, hopefully you'll help make this more than a one sided conversation.  I'll be searching Twitter for that hashtag, but if you'd like to leave your Twitter ID in the comments, I'll just follow you.  Mine is bleckley.

Summer Reading Schedule

So looking at the page counts we're dealing with, we've got 770 pages to cover in 10 weeks.  That's about 77 pages per week.  Hopefully I'm not the only one having second thoughts.

Classroom Assessment and Grading that Work

• By Saturday, July 2, read through page 88.
• By Saturday, July 9, finish the book.

Narrative Counseling in Schools

• By Saturday, July 16, read through page 87
• By Saturday, July 23, finish the book.

Comprehensive Classroom Management

• By Saturday, July 30, read through page 76
• By Saturday, August 6, read through page 155
• By Saturday, August 13, read through page 254 (ouch)
• By Saturday, August 20, read through page 330
• By Saturday, August 27, read through page 428 (ouch again)
• Saturday, September 3 - catch-up day if needed 

I realize this isn't ideal for those not on the west coast.  Should we knock out Marzano or Winslade in just a week to accomodate those who'll start school around August 20th?  Your questions, comments, concerns, threats, and tomatoes are are welcomed in the comments.