Classroom Saviors

Posted by mimi on Jan 20, 2007 in dish | 0 comments Lots to think about in this article from the New York Times, entitled “Classroom Distinctions.” In it, author Tom Moore, who is himself a teacher in the Bronx, discusses Hollywood’s take on teachers. According to Moore, the Hollywood version of good teaching encompasses three tasks:Assemble a rough, multicultural groups of misfits Assign said misfits one idealistic young...
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Teaching to the Choir

Posted by mimi on Jan 6, 2007 in dish | 0 comments Last night I picked up a copy of an interesting book, Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers. Authors Daniel Moulthrop, Nínive Clements Calegari, and Dave Eggars build a case for educational improvement based on treating teachers like the professionals they are, starting with their pocketbooks.Full disclosure: I am a teacher, and I do believe I...
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Tropically Depressing Ernesto

Posted by mimi on Aug 30, 2006 in dish | 0 comments Central Florida’s suffering through its first bout of hurricane fever this season thanks to a weakling named Ernesto. The tracking maps showed him paying us a visit, so counties all over canceled school for today. Of course, now we have to make up the missed day the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. So much for travel plans.So today we stayed in, and it was…wait for it…rainy....
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Radioactive Republicans

Posted by mimi on Aug 26, 2006 in dish | 0 comments Chez mimi’s been getting a lot of phone calls this week about political candidates. We’re a divided house: one Democrat, one Republican. DH and I figure that splitting the registrations means that each of us can choose the best candidate in the closed-party primary, then vote our respective consciences in the general election.Usually, there’s one obvious candidate on the...
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