I am on the curriculum advisory council for ITVS. ITVS funds, presents and promotes award-winning documentaries and dramas on public television and cable, innovative new media projects on the Web and the Emmy Award-winning weekly series Independent Lens.

The organization is in the process of doing a re-design of their website. The goal is to create a space for dialogue about using our documentary film clips and learning activities in the classroom. We also want to use this fan page to promote o… Continue

So what is to be done when a student farts in class?

Hey, don't laugh, this is a serious academic issue.

The way I see it, there are a coupla options.

1) Try to pretend it didn't happen. Of course, if it's stinky one, the boys sitting in and around the -- let's pretend I… Continue

There's a part of me that feels as if the discussion I raised the other day about how using technology in way that simply adds up to "digitalizing worksheets" devolved to a place where I feel I wasn't quite paying heed to the idea that I really do recognize the potential -- if not obvious… Continue

There was something exceptionally cool going on in Indianapolis this week during the NMSA annual conference where I just presented. Yet, it was also exceptionally troubling.

In the back of the exhibit hall somebody had set up a “Classroom of the 21rst Century”. Essentially, what they had… Continue

In addition to doing Professional Development for schools and districts, I also do student assemblies (with my YA author hat on.) And the truth is, while I like doing to adult events, the kids just smoke the grown-ups on the "fun for me" scale... it's not ev… Continue