Classroom Management Presentation Thanks to the Golden Apple Early Career Institute instructors (and awesome fellows) for helping inspire this presentation. …
Thanks to New Mexico Music Educators
I went to an event, Saturday, the 14th of January, which was the gathering of excellent musical students from around…
My First Day (or: Off to the Races)
by Mary Ann Constantini This will be different – very different. We were living in a small Arab sheikdom. My…
The Triumvirate and the Baby Teacher
By Del Hansen I don’t remember much about my first day of teaching. Whether because of abject fear, lack of…
My First Day
You can never go home again. You can never have a first day of teaching again. It’s a day anticipated…
What Students Carry
One of my favorite writing tasks to assign to students naturally arises during the course of reading “The Things They…
Aaron and the Computer Cart of Doom (A parable about why tech may not save education after all…)
Early in the morning, as I approached the classroom, I could hear his voice. Aaron, my school’s technology teacher, was…
Del Hansen’s Eleven Pretty Good Rules for Teaching Stuff
Good teaching is good teaching. Whether one discusses Macbeth, The Doppler Effect, or first grade reading rudiments, one knows that…
An Adopted Problem For New Mexico
New Mexico is on the verge of dumbing down education by adopting the Next Generation Science Standards with two adjustments…
Ask Not What Your School Can Do For You; Ask What You Can Do For Your School
By Christine Beverly, Golden Apple Fellow 2008 & Golden Apple Academy Chair Public school. Most people think public schools…
