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Author Archives: Abner Oakes
In real time
The other day, my wife made a comment about the time that orientation starts at my son’s new middle school. The kids are to report at 7:50 in the morning, and she wondered aloud about this time’s oddness, its disconnect … Continue reading
Posted in School, School district, Teaching
Tagged bell schedule, passing periods, westland middle school
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Schools designed for learning
This article in Ed Week, called Form Meets Function in Finland’s New Schools, reminded me of a couple of high schools I visited when in North Carolina last year: Monstrosities. Huge. Impersonal. Architecturally and design bereft. Just boxes built next … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom, School, School district, Teaching
Tagged dr. maya angelou community high school, east fairhaven elementary school, finland, Hiidenkivi Comprehensive School, hmfh architects, Kirkkojärvi Comprehensive School, mario torroella, School Design and Planning Laboratory, smith and vansant, Strömberg Comprehensive School
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State Education Agencies Focusing on Technical Assistance
My second article on the Common Core for ASCD. You can also see it here and sign up at that site to get ASCD’s Common Core-focused newsletter. Here goes: School districts and state education agencies are developing close working relationships … Continue reading
Teaching cursive and handwriting
My handwriting is awful. Just awful. I signed some forms at the doctor’s office last week, and the nurse looked at my signature and commented that I “should’ve been a doctor.” I guess the cursive writing instruction I got back … Continue reading
Oklahoma!
Last week, my son’s fifth grade class put on the show Oklahoma. This show and those that had come before are part of an annual year-end ritual at our little elementary school, the fifth grade musical. The show was double … Continue reading
Posted in School
Tagged oklahoma, school culture, westbrook elementary school, westland middle school
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Young Adult Literature or The Hunger Games Explained
My college classmate Ann Jacobus writes and writes about Young Adult literature, and I got the OK to re-purpose the below piece that she’d written for my college class’s newsletter. You can find Ann at www.annjacobus.com and www.readerkidz.com. Here goes … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Parents, Teachers, Teaching
Tagged ann jacobus, Cory Doctorow, feed, harry potter, kidlit, Little Brother, M.T. Anderson, Marcus Zuzak, Nancy Farmer, patrick ness, The Book Thief, The House of the Scorpion, the hunger games, The Knife of Never Letting Go, twilight, young adult literature
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