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Teacher burnout is most often an organizational problem and it is insidious because it can remove dedicated teachers from the field of education, sometimes even before they physically leave their jobs. Its solution is found most often in creating a positive, supportive school culture and climate, where teachers are treated as professionals and given the opportunity to collaborate, problem solve, and get needed, reasonable supports in timely ways.
~Teacher Burnout: What Are the Warning Signs? | Edutopia
I don’t really have anything to add. I thought his was interesting.
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THE GREAT GATSBY - BAZ LUHRMANN - CHRISTMAS 2012
Hoooooly fucking shit, this looks a. maze. balls. Leo’s lookin hawt! And Baz Luhrmann is the shit, I’m so glad he was the one to redo this. I watched the Robert Redford one a couple months ago… oof. I can’t believe we have to wait until Christmas. Ugh. Omg. So excited. And so much more excited to go into NYC tonight weeeee!
Agreed. I am VERY excited for this.
From what I’ve seen, Carey Mulligan is the first Daisy that’s made sense to me. (I’ve seen both the Robert Redford version and the made-for-tv one with Paul Rudd as Nick and Mira Sorvino as Daisy. Awesome because Paul Rudd, but otherwise pretty meh.)
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The West Wing S03E16 The U.S. Poet Laureate
Poor naive Josh, how dare you pull rank on CJ Cregg?
One of my most favorite things.
(via jaquandor)
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You guys? I am way too excited about this. Seriously.
The show was created by several Tony Award-winning artists: The music is by Tom Kitt (“Next to Normal”) and Lin-Manuel Miranda (“In the Heights”), with lyrics by Mr. Miranda and Amanda Green and a book by Jeff Whitty (“Avenue Q”). Andy Blankenbuehler, who won a Tony for choreography for “In the Heights,” is the director and choreographer.
(Source: popculturebrain, via fyeahlilbitoeverything)
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sogracelessthatway replied to your post: girlwithalessonplan replied to your post: I just…
M. T. Anderson’s ‘Feed’ is a good sci-fi read, though if you’ve never read it. A great social commentary on politics, literacy, & social media.
I read it for my YA lit course in library school. It’s decent, but hard for me to recommend because even I’m really turned off by awkward fake teenage slang (or, really, even real teenage slang, because it gets dated so quickly). Good story, but the made-up words just always pulled me out of the narrative with a wrinkled-up nose.
I wholeheartedly agree with librariesandlemonade.
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Look what came in the mail for the TeamTeachers book club starting June 15. I hope it’s good, otherwise PPT owes me the cost of the book plus shipping and handling.
I think it will be worth the money. Not everything will fit you, or the students you have — but I’m confident that everyone will take something away from this book. I’ve already read 2 chapters of it — and it can be a little hokey cutesy at times, but overall it has REAL approaches to working with kids in different situations that leaves the kid still feeling loved, and you not feeling exhausted. When the basics are under control, we excel as teachers. When we excel as teachers and our students’ self-worths are in tact, they can focus and explore learning with less hurdles in their way.
i would like to have this book and read it all the way through, and not for a class assignment. :P
Then join the Team Teacher’s Summer Book Club — just get the book by June 15th!
I’d like to get in on the Book Club over the summer. Here’s to hoping I can find the book somewhere soon!
Amazon has it, and my friend got it at Barnes and Noble. I know Million Books also has it.
Hmm…I didn’t vote, but I do already have this book, so I might have to jump in. :)
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Angel and Buffy vs. Spike and Buffy
I would have weighed in, but commenter #2 did it for me. I kind of can’t believe this is even up for debate. This is a dealbreaker.
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~ I got this from Gawker. And I love it. I would eat it if I could. (via maureenjohnsonbooks)A little boy… sent me a charming card with a little drawing. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
— from Maurice Sendak’s 2011 interview with Terry Gross. [Fresh Air via @LettersOfNote]
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(Source: teachingliteracy)
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Collect dolls or knives or books or interesting rocks. Watch horror movies or romances or cartoons. Run races; go to spas. Eat cake or lettuce. Buy yourself a toy light saber and make your own wooooom noises while you wave it around; build a cardboard castle and chuck plush mushrooms at your would-be rescuers. Live your life, the way you want to live it, and understand that no one can kick you out of “the girl club” for doing it wrong, because you’re not.
~seanan_mcguire: Dear girls of the world today…
There are many, many reasons to adore Seanan. This is one of them.
