Google Voice!

http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html Google Voice is another web-based tool I am using to help students learn.  Give it a try.  It’s definitely been a challenge setting up.

PBS Newshour Teacher Videos

The PBS Newshour is a one hour news broadcast that covers national and international events.  It is hosted by Jim Lehrer and contains a incredible segment for teachers to use in their classrooms.  Lesson plans, in-depth stories, student created news, daily videos, and more are included in this site.  Please let me know what you [...]

Site Visits for the NBLA

Over the past year, both the Restructuring Committee and the Design Team for the New Bedford Leadership Academy have gone on quite a few site visits, as well as researching many other schools and districts. Our goals were to collect data and observe instructional strategies, leadership and governance, small school designs, thematic instruction, and more.  [...]

RAFTS: Diversity & Unity

From time to time in the class, we will use the RAFTS strategy to explore different themes and topics in Multicultural Studies.  RAFTS stands for Role, Audience, Format and Topic.  As a writing tool, it can be a powerful organizer.  RAFTS also help students visualize themselves in the topics they are learning.  For the first [...]

Multicultural Studies Syllabus

Welcome!  Because I believe in the professionalism of teaching, I have for years given students detailed syllabuses in the beginning of the course to reach a couple of specific objectives.  First, I want to introduce the course.  It’s important to know what you are getting into.  Second, I want to give students an idea of [...]

2nd Semester Begins

Welcome to the beginning of the second semester!  From February to June, we’ll explore issues and content in AP US History as well as Multicultural Studies.  Both are extremely interesting courses that offer you opportunities to explore the 20th century in the domestic and foreign affairs of American history as well as diverse cultures and [...]

The Khost Attack & the Intelligence War Challenge

In an effort to share intelligence and discuss current events, here is another post from Stratfor.  This one details the double agent suicide bombing that killed 7 CIA operatives (some very high ranking) in Afghanistan.  In an age beyond the Cold War “James Bond” kind of CIA mystique, there are real dangers to intelligence operatives [...]

Green Belief

This is a poem from a former student, Mitchell Garner.  Working with 3rd Eye Unlimited as well as other non-profits and educational organizations, Mitchell is an inspiring young man who speaks his truth to power.  He’s also a poet and artist and a person who always has time to talk about the world, even though [...]

Leadership Academy Proposal

Today, we submitted our proposal for the New Bedford High School Leadership Academy to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.  Begun as a pilot project for our school’s restructuring efforts, the new school-within-a-school will be developed through out the 2009-2010 school year.  It’s projected opening is September 2010. This mandate from the Governor’s Executive [...]

Slavery by Another Name by Douglas Blackmon

Every year I check out the Pulitzer Prize winners in non-fiction as well as those from the National Book Award.  No matter what the subject, these books usually have two things in common that I love.  First, they are incredibly well researched.  The endnotes themselves tell a story about an author sitting in basements, sorting [...]

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