Procrastadabbler

This weekend I’ve been working sporadically on the chapter that’s been hanging over my head for many months now. It’s gaining some kind of shape. It needs a lot of work, but I’m no longer discouraged.
The truth, however, is that when writing gets done, the teaching stuff falls by the wayside. The stuff that has [...]

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Recently I’ve heard rumbles against the actions Arne Duncan is planning for education on behalf of the Obama administration. I’ve also heard rumors that NYS is planning some drastic changes to expectations for teacher certification – especially is respect to Master degree requirements. I haven’t seen any details on that one.
I am disappointed in President [...]

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I’ve been really discouraged about my research/writing recently and really hating my teaching as well (not all of it, just parts). I can’t give up my teaching (it pays the bills), but I stepped away from the writing to see if it would make me feel better – not so stretched. I have writing projects [...]

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I’ve not been doing much writing lately because I’ve been struggling with figuring out what I want to say or write about. Writing turned into an obligation rather than a way of sharing my thinking and participating in a broader dialogue about the things that are important to me.
Today I saved an article from a [...]

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In my literacy theory class we’ve been studying the relationship of oral language to literacy acquisition and development. In my language, literacy, and diversity class we’re now reading about spoken word performance and it’s place in the African American Literate tradition (the work of Maisha Fisher among others). Fisher and others stress that it’s not [...]

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