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You'll find practical classroom strategies and tips from real educators, as well as lesson ideas, personal stories, and innovative approaches to improving your teaching practice. If you have any thoughts or comments about these blogs, please don't hesitate to let us know.

Heather Wolpert-GawronDecember 21, 2009

I'm really struggling with my feelings about tenure.

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Owen EdwardsDecember 14, 2009

I have a foolproof way of getting out of boring party conversations. This method either reinvigorates the conversation, or brings it to a mercifully swift end. The only requirement for this ploy is that the person with whom I'm talking has to be the parent of a student at a public secondary school.

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Elena AguilarDecember 11, 2009

My colleague, Anthony Cody, has initiated a campaign urging teachers to write letters to President Obama sharing our opinions of his education policies. Please visit the Teachers' Letters to Obama Project, where educators are posting their letters.

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Stephen HurleyDecember 9, 2009

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point, suggests that our public schools would benefit from a spirit of innovation rather than one of regimentation.

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Bob LenzDecember 4, 2009

I recently returned from the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), in Doha, Qatar. The 20-hour flight provided me with plenty of time to reflect on my journey. I was asked to attend because of my blog posts on Edutopia.org and because of Envision Schools's innovative school model.

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Suzie BossDecember 2, 2009

At Eagle Rock School, in Estes Park, Colorado, the alpine air is so thin, it literally takes your breath away. For most of the 96 teens living and learning here, the Rocky Mountain setting couldn't be more different from the city streets they've left behind.

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Heather Wolpert-GawronNovember 29, 2009

I've always been a multitasker. It frustrated my own teachers at times in that I always needed to be doing two things at once in order to be fully alert. My brain works like riding a bicycle: If I move too slowly, my attention span simply tips over.

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Owen EdwardsNovember 25, 2009

May I now lead three boisterous cheers for Spanish, French, Japanese, Arabic, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Latin, Farsi, German, and Urdu as a second language. And any other of the scores of global languages you'd like to include.

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EdutopiaNovember 20, 2009

As Thanksgiving approaches, I just wanted to say thank you -- it's something educators just don't hear often enough.

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Ben JohnsonNovember 19, 2009

The act of teaching is a complicated endeavor that defies anyone to clearly define it in simple terms. I would like to give it a whirl -- with a little twist.

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