A few notes: John Holland is swimming in the reality of teacher leadership. A must read. [Future of Teaching] Chris Lehmann’s tired of us working from a deficit model when it comes to schools. “How do we fix broken schools?” is less of a question and m...

A few notes: Sherman Dorn schools fools on the idea of “school.” Particularly, he muses on the idea of educational institutions as a reflection of social inequity. Just. Read. [Sherman Dorn] For the computer science geeks out there, an infographic on the his...

A few notes: If you haven’t heard, Teacher Magazine / EdWeek published my first article last week! Comment there and show a brotha love! [EdWeek] I haven’t watched Avatar with the blue people, and I’m not watching the real Avatar: The Last Airbender, e...

A few notes: I wrote a great post about the difference between professionalism and integrity at the Future Teacher Leaders blog! Check it here. [TLN] Susan Ohanian discusses the Billionaire Boys’ Club of education … and compares it to a similar collective in...

A few notes: Renee Moore is a rebel with a cause. She’ll teach her kids whether third party vendors like it or not. Right up our alley, right? [TeachMoore] If you only know the 1/2 of what the BP oil disaster means in the grand scheme of things, you’re about...

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A few notes: Matt Taibbi breaks David Brooks’ elitist column down with a passion of … a blogger. Read his latest about Brooks’ assertions that rich people work harder. [True / Slant] Constance McMillen, a teen who wasn’t allowed to go to her prom...

A few notes: For those interested in Nicholas Feltron and tracking their whole life over the course of a year, I present this. [Daytum] I said this in my previous post, but maybe we do need to think more like children. [ScienceBlogs] Every Child Left Behind part 1238091...

A few notes: A great example of what happens when we try to control every little part of a staff’s speech in order to make them sound like they’re “normal.” [Vocalo] Google buys into Pi Day. [Mashable] An ed-techy’s case for pedagogy …...

This past Saturday, I had the fortune of attending the TEDxNYED conference, an independently run conference based on the TED conferences where they speak on an idea for a good 18-20 minutes about whatever topic they like. While some critics have come out in full force a...