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The New Teacher Project’s Speedy Miracle Immersions! Who’s Your Child’s Teacher?

April 17, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

My husband is an accounting professor. Two weeks ago he received a perky email from Anh-Thi Mouradav out of Nashville’s The New Teacher Project (TNTP) Teaching Fellows looking for him to forward her email request to accounting students who would make, in her words, “highly-effective math teachers.” He was quick to reply telling her that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Accounting, Fast-Track Training, Math Teachers, Middle School Teachers, special education, Teach for America, Teacher Preparation, The New Teacher Project

How Children Learn—Listening, Jeb Bush Et Al?

April 15, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

How do children learn? Why do they even bother with it? The best way to answer this question is to think back to how you learned when you were young. As a child what inspired you? When you were in school, what subjects did you like? Dislike? To borrow a term from the cooking diva […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Jeb Bush, learning, positive, standards, students, subjects, support

Announcing My New Website Format and Blog!

April 14, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

My new website covers Activism and School Curriculum and I still have the Blog. It is more manageable now. Point and clink on the title and the link should appear. The Activism site focuses on groups , organizations and people who are currently working to oppose the harmful reform taking place in our public schools. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Technology Tagged With: activism, blog, curriculum, math, public schools, reading, science, social studies, special education, the arts, website

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