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book should make you feel uncomfortable

I first read To Kill a Mockingbird in high school and felt bored with the dialog, annoyed by the flat (and always either entirely good or entirely bad) characters and unsure about why we had to read it. Later, while working in a chaotic non-profit and Read More...
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2010 02 4

John Spencer

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the debate

I'm interested in reading a book called, Why We're Not Emergent. After my friend Brad mentioned it, I looked it up on Amazon. I started reading the heated debate between different groups who embrace the Emerging movement or who reject it entirely. It Read More...
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2009 01 1

John Spencer

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how we present World War II

I rarely use my textbook. However, we spent some time analyzing it for bias and propaganda. The easiest section is often considered the safest - World War II. I split them up into groups, where they analyzed any elements of bias and then we spent about Read More...
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2008 11 8

John Spencer

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standing on the banks

I once read that the streams of history are filled with the blood of martyrs and soldiers, with the loud waves of war, the boats battling upstream for progress and power and conquest. Yet, if you step away from the stream, off to the banks, you'll see Read More...
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2008 11 5

John Spencer

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a book all teachers should read

I'm almost finished with my master's degree. The Capstone Project sounds impressive on paper, but it's actually not all that innovative. All the ideas are from somebody else (research journals). Even if it is documented, it somehow feels like cheating. Read More...
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2008 10 22

John Spencer

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what are high expectations?

Last year, the Solutions Team from the Department of Education offered a long analysis of why our school is failing. First on the list was "low expectations." Similarly, when the district hired a man to conduct a climate survey the previous year the number Read More...
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2008 09 26

John Spencer

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re-reading Twain

After reading an article in Time Magazine, I've begun re-reading Mark Twain. My only real exposure to Twain was a well-intentioned fifth grade teacher who made us read Huck Finn. I hated it. I couldn't get past the dialect and the antiquated language. Read More...
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2008 08 8

John Spencer

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