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art isn't meant to last
22 November 08 08:41 AM
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John Spencer
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A few minutes before class, two gruff, oil stained men saunter into my room. The first man scratches himself and then pulls out a sketch on a sheet of graph paper. "I don't think there's adequate plumbing. Looks like they'll have to knock out the wall."
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good and bad news
18 November 08 05:45 AM
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John Spencer
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The superintendent announced that Borman Middle School will shut down at the close of this school year and re-open as a K-8 school. Whether we will have the same name is uncertain. Personally, I will not feel hurt if we lose the name. Somehow both Frank
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seven reasons why committees fail
28 August 08 06:35 AM
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jtspencer
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Often, the best words in life are the easiest to spell. Freedom, chocolate, barbecue, love, peace. The worst words are difficult to spell: racism, xenophobia, beuracracy, committee. I know I am oversimplifying here. Beauty is an exception to this rule.
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what happens in Vegas . . .
19 June 08 05:07 AM
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jtspencer
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I wrote this while I was at a PLC Conference last week. They charged fourteen bucks for internet access (the equivalent of twenty-four tacos at Jack in the Box) so I waited until now to post it: In every era of American history, there is an archetypal
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the placebo effect
26 May 08 07:00 PM
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jtspencer
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I read recently about a research study, where they created fake marketing for a painkiller. Researchers at MIT wanted to see how people responded to the placebo being offered. Surprisingly, participants reported a higher level of success when the retail
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yearning for community
21 May 08 07:50 AM
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John Spencer's Blog - A Billion Blogs of Solitude
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Many of my colleagues have enormous desk calendars where they mark each passing day with a large red oversized Sharpie. I don't have a desk calendar. (Sometimes I think there must have been a teaching class I missed; perhaps when I was ditching the lesson
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5 things you won't see in my classroom
03 May 08 01:12 PM
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jtspencer
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Sometimes I feel like an outcaste as a teacher. There is a certain sense that I relish in this status. I have a few close friends whom I trust. It's just that my personality doesn't fit the "teacher personality." It's not that the "teacher personality"
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Second Video Blog: Lego
25 April 08 08:52 AM
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John Spencer's Blog - A Billion Blogs of Solitude
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This is my second video blog.
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