Comments on: “lullaby for our times” http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2008/04/lullaby-for-our-times/ your source for illegal theology downloads Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:57:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: michael lee http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2008/04/lullaby-for-our-times/#comment-144465 michael lee Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:37:01 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=1996#comment-144465 I am sad in my heart. Shardyn, you should know by now that this isn't a blog about anything, except the things people decide to talk about on any given day. Comment away! I am sad in my heart.

Shardyn, you should know by now that this isn’t a blog about anything, except the things people decide to talk about on any given day. Comment away!

]]> By: sharolyn http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2008/04/lullaby-for-our-times/#comment-144463 sharolyn Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:56:38 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=1996#comment-144463 This is the last comment I’ll make on this topic, first of all, because it can get sad, and also because this isn’t an educational blog and there are better angsty, ironic, Gen Xy things to discuss. This should leave no doubt that No Child Left Behind has fingerprints all over our curricula – Click the MP3 for “Test Me”. <a href="http://www.musick8.com/store/alphadetail.tpl?cart=1208883066472749&productgroup=1712&category=Search%20Results&searchfield=[searchfield]&subcatsearch=[subcatsearch]&uks=MK8-M164" rel="nofollow">link</a> This is the last comment I’ll make on this topic, first of all, because it can get sad, and also because this isn’t an educational blog and there are better angsty, ironic, Gen Xy things to discuss. This should leave no doubt that No Child Left Behind has fingerprints all over our curricula – Click the MP3 for “Test Me”.

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]]> By: sharolyn http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2008/04/lullaby-for-our-times/#comment-144422 sharolyn Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:11:16 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=1996#comment-144422 To hopefully give some refreshing feedback, I feel so blessed to be in a district that is thriving; making a few cuts that don't touch the kids. (For example getting vacuumed every-other night instead of every night.) However, we are dipping $2 million in reserves for next year to keep up what we already have. I overheard someone say "Affluence breeds education". I have to think about that one for a while. It is humbling to have individuals go to bat for your life's work. To hopefully give some refreshing feedback, I feel so blessed to be in a district that is thriving; making a few cuts that don’t touch the kids. (For example getting vacuumed every-other night instead of every night.) However, we are dipping $2 million in reserves for next year to keep up what we already have. I overheard someone say “Affluence breeds education”. I have to think about that one for a while. It is humbling to have individuals go to bat for your life’s work.

]]> By: Gretchen http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2008/04/lullaby-for-our-times/#comment-144410 Gretchen Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:44:34 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=1996#comment-144410 I overheard two teachers ( I think Jr. High/High School) at the Getty on Friday, saying "Oh ANYONE can teach, it's the classroom management that takes skill" . Now granted, yes, the classroom management creates the environment that will enhance or deter learning. But I like to think that there is some creativity in teaching (yes, even those suffering under NCLB) and a passion that drives those really excellent teachers through this dry cycle, who will last through to the pendulum swinging the other way back into whole learning with art, science, social studies,music, creative writing, pleasure reading, hands on activities, plays, discourse, observation, experimenting, problem solving, physical activity, computer skills, library time...ya know, all that is currently missing. I overheard two teachers ( I think Jr. High/High School) at the Getty on Friday, saying “Oh ANYONE can teach, it’s the classroom management that takes skill” . Now granted, yes, the classroom management creates the environment that will enhance or deter learning. But I like to think that there is some creativity in teaching (yes, even those suffering under NCLB) and a passion that drives those really excellent teachers through this dry cycle, who will last through to the pendulum swinging the other way back into whole learning with art, science, social studies,music, creative writing, pleasure reading, hands on activities, plays, discourse, observation, experimenting, problem solving, physical activity, computer skills, library time…ya know, all that is currently missing.

]]> By: Cerise http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2008/04/lullaby-for-our-times/#comment-144408 Cerise Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:41:52 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=1996#comment-144408 Oh, well, then private school's got to go. Sushi not negotiable. Darned Japanese... Michael and Gretchen, I don't worry about YOUR kids one little bit. Music and discourse, among other things, I think will be a household staple, no? It's the other kids in public education I'm concerned about. Oh, well, then private school’s got to go. Sushi not negotiable. Darned Japanese…

Michael and Gretchen, I don’t worry about YOUR kids one little bit. Music and discourse, among other things, I think will be a household staple, no? It’s the other kids in public education I’m concerned about.

]]> By: michael lee http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2008/04/lullaby-for-our-times/#comment-144401 michael lee Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:31:58 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=1996#comment-144401 awwww, my heart just broke in a couple places. The thought of sending my kids off to school in this kind of an environment gives me cold sweats. Gretchen (who would know much better than I) thinks that educational goals a cyclical, and that by the time our kids hit elementary school, there will again be an emphasis on arts and all that good stuff. I hope so, because there's no way we can afford private school AND "Sushi Tuesdays". awwww, my heart just broke in a couple places.

The thought of sending my kids off to school in this kind of an environment gives me cold sweats. Gretchen (who would know much better than I) thinks that educational goals a cyclical, and that by the time our kids hit elementary school, there will again be an emphasis on arts and all that good stuff.

I hope so, because there’s no way we can afford private school AND “Sushi Tuesdays”.

]]> By: sharolyn http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2008/04/lullaby-for-our-times/#comment-144386 sharolyn Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:08:47 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=1996#comment-144386 This is the other extreme of rote learning. A succinct example: a child who knows that 2+3=5, but doesn't know how to add. Thankfully, we at Addison Road have mastered the art of when each philosophy is called for. ;) After I posted this yesterday we went to a wedding. There, we ran into a public music teacher friend who just got laid off for the second time in her six-year career. :( This is the other extreme of rote learning. A succinct example: a child who knows that 2+3=5, but doesn’t know how to add. Thankfully, we at Addison Road have mastered the art of when each philosophy is called for. ;)

After I posted this yesterday we went to a wedding. There, we ran into a public music teacher friend who just got laid off for the second time in her six-year career. :(

]]> By: june http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2008/04/lullaby-for-our-times/#comment-144382 june Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:56:48 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=1996#comment-144382 Ok, the most frightening thing about this is that it was posted by and commented on by the blog's two elementary school teachers! Sigh. Ok, the most frightening thing about this is that it was posted by and commented on by the blog’s two elementary school teachers!

Sigh.

]]> By: Gretchen http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2008/04/lullaby-for-our-times/#comment-144370 Gretchen Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:56:22 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=1996#comment-144370 oh it's just so sad. And true. oh it’s just so sad. And true.

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