March 2014

All I Need Is This Lamp...

Posted by Blue Cereal on Thursday, 27 March 2014

If you want to completely derail any meeting of three or more educators - teachers, administrators, curriculum coordinators, outside consultants, or whatever - ask what our priorities should be.

You know, as educators - what are our priorities for the kids? It's hard to make a good plan without a clear target, so what are we trying to accomplish - you know, ideally?

It's a pretty easy question until you try to limit yourself to a reasonable number.

What Are We FOR?

Posted by Blue Cereal on Tuesday, 25 March 2014

This was the post that prompted me to set up an actual blog, shortly before the #OKEdRally in OKC on March 31st, 2014. It was also the first thing to get a response I liked better than my actual post. Both are reproduced in full here: 

What exactly are we for? 

I think this is worth considering anyway, but particularly so for Oklahoma educators planning on storming the Capitol in a few weeks. You never know, after all, who might ask.