One of the leading groups of teachers who have designed action projects and lesson plans that focus on social justice is the iEARN (International Education and Resource Network). I met many of the teachers from iEARN when I was...
Read MoreThe title of this post is really a play on words in the sense that good teaching is characterized by an emphasis on student involvement, inquiry, and innovation. It happens naturally if we plan lessons that put the student in...
Read MoreToday I received a NARST list email from Angela Calabrese Barton (acb@msu.edu) & Bhaskar Upadhyay (upadh006@umn.edu) requesting research papers for submission for an issue of Equity & Excellence in Education on the theme...
Read MoreI received an email from Nate Carnes, President of the Southeast Association for Science Teacher Education (SASTE) announcing the SASTE’s annual conference entitled: Social Justice and High Quality Science Education for...
Read MorePeople who say “drill-baby-drill” are much like people in the 1980s when personal computers came on the scene saying we need more typewriters and carbon paper (paraphrased from Thomas Friedman–see the video in...
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