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Good Dog, Bad Dog: Merit Pay for Teachers
Dog biscuits are not the answer. By Claudia Felske – So there I was listening to my superintendent explain district initiatives and priorities: we need individualized student learning; we need...
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Why My Husband Makes Me Uncomfortable
Don’t get comfortable By Claudia Felske – “The more comfortable you get with where you are, the harder it is to change.” Those were my husband’s words last Saturday morning as we sat, 30 feet up, on a...
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3 Things We Must Admit (and Do) If We’re Serious About Improving Teaching...
By Claudia Felske What prompted such self-indulgent reflection? What led me to actually create a pie chart about myself!? The other day, I read a tweet asking for input on accreditation of Teacher...
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A Tale of Two Scholars (actually three).
By Claudia Felske – One Youtube video + one email + one Facebook post = A Tale of Two Scholars (actually three). Let me explain. Suli Breaks, Spoken Word Artist from England, posted a video “Why I Hate...
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The Best Conference I Didn’t Attend
By Claudia Felske Personalized learning, virtual learning, MOOCs, flipped classroom, blended learning, differentiation, gamification, adaptive learning, digital storytelling, asynchronous learning. If...
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Confessions of a Cell Phone Terrorist
The Monster in the Mirror By Claudia Felske — Ever experience a disconnect between you and what you see in the mirror? Ever run across an old photo of yourself, and seriously wonder Who IS that?! I...
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Monkey Business: The Gamification of AP English
By Claudia Felske– Monkeys: whimsical, goofy, playful stuff. Business: goals, achievement, bottom line stuff. Why can’t school be both? That’s what I’m attempting to do this year: Monkey...
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Let’s flip the payscale too while we’re at it…
By Claudia Felske – Seems everyone’s flipping their classrooms these days, so why not flip the pay scale too while we’re at it? School district financing is an increasingly tricky business and perhaps...
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Incredible or Idiotic? You be the Judge
By Claudia Felske – Imagine letting students do whatever they want in your classroom. Imagine the chaos, the pandemonium, the accidents waiting to happen. Can you imagine anything more irresponsible?...
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I’m Still Grateful
By Claudia Felske – Yes, it’s Thanksgiving; Yes, I’m a teacher in Wisconsin; Yes, I’m still grateful. Why? 1. I get to teach kids. Ten more dubious initiatives can come down from DPI, twenty more from...
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Top Teachers in America are Bipolar
By Claudia Felske – Okay, I’ll admit it. My attention getter is a bit on the tawdry and dramatic side, but according to the 2013 Perspective of Irreplaceable Teachers: What America’s Best...
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Yes they can, thankyouverymuch. And here’s the evidence.
By Claudia Felske – Tired of reading articles and hearing commentary about how far behind our students are, how they can’t read or write, I feel compelled to share two papers I just corrected from my...
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Facebook, Cheese Whiz, My Husband and other such things
By Claudia Felske — Cheese Whiz? TMZ? Farmville? Justin Bieber? Any shameful indulgences you’re not particularly proud of? Any guilty pleasure you’d like precisely no one else to know about? Three...
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Ludicrous.
By Claudia Felske – I’m generally one to abstain from conspiracy theories. I’m generally one to see the glass half full, I’m generally one to see both sides of an issue, but I’m having a hard time with...
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Incredible or Idiotic? Turns Out, It’s Somewhere Inbetween.
By Claudia Felske – You may recall dear reader, (or more optimistically, dear readers) back in September, I was embarking on a classroom experiment called the 20% project. Here’s the whole sordid...
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To Answer Her Question…
By Claudia Felske – If you’re anything like me, you frequently have the perfect come back…twenty minutes too late. In this case, was 24 hours too late. Friday night, my husband and I were at a banquet...
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Follow the Money: ISTE 2014
By Claudia Felske – Last year, around this time, I was an International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference wanna-be, lurking via #ISTE2013, drooling over tweets I was reading by...
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An Imperfect Cake: Gamification in AP English
I presented Megan with the first Golden Ape By Claudia Felske If you’re a Marquette Educator loyalist (or dare I dream a Claudia Felske enthusiast) you may recall that in Fall, I committed to...
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How Many Zentner’s Are Out There?
By Claudia Felske – How many Zentners are out there? This past June, Eric Zentner, an 18-year veteran English teacher with a reputation of classroom excellence, sent an open resignation letter to the...
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A (Quasi) Rant on the State of Education
By Claudia Felske – Is it still considered a rant if you are ASKED your opinion on an issue about which you have PLENTY to say? For the past two years, I’ve served on a state educational advisory...
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