admin on December 8th, 2008
I was teaching English to a class of high school juniors in a nearby city last Friday when I had another one of those precious cultural moments. The 15 of us were sitting in a circle talking about the differences between the American and Czech school systems when we heard some ruckus outside in the hall. Someone yelled “Pomoc!” (help). Then someone else yelled “Zpivej!” (sing). Suddenly a gang of angels, demons and a couple of rather pope-ish looking characters burst into our classroom and

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Hauled off to Hell in a Handbag
Blog for iplittle on December 5th, 2008
We got a toy catalog in the mail today, called “Back to Basics.” I happen to love this catalog, because it contains all the toys that I remember from my own childhood.

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That’s For Girls!
ISA on December 5th, 2008
Today’s TES has one of the clearest indications to date of New Labour’s pet General Teaching Council’s real attitude to teachers. A parent came into a school, returned a mobile phone to his daughter after a teacher had confiscated it, and subjected the teacher to abuse

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New Labour’s GTC – unacceptable conduct
admin on December 2nd, 2008
Well we have had a busy day today both Nic and i have earned our pay today. Nic and i were both teaching today at the same time quiet a novel experience

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Random
Blog for iplittle on December 1st, 2008
Not that I have a HUGE readership, but I know that some of you who read this know me well enough to know that my life’s purpose involves being overseas. Not just traveling but immersing and engaging mysef in other cultures. I’ve been meaning to share this but just never got around to it, but thought it was about time… I’m finally going overseas, again. After I finished seminary, my intention was that I head oversesas to serve in community development or church work, but I ended up staying

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it’s time.
ISA on November 30th, 2008
Much to my delight and surprise, I’ve been asked to serve as an “expert voice” for the New Jersey Powerful Learning Practice (NJPLP) virtual community. Powerful Learning Practice is a program designed to impact instructional methodologies and beliefs by using a combination of real and virtual experiences to build knowledge within a community of teachers, principals, university faculty and state level administrators. Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson have done an excellent job of design

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On Becoming an Expert