Blog Check: SMS Guys Read

I am really excited to share with everyone a blog check that quite frankly…..should have been done a looooong time ago. SMS Guys Read is a blog that is composed by Mr. Hutchinson, “slightly unhinged teacher”, and a group of middle school students. This group of students can easily be identified by their trucker like…

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Iam An Optimist

I’ve got a problem. In today’s climate of education, it can be very easy to focus the short comings of teachers, and students. I feel like many of the educators I know in my life, have a grim outlook on the direction that education is heading. In conversations, I often find myself being the person…

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Mr. McClung’s Top Ten

….wait a minute, wrong top ten list…. A few weeks ago, I asked for suggestions on what were the blog post highlights from the 08′-09′ school year. I posted this question on my blog and also on my sixth grade social network that several of my students still use over the summer. I received some…

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Teaching 21st Century Life Skills?

Way back in May, during our last two weeks of school, I had a particular student that missed about a weeks worth of school due to the fact that her mother was about to have a baby boy. While this student was gone, I figured that she was probably taking it easy with her mother…

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Teaching 21st Century Life Skills?

Way back in May, during our last two weeks of school, I had a particular student that missed about a weeks worth of school due to the fact that her mother was about to have a baby boy. While this student was gone, I figured that she was probably taking it easy with her mother…

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National Science Teachers Association Feature

Last night I stumbled across some hits coming to my blog from an unfamiliar website. Naturally, being a FEEDJIT junkie, I followed the traffic and found the National Science Teachers Association Website. The fine folks behind this wonderful teacher resource tool decided to feature out classblog on their website. Here is what was said: Missouri…

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