No, this isn’t a post about the love life of a popular Star Trek: The Next Generation character.It’s a post about you and your professional sanity. Recently, I was speaking with a neighbor who is a teacher. After telling her about this new blog and inviting her to send me topical ideas, her eyes grew…
Technology
A Can of Worms: Education Reform and Technology
Despite the risk of opening a can of worms in our third post at the Upper Grades Exchange, I am going to talk about two things. Here, there, and everywhere in education circles, two refrains are heard over and over again: “Reform is a must” and “It’s technology or bust.” Recently over at our sister blog, Be…
Introducing the Weekly Reader Digital Edition
Weekly Reader is going digital! Starting this fall, teachers who subscribe to the grade 1 or grade 2 edition will have access to a new digital edition of the magazine, in addition to the familiar paper copies. That means teachers can display the issue on a computer screen or electronic whiteboard or use a projector to display it on a regular whiteboard.