Came across a cacophony of seemingly unrelated things today until I read a really great article that gave them new meaning. For starters, the article made me think back to this woman I researched and took an interest in when I was at the old job piece.
So anyways, the great article by Julie Landsman has this part where she talks about immersing oneself into a foreign culture to be able to understand (however briefly) what it is like to walk in another's shoes. It immediately got me thinking about Betsy Rogers, the 2003 National Teacher of the Year who, earlier this year, had a blog about her experiences in a new school where she did just that. I read her posts and even commented once or twice along the way.
Conversely, I saw somewhere something about a lecture or seminar on blogging by some professors from Northeastern. I believe it may be tomorrow but, oddly enough, there's no trace of the event anywhere on the web. Also tomorrow - and at Northeastern as well - Marvin Miller will be flying to town to give a presentation for the Deaf Club on his vision of building the world's first fully integrated town; Laurent, South Dakota.
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that first article reminded me of a friend who has two children in a public school system; her two children are 2 of 3 black kids in the whole school.
they tried to say the oldest had adhd and wanted to give her medication...my friend refused their "advice" and when they did her child's iq test and asked her a few questions about the schoolwork at hand, it turned out that the poor child was bored to death, was reading at a much more advanced level, and was placed in the talented and gifted classes.
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