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Once upon a time, I taught 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders. Now I’m retired and working on new ventures.
Author: amybisson
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School Committee Meeting, 15 June 2016 5 present, Mr. Gendron absent This meeting agenda was packed as the School Committee goes on summer meeting schedules (once each month, 3rd Wednesday) for July and August. After 3 1/2 hours, the Committee also went in to Executive Session for purposes of administrative salary/contract updates (principals, assistant superintendent,…
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In theory, I enjoy the idea of travel. In reality, I miss my “stuff”. And knowing precisely where everything is. There is nothing like 24 hours in airports and planes and a 6-hour time zone change to turn even the most Pollyanna-ish of us into raging maniacs of intolerance for humanity. And that is especially true…
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I was in the seventh grade when Miss Parker told me, “Donovan, we could put all your excess energy to good use.” And she introduced me to the sound of my own voice. In five minutes, Donovan Livingston the Student speaker at Harvard Graduate School of Education 2016 Convocation and Ed.M. candidate uses his voice…
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Subtitle: EdReformers Have Got It All Wrong Perhaps you have never heard of Sir Ken Robinson before today, but I guarantee that if you are willing to spend 20 minutes to play the TED-Ed video found here, he will become someone who you can’t forget. Sir Ken, educator, speaker, author and champion of creativity, nudges…
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School Committee Meeting, 18 May 2016 All present Between Tuesday’s City Council Meeting and Wednesday’s School Committee Meeting, Mayor Kennedy has done a yeoman’s job of navigating through some very highly charged Public Comment sessions. The agenda included a Public Hearing on Inter-District School Choice which quickly morphed into comment on Item 10, the Policy…
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Play – real, unstructured brain break time – is as important to a child’s learning as academic time. So why are school leaders and decision-makers so reluctant to let go and allow more recess? I cringe whenever I hear a school leader lecture that there isn’t enough time in a school day to increase play…
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Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, was the Commencement Speaker at U Cal Berkeley this past week. Ms. Sandberg also wrote the book Lean In which generated lots of controversy among women. (Full disclosure, I have not read it). Sheryl Sandberg has endured what is understandably the worst year of her life after her husband Dave Goldberg had…
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School Committee Public Budget Hearing, Part 2 11 May 2015 All members present. The Budget Hearing was taped for later broadcast. The originally proposed budget can be found on the LPS website here. Changed budget allocations will hopefully be published sooner rather than later because there were many, MANY changes as the budget numbers were…
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School Committee Public Budget Hearing 09 May 2015 [EDITED TO INCLUDE] LTC Taped the hearing and it can be found on this weblink. Click on May 9 videolink. All members present. The Budget Hearing was taped for later broadcast. The originally proposed budget can be found on the LPS website here. The Finance Department link…
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