Sunday, June 24, 2018

I Can't Remain Silent

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I Can’t Remain Silent By Jill Jenkins As an educator the fate of children is a responsibility I have always taken seriously...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Cultivating Healthy Faculties and Staff

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Cultivating Healthy Faculties and Staff by Jill Jenkins As a gardener, I understand the importance of balancing fertili...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

School Stinks

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School Stinks by Jill Jenkins I recently visited my former school to celebrate the retirement of two of my favorite people.  Wh...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Protecting Our Most Important Asset: Teachers

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Protecting Our Most Important Asset: Teachers By Jill Jenkins     A few years ago as the department chairman of the Language...
Friday, January 5, 2018

The Scam: Lower Expectations to Increase Graduation Rates and Lower Costs

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Recently I have been reading John Merrow's book Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education, a book with which I d...
Wednesday, January 3, 2018

How To Avoid Humiliation In Your Classroom

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     In a very successful writing prompt, students described the most embarrassing moment they or a peer had suffered during their years in...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

Helping Students With Learning Disabilites

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In 2010 my husband, Randy, went into Sudden Cardiac Arrest. Even though the paramedics and doctors were able to revive him, the six minutes...
Monday, September 11, 2017

Ten Books Without Fairy Princesses

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Ten Books Without Fairy Princesses By Jill Jenkins Many disenfranchised students become disenchanted by education when the literary...