Baltimore teacher starts a new blog
The Baltimore high school English teacher known as Epiphany in Baltimore has started a new blog dedicated solely to education issues. It's called "Humbly I tried to learn, more humbly did I teach: Dispatches from the Land of the Puzzle Palace." (The title comes from the Langston Hughes poem "Teacher.") He's ending the Epiphany in Baltimore blog, which addressed both his professional and personal lives. As far as I know, the new blog will be the only one of its kind in Baltimore: dedicated exclusively to the city schools from a teacher's perspective and updated regularly. Baltimore Diary, like EiB, is a mix of personal and professional; Voice for School Truth has great insights but doesn't post often.
I've also been enjoying the new parent blog Surviving the System lately. And I was sorry for the student blog News From Room 123 to end this spring when the student authors graduated.
If anybody has any other education blogs, local or national, to recommend as we update our blogroll this summer, drop me a line.
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Comments
... but the Puzzle Palace is in Ft. Meade.
Posted by: steegness | July 2, 2008 11:59 AM
Kind of sucks that you can't access the blog from a BCPSS computer because of the filter.
Posted by: mike | July 2, 2008 12:07 PM
Dear Sir/Madam, can anyone give me some advice to teach a student of mine who is really poor in Mathematics and Creative Writng. He has been promoted to standard 5 but I am afraid he might fail this year since he is really very weak in mathematics and fails to interprete a problem if the language of the problem is different than the one he did!
Anyone kind hearted can contact me via my mail address which is shapath_guha@hotmail.com or post in this blog.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Shapath
Posted by: Shapath | July 2, 2008 2:12 PM
The puzzle palace was what they called school headquarters on The Wire.
Posted by: a parent | July 4, 2008 6:03 PM
Foiled by basic cable again!
Posted by: steegness | July 7, 2008 11:44 AM
mike: very few blogs are accessible from a BCPSS computer because of the filtering software. They've basically killed anything from Typepad, Blogspot, Wordpress, whatever, as being "personal pages".
Likewise, anything that comes from a domain such as aol.com or verizon.net will get blocked. This is often a shame because a lot of times, teachers will post activities, share lesson plans, etc. but they're doing it from their homemade home pages which are blocked. In addition, many parents of disabled kids do a LOT of research on their child's condition and will share that information on the web. Again, it's blocked simply by virtue of an address that starts with "users.aol.com/".
MSNBC offered up this link a few days ago:
50 Must-Read Up and Coming Blogs by Teachers. It's unfortunate, but again many of them will not be accessible from BCPSS servers.
Posted by: Claude | July 14, 2008 8:16 AM
blah, blah, go home and read it; what other job lets you peruse blogs while at work? Oh, yeah, every other job I have ever had...
Posted by: ewin | September 21, 2008 10:03 PM