AMLE Feature:

Interview with Dr. Kristina Doubet

“Dr. Kristina Doubet is an Associate Professor of Middle and Secondary Education at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. With over ten years of experience teaching middle and secondary English, she now prepares future middle and high school teachers for careers in the classroom. Dr Doubet completed her M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Virginia where she studied the impact of differentiated instruction on student performance in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. Her publications also focus on assessment and differentiated instruction and include AMLE’s, Smart in the Middle: Classrooms that Work for Bright Middle Schoolers (co-authored with Carol Tomlinson). Dr. Doubet works regularly with practicing teachers from all grade levels and content areas as a staff developer for schools/districts implementing initiatives in the areas of Common Core Standards, formative assessment and differentiated instruction.”

Dr. Doubet is cited here: Differentiation

You can get more of Dr. Doubet from Amazon.com.

Contact info: [email protected]

Some Resources:

https://daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com/file/view/doubet.pdf

Jokes You Can Use:

“The speed of time is one second per second.” - Monsieur Loach

Kulula Airlines. Real airplane. Real paint job. Real funny. :-)

On Our Mind:

Eileen Award:

Eric Huff

Scoopit:

Twitter: Todd Bloch, Jennifer McFarlane, #mschat, Deanna @ldgermany312, Brian Tonniges @BTonniges, Stephen Davis.

Facebook:

Google+: Ciera Robinson, Jennifer Fox,

iTunes:

eMail: Patti Kinney (NASSP), Dr. Monte Tatom,

Advisory:

Dollar Artist Sculptures

Challenge your students.

http://dollarartist.com/sculptures.html

SPARK YOUR FUTURE

Discover a career and find the right education.

http://www.insidejobs.com/

Who’s Reading What?

http://mashable.com/2012/08/26/reading-stats-infographic/

Middle School Science Minute

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or [email protected])

MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE MINUTE-MATH, SCIENCE AND THE NGSS

This podcast is based on the editorial column of Science Scope Magazine, September, 2012, published by the National Science Teachers Association. The editor of Science Scope is Inez Liftig. Her column is entitled, "Editor's Roundtable."

Her editorial focused on finding the common ground between math and science. She cited the commonalities between the eight Practices of Science and Engineering, from the Next Generation Science Standards and the eight Practices of Mathematics outlined in the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.

From the Twitterverse:

Resources:

TimeMaps

http://www.timemaps.com/

myHistro

http://www.myhistro.com/

The Parent Rap

A little fun for teachers who are parents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N_NspDWssIY#!

For Those Who Want to Lead, Read

ISTE:

Combining Social Studies and Language Arts

Sandra Wozniak

Share Resources: livebinders.com and search: ISTE 2012

tregoED

Limits to Time on Task

http://www.joebower.org/2012/08/limits-of-time-on-task.html

Web Spotlight:

Teacher’s Ultimate Digital Kit

Online PD for teachers who are learning to teach with technology. There’s a great one on using QR codes in the classroom . . .

Events & Happenings: