Tutorpedia

The Tutorpedia Foundation is a Bay Area nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide exceptional personalized tutoring to students who could not otherwise afford it. We are looking for a capable intern who could join us for two weeks in January of 2010...

It's important that in whatever work we do, we find purpose. If your work is running a business, your purpose is to grow the business - but you have the choice of steady growth or fast growth, and of course how to grow...

In a recent blog post, Joanne Jacobs credited success in closing the achievement gap to the "do whatever it takes" attitude. If teachers are willing to do whatever it takes, then this is certainly a potent solution to education's ills...

I first saw this video late last year. We watched it again at one of our curriculum development days back in September. It has been a part of the internet for a few years now and the facts it presents never ceases to amaze me...

Two teachers are better than one. This past week, my eighth grade students were at a class retreat called Caritas so I had the great opportunity of sharing the lower grade classes with Sra. Zapata, who usually teaches the grades by herself...

Many of us have heard of Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Just as many of us think of MI as a justification for classrooms that accommodate many sensory modalities and provide multiple entry points for learning to take place. And why not...

This past week I tried something completely different. It was an extra-short week due to the Thanksgiving Holiday but since my students and I had two days to learn Spanish, I decided to test their auditory skills by screening a video...

I've been meaning to post for weeks now, but the confluence of launching Tutorpedia Southland (we now have tutors in Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Orange County) and getting the Tutorpedia Foundation off the ground has put my blogging on the back-burner...

This first trimester is finally over. I had my first successful grading period as I managed to collect all missing assignments and deal with the first round of grade discussions with students. I'm fairly sure that once the actual report cards are distributed, many of these discussions will continue...

All teachers want their students to listen to them. The whole enterprise of teaching really doesn't work unless students are listening to their teachers, and teachers have developed varied methods of capturing students' attention...

I've written before about the tedious task of grading and as the first trimester comes to an end, I wish the whole process could just magically complete itself...