11.9.09 - Harry Wong - We said Griselda has to lock her classroom door at lunchtime. And you can only guess why, right? Wrong!
8.3.09 - by Harry & Rosemary Wong - Now in her sixth year of teaching, Melissa Dunbar has helped her students achieve a pass rate of between 92%–99% over the years, with her ESL and Economically Disadvantaged students
by Harry & Rosemary Wong
Brand new teacher, Nile Wilson, started the orchestra program at a new high school. Today, four years later, she has a full varsity orchestra, beginner/intermediate, freshman, junior varsity orchestra and a cello choir. How did she do it? Organization with procedures for just about every classroom activity.
by Harry & Rosemary Wong
Congratulations to Alex Kajitani, selected California Teacher of the Year, and the state’s nominee for the National Teacher of the Year competition to be announced in Spring, 2009. You’ll remember Alex as “The Rappin’ Mathematician†we featured in last December’s teachers.net article.
by Harry & Rosemary WongÂ
“Welcome to the world and to our special community in Boaz, Alabama!†greets every newborn delivered in this unique city. Before Baby has left the hospital, a county health official delivers a gift from the Boaz City School System to the newborn and the parents.
by Harry & Rosemary Wong
“I had been a teacher for exactly three weeks and never felt so ineffective and totally out of control in my life,†wrote Stacy Hennessee, a first-year lateral entry teacher who had spent only three weeks teaching Business Education/Computer Technology as this story begins.
by Harry & Rosemary Wong
And even more amazing are his students. Click here to see and hear a wonderful class perform for yourself! We know that no school-age child is too young to learn and follow procedures. When you establish procedures and routines early in the school year, you free up the rest of the year for teaching and learning in the content areas.
by Harry & Rosemary Wong
New teacher attrition would disappear and student achievement would sky rocket! In Arizona, where 25 percent of the population is Latino, many schools have low achievement and low graduation rates; yet there are schools performing well enough to beat the national test-score odds.
Harry and Rosemary Wong
Coaching is six times more effective than class-size reduction. Importance of Academic Coaches
Baseball season and Spring Training are upon us. A major league baseball team signed Bill Carpenter, now a retired elementary school principal, when he graduated from high school. At training camp, he recalls, the camp was crawling with coaches.
by Harry and Rosemary Wong
Meet Alex Kajitani, the 2007 Middle School Math Teacher of the Year for Greater San Diego. Alex teaches in Escondido, California. His middle school is in a primarily Latino neighborhood, and is one of the lowest-performing schools in the district in one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the state.
