Stephen Davenport will be signing copies of Saving Miss Oliver’s at Knit One One Studio arts and crafts fair on Saturday, October 24 from 10 t0 4. 3360 Adeline Street, Berkeley, Ca 94603. http://knitone.com/blog/html
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saving miss oliver’s as a case study for school leadewrs
October 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
This summer Steve Davenport, author of “Saving Miss Oliver’s, led two workshops for school leaders of The Florida Council of Independent Schools. Participants “solved” three case studies involving characters in the novel, by answering the question: what would you decide to do in this situation? The workshops were a rich, provocative experience because the participants [...]
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Letter to the Editor NY Times 6/9/09
June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Education reform, Teaching, Uncategorized
Isn’t it amazing that a whole range of professional and business people, some in thier first year of employment, can earn more than the people who taught them how to read, write, compute and think?
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Letter to the Editor
March 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Our faith in standardized testing is naive.
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The Key to Economic Recovery: Education
March 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Teaching, Uncategorized
“We can no longer afford to accept a culture in which a kid one day out of law school makes more that the person who taught him how to read – anymore than we can accept a culture in which a mediocre teacher gets re-hired year after year.
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A SAD AND INSTRUCTIVE STORY ABOUT THE BEST TEACHER I HAVE EVER KNOWN
March 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Teaching, Uncategorized
“He shows every sign of a person who has stayed in the same position too long.”
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