Bill Gaskins's Blog

Yesterday, I began my new job in Berkeley County School District in Monks Corner, SC as their Teaching American History Grant facilitator. A huge transformation from being a technology curriculum…

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The Invitational Summer Institute is in the third week at CCU. I am sitting in the back of the classroom listening to an awesome spotlight presentation by one of our…

Today I was reading a blog post by Bud Hunt. He is a teacher-consultant with the Colorado State University Writing Project and blogs regularly at http://budtheteacher.com. In his July 16th blog…

I am blogging the day at Coastal Carolina University in the second day of the open Institute of the Coastal Area Writing Project. We have writer and teacher Katie Wood Ray helping teaching us how to…

I spent the last four days in Lake Tahoe with some the greatest innovative people I have ever met. Around 30 national writing project teacher consultants gathered to create resources that we can go…

“the tendency of classrooms in high-poverty areas to focus on teacher-directed instruction with drill-and-practice being the primary activity of the learners. This learner-passive environment all…

In writing you have to honor the process not the final product. I think that is why I like the concept of blogging because I know deep down it is not a final product from my perspective. But I…

I found this video over at Dangerously Irrelevant… Very powerful

To Meet the Demands of a New Age from Steven H on Vimeo.

I have just finished reading the Interpreter, the  United Methodist Church (UMC) publication.  The recent issue expanded upon the them “What if we…Rethink Church?”. It focuses on the term Church…

During Spring break I decided to take a break from Blogging on the Bay. I have taken a break from reading over 50-60 blogs a day. I have not even looked at my RSS feed since Spring break. I keep…