Bill Gaskins's Blog

I just left Waccamaw Intermediate School at Pawleys Island. I met with two faculties to do a thirty minute presentation in fifteen minutes to share with them about the Proviso 1.25, SC Technology…

Enrichment class was a blast today. Actually the last two days have been great. The last two days they have been writing a folktale. They used word processing to start and finish their writing and…

Teachers at one of the elementary school where I work had to complete a proficiency level for their goals based evaluation. Their deadline for having this complete is next Friday. Therefore,…

Today our President announced his education plan but sounded like more of the same. It boils down to the teacher and what the teachers is doing. I heard more rhetoric of the same old and I was…

From the PEN Weekly News Blast on March 6, 2009

Not all schooling is equal. In too many schools, too many students suffer an education of drill and memorization but are deprived of high-level…

Thursday, my wife left to join several of her Converse College friends for a girl’s weekend at the beach. Friday, afternoon, I get two photos within a few minutes of each other on my Blackberry of…

I have gotten in a habit when working with students I start my workshop/presentation/lesson off with I think Kelly Gallagher coined as the Reader’s Moment. I take about 3-5 minutes and share…

From The Game of School by Robert Fried:

If we are fortunate enough to be raised in a home where love of learning is celebrated and modeled before our eyes, we may come to school well…

I have not written about the reading and writing enrichment class lately. I have intended to continue write about what is happening on a daily basis but time and other responsibilities took time…

From The Game of School by Robert Fried:

Little by little, grade by grade, we find our selves relating school more and more in a way that sharply contrasts with the energy, purposefulness, and…