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I want to introduce what will be our final on stage panel for today. gg is a online teacher runned school, and matt presser is here, one of the education nation.com essay winners, and i am going to read before we are done here, some of your work. so who leads you? >> who leads us? well, we are led, actually through our own work as professionals and our parents and students, and we take all that information and put it together to develop all of the decisions in our school. our staff, we have sigh...

I tell this story of every gathering of educators, and i will tell it again when we have a poverty panel later this week. several of our presidents have been teachers, and one of them named lyndon johnson, he was a teacher in one-room schoolhouse in texas, and because he was so horrified with kids coming in with dau stended bellies because of hunger, and he said if he had anything to do about it, we would have a national program, to feed students when they arrive at school and thats why its in p...

Row rows and face one type of media in front of the room. children without the means dont come into the classroom with the electronics-based life, and sometimes the classroom is the only place they are exposed, including your classroom in nevada. tell us about it. >> i lucked out. we had 30 of the original i-book computers when they first came out with fire wire, and they would go wireless. and we had those computers for a while and they got checked out throughout the school but then we got a ne...

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Head showed up on the laptop the same size as all the other kids heads, and she could hear and see, and she would raise her hand to ask a question or answer a question, and if we were doing cooperative learning of some kind, we would hurl that around and the kids would talk to her, and the sister would come to school and we would send books home, and anything that we did like that was reason to write on our blogs. within two weeks of the first day we did that, we produced a five-minute video on ...

Throughout the day. and then we have done -- we have been part of huge projects that have been mind blowing. the one i have been best known for is the one that fell in my lap. at my school if you are called down to the office 15 minutes before school starts, you know you are getting a new student. i was not supposed to get a new students because i had three more students than both of the fourth grades, and the second tells me you are getting a new student but dont worry because you will never se...

Education courses as great as they are, they dont prepare you as well as you should be for the challenge that you face in the classroom as a new teacher. and that did take me, you know, off guard, but it -- having a charter school behind me that supported me, it made things a lot easier, you know, professional development, and in the field training, it made things training. >> thank you so much, spencer. there were a lot of heads nodding on some of the obstacles you and the panel was discussing....

Later on. rehema ellis is in the area, and things are streaming behind her, all of it clean, and we have not touched the incoming data. what do they have to say? >> we have gotten over 1,900 comments of people sending in comments to education nation. lets take a look at this. people talking about student preparedness. one said ae almost nate standardized tests and specialization. help kids learn to think and question. thats just one comment, which obviously generates a response. perhaps we could...

Charlottesville, west, and john crosby, teaching 30 years himself in sparks, november. we will turn our attention to this subject, and look at it through the eyes of both of these gentlemen, and we will hear what the folks in our audience have to say. we have two microphones set up, and we have already seen there is no shortage of opinion in this room. what is your story? its kind of legendary among educators who have seen it. what did you choose to do? you said when you first became a teacher y...

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