tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72733002024-03-07T16:43:11.276-08:00Educational WhisperThere is a big difference between an equal opportunity for education and an equal opportunity for an equal education
***Commercial free since 2004 - All images and text copyright - Windspike, 2004-presentAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.comBlogger2762125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-27237115128316704992014-11-27T10:55:00.001-08:002014-11-27T10:55:20.639-08:00Almost Distracted by the Siren Call of 4 Wonen Hammering the Trails in Full Cyclocross kits - Thanksgiving Count is Big This Year is 83Regular readers, well, if there were regular posts there might be regular readers, of this blog know that every that every Thanksgiving, I run my traditional route through the Park. Along the way, not sure when I started this, I count the number of homeless folk spread out along the way. This is a very imprecise measure of how well we are doing as a society; how we treat those less Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-37105587054301637492014-04-05T14:06:00.000-07:002014-04-05T14:12:39.603-07:00After the Fracture (a supposed song I wrote a long time ago)I'd like to sing this song
But you're not here with me
Don't know what to do
But it might be destiny
How do I get you closer
To play with me?
It don't sound so good
With out you in proximity
Chorus:
I'm not living without you
I'm not breathing without you
I'm not loving without you
Doesn't feel so good
Hugging my pillow
And its really cold
Never feels all that good
Without you in the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-62123954143851471742014-03-22T17:27:00.000-07:002014-04-05T14:06:38.341-07:00Experience: An Anthology - Original Works by Aaron Anderson copyrighted June 1992
I'm pretty sure that if there was such a thing as blogging back in 1992, I would have put these poems on line some where. Found these going back through an old box this afternoon. Best for sharing by making them electronic.
Bear in mind, I was a lot younger then (we all were, of course). But this should get you a sense of what I was writing back then.
I'm pretty sure that if there was such a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-59851621257959807562013-11-28T14:17:00.001-08:002013-11-28T14:17:12.401-08:00This Thanksgiving it was 48 & a Couple Dozen Hells Angels This morning's Thanksgiving run started a beautiful morning. Near 8 AM and the sunny temps just a smidge above 50 degrees. The route; the usual. The mission: to informally assess the state of the homeless situation & see if there are any improvements by running about Golden Gate park and counting. Turns out, not so much. This is a non-scientific assessment, but from my view it
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-23050704858231046892013-10-11T10:23:00.001-07:002013-10-11T10:30:09.319-07:00Duration of a Course is the Wrong Question When You Want To Measure The ROI of any given Pedagogy
Most of the time, the character limits on social media are a boon to creativity, but occasionally a post spurs a longer thought. This is my response to this post on shortening the duration of course offerings.
Pedagogically, I'm a fan of a traditional semester which allows ample time for complex ideas to steep in the brain. There's room for making mistakes & recovery in a safeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-29396352893020123922012-11-22T11:35:00.000-08:002012-11-22T11:35:36.447-08:0073 as far as the eye can see: Annual Thanksgiving run and homelessness countThis morning was a brilliant day for running. Just a smidge above 50 degrees. Sun shining, and what seemed like an endless stream of other runners out putting on the miles earning the calories they will ingest later in the day.
As always, I did the same route I have done just about every Thanksgiving I've trod for I can't remember how many years when I started this annual tradition. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-71083330468966731122012-09-11T15:52:00.001-07:002012-09-11T16:07:24.156-07:00Press Release: Parents Urge Californians to Protect Public Education And Vote "Yes on Prop 30 & Yes on Prop 38!"
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Press Release:
Parents Urge Californians to Protect Public Education And Vote "Yes on Prop 30 & Yes on Prop 38!"
Educate Our State, a parent-led grassroots
education advocacy group, mobilizes its 45,000 supporters in order to protect
education funding on the November ballot. The group is endorsing both Prop 30
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-16624175792970658932012-08-07T21:14:00.000-07:002012-08-07T22:22:04.691-07:00Join Educate our State for Camp Educate: A summer day camp for adults who care about the future of our great state
I
haven't written in a while, but I though that I would appeal to you because our public education system is on the verge of collapse and
we all have a vested stake in the future of our Great State. Think of
it this way. With a budget that hinges on the likelihood that voters will approve one of two tax increases this November, how do you suppose we are able fund public education Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-39958384542394004832012-05-24T10:46:00.003-07:002012-06-01T17:25:00.301-07:00School Vouchers Are A Trojan HorseA friend sent around an article suggesting that Mitt Romney is
trying to ride in on a white horse as the knight anointed to save our public schools and reverse the fiscal malaise facing them. I got off on a
rant, and here's my response to the article.
Any
time some one suggests we hand every one a coupon or voucher so
that they can "spend" their education dollars wherever they want, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-77704242404204007862012-05-09T12:29:00.000-07:002012-05-09T12:30:57.732-07:00It's Time for the People To Lead & Tell Our Elected Legislators to "Stop Clowning Around" with public school funding
In
advance of tonight's School Site Council (SSC) and tomorrow's PTA
meetings where many of us will be discussing the grim fiscal situation
facing our wonderful school, we stand together lucky in that we are able
to raise funds to support the values and programs we have grown to
enjoy over the years. Unfortunately, even as schools in the SFUSD are suffering, across the State we have aAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-46227496189967599822012-04-19T10:12:00.001-07:002012-04-19T10:13:24.867-07:00If you are not a member already, It's time to joing the San Francisco Bicycle CoalitionI've been a member of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition for a great long time. They handle a great many of the very cool improvements across the city related to making the city safer for all manner of cyclists, and are on a mission to make it safe for every one ages 8 to 80 to ride a bike across the whole city. If you are not a member, please join up. I know you won't regret it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-8494657044576780492012-04-18T14:25:00.006-07:002012-04-18T15:20:28.400-07:00Take the Sting Out of Education Funding Cuts - Make it go viral request email templateThis is the text of the email I just drafted & sent off to the entire parent population at our school. You should feel free to borrow any and all of it to push out to your people as well. The aim is to make the video go viral.
Please do comment below when you use the material. Then come back to let us know how the email worked.
Dear All,
Most of you are gravely familiar with the dismal Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-72222470497778401192012-03-13T21:23:00.001-07:002012-03-16T21:31:35.466-07:00This Budget Blows: But We Can Do Something About itHaving served a couple of years a while back as the McKinley Elementary PTA president was a rewarding and eye opening experience. While the fund raising skills of the McKinley community remain strong and lever forward every year toward new heights, unfortunately, the budget malady affecting our wonderful school metastasizes across the SFUSD and our State in what seems to me to be a clear Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-6123529565903159912011-09-22T13:43:00.000-07:002011-09-22T13:44:09.372-07:00Press Release: Camp Educate, November 11-13, 2011 Produced by Educate our StatePress Release
Fed Up parents “camp out” for better schools
San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA – September 21, 2011– Outraged with a system that is failing their kids, parents are “camping out” and training themselves to better advocate for California public schools.
Now that their kids have headed back to school, the grassroots, parent-led group, Educate our State, plans to send their Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-8143573605125226052011-06-04T11:57:00.000-07:002011-06-04T12:19:30.045-07:00Educational Myths & Assorted Rambling SolutionsOne of my pet peeves is the continued propagation of myths about education and the enterprise that provides educational opportunities that misguide us toward solutions that, while well meaning, are based on false assumptions. The danger here is that truth is a slave to perception; not vice versa.
Even more precarious is designing solutions for problems defined by these perceptions. Most of allAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-22945474258785409732011-05-11T17:00:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:33:06.723-07:00What Happens When Educational Reform Needs Reform?I hate the word "reform." It really doesn't go to the heart of what education in America needs - a complete overhaul of the basic architecture as what we have built upon was laid in the mid-nineteenth century. The 21st century is substantially different.
The reality is that technology is there; education and learning can be completely customizable. However, the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-90513272198530054382011-03-25T15:54:00.000-07:002011-03-25T15:54:55.166-07:00Assignment Processes Which Are Inherently Unfair Prove That We Have Disparity Among Our SchoolsI read this guest post over at Rachael Norton's blog, and had to respond. I'm parking my response here as it's awaiting moderation, and I don't know it will be published. Time will tell.
This question goes direct to the very troubling concern that we, even though it has been an ambition for a great long while, have proof and ongoing longitudinal evidence that there is a serious difference Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-69541881890501951902011-03-09T09:58:00.000-08:002011-03-09T10:08:27.023-08:00It's Time To Double Down on Public EducationThose of you who have not been paying attention to the really awful budget situation in the Great State of California, may not know that even the best case scenario means a nasty multi-million dollar cut to public education.
When the children of California become caught in a nasty political squeeze play that has shaped the American political landscape over the last decade, you know that politicsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-74721609117375526872010-11-26T12:09:00.000-08:002010-11-26T12:09:35.327-08:00Reindeer, 2.5 Doz. Hell's Angels, and a Mitt full of Chinese Badminton PlayersThanksgiving's traditional morning run yesterday was on the chilly side, but bright and sunny. Typically, I've been counting homeless folk on this day as a very informal measure of how we are doing on the home front in comparison to all the other social endeavors such as the multi-billion a day habits we have in Iraq and Afghanistan. This year the count promised to be rather different, but in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-6406738738520917202010-09-03T10:49:00.000-07:002010-09-03T10:53:27.422-07:00An open letter to SFUSD Superintendent Carlos GarciaDear Superintendent Garcia,
I was going to copy your Associate, but I seem to have misplaced his card and I would appreciate it if you could forward this email to him. While I had a chance to talk with him at the tail end of the meeting, I had to leave to go over to Everett for the session there before talking with you.
First, thank you for taking your time to meet with the Second District PTAAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-6958162422506845532010-05-04T10:43:00.001-07:002010-05-04T10:46:28.441-07:00When You Click On The Porn, Best Not To Do It While The Cameras Are Rolling On The Florida Senate FloorFound this from my slash/dot rss feed:
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-47246751512697402782010-04-27T14:39:00.000-07:002010-04-27T14:39:35.576-07:00Joke From The Internet: "Who's Really Lost?"A friend forwarded this joke from some where:
Lost A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him,
"Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-74074863184331836852010-03-20T15:26:00.000-07:002010-03-20T16:45:28.880-07:00A New Promise For American Children: An Open Letter To Those Controlling Budgets For Public SchoolsToday's pubic education funding calamity was long in the making by us, and our collective governments (local, state, and national). Yet, even in light of an overly exuberant push to bail out failing banks & other companies with copious taxpayer dollars, we appear fully ready to accept this crisis in education funding as if it is a done deal. It doesn't have to end with the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-33305642579628883242010-03-08T15:53:00.001-08:002010-03-08T15:53:57.025-08:00Whoo Hoo - over 100K page views!Out of curiousity, I hit my site meter today. Found out I've got over 100K page views.
Total 100,195
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Average Per Visit 1.2
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This Week 98Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273300.post-9177011929678817822010-03-08T15:50:00.000-08:002010-03-08T15:50:11.019-08:00Don't Misunderestimate Me (an original poem by moi)As our little Miss Muffet
Sat astride her tuffet
snarfing her strudel
sipping Cabernet
I, the decider
Sat down beside her
Asking favors &
Could she come out to play
Wryly, Muffet replied
What I've spied
Is a government that lied
Misunderestimating me all the wayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175864473859312508noreply@blogger.com0