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MIDDLE SCHOOL BLOGS
Many educators who want to follow certain blogs on a regular basis are using handy ditigal tools to simplify the process. See this guide to RSS feeders at the Common Craft website (especially recommended for visual learners!). Lots of folks use Google Reader. ALSO SEE this helpful article at About.Com. And this very educator-friendly four-part series on RSS at the K12 Online Conference website.
Larry Ferlazzo's Resources of the Day
Lessons Learned in the Middle (MS principal Tom Saunders)
Mr. McClung's Sixth Grade World (Missouri)
Mr. Wiemer's Shop (Iowan Galyn Wiemers teaches 21stC shop, Gr. 6-8)
Teaching the Outsiders, Mark Coward, 7th grade English
Cossondra George, 7th grade math/SS, Newberry MS, Newberry, MI
Hannah's Monarchs, middle grades social studies, New Jersey
Ms. Teacher, Language Arts/GATE, California
The Tween Teacher, Heather Wolpert-Gawron, California
The Dream Teacher, Cindi Rigsbee, middle grades, North Carolina
On the Shoulders of Giants, Ariel Sacks, 8th Grade English, Brooklyn NY
it's a hardknock teacher's life (Spanish)
The Blurb (Sixth grade social studies)
The Tempered Radical, Bill Ferriter, 6th grade, Wake County, NC
A Place at the Table, Susan Graham, FACS teacher, Virginia
Living in Dialogue, Anthony Cody, middle grades science coach, Oakland CA
In the Middle, Hanne Denney, special education
Marsha Ratzel, middle grades science/math teacher, Overland Park, KS
The Jose Vilson, math, Lower East Side, NYC
Professional Blog - Middle School Team (Raleigh NC)
Jeanne Simpson, middle grades math, Decatur, AL
Alayne Armstrong, Vancouver BC, Canada
Bill Ivey, Stoneleigh-Burnham School, Greenfield, MA
My Life in the T.F.A. Trenches (5th grade)
The
Good Habits Blog (Eric MacKnight)
ALSO OF INTEREST
Teacher Magazine's BlogBoard highlights teacher blog entries from across the spectrum!
You can search Technorati for middle school-oriented blogs
The Teacher Leaders Network Teacher Voices blog features comments and book reviews by middle grades educators.
IF YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE YOUR BLOG on this page, write us!
The Middle School Diaries index page (list of entries, by diarist, for the 2002-03 school year)
The Middle School Diary Archives (previous years)
The
First-Year Principal's
Rules of Survival
In her
final diary for 2000-01, middle grades principal Kristi Kahl shared some
valuable lessons she learned as a first-year administrator.
Fab
Friday at Freeport Middle
In
this 2001-02 diary entry, Principal Chris Toy tells us about his school's
thrice-yearly enrichment program.
