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I was curious if there was really "only one" educator on the governor's council like we were informed today, because that alarmed me.. I see differently. Just think we should be careful what we assume to be true without investigating :) These sound like quality voters to me! I think Lindsay said there was only one classroom teacher on the council and the rest were administrators or faculty from the university. I don't think she meant to say those who were on the council were not "good" people, she was just hoping to have more of a voice from the classroom teachers who will be impacted the most by any evaluation. But I appreciate you checking this out and you are so right that we should validate what we hear. thanks for posting!!!! Deborah Ball is a key mathematics educator so I am glad she is on the council.

[] "The Council has five voting members, three of whom were appointed by Governor Snyder, and one each by Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville and Speaker of the House Jase Bolger. In addition to Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Governor Snyder appointed Mark Reckase from Michigan State University's College of Education and Nick Sheltrown from National Heritage Academics in Grand Rapids. Majority Leader Richardville appointed David Vensel, a principal from Jefferson High School in Monroe, and Speaker Bolger appointed Jennifer Hammond, a principal from Grand Blanc High School. Joseph Martineau serves on the Council as a non-voting member and is the designee of the Superintendent of Public Instruction."

Exxon Mobil's commercial for helping the United States catch up to other countries in mathematics and science http://youtu.be/cfGHDvBvI6g

Working with "twice exceptional" students: [|Twice exceptional]

Blogs from teachers regarding teaching with technology [|Teaching with Tech]

Publishers are already providing "Common core" materials that you can "trust". [|Common Core Catalog]

Cool video to watch [|Escher Video]

Is there a crisis?? Read the article and see what you think. [|Classroom crisis???]

Check out this article regarding digital textbooks from Apple. [|Digital texts]

I watched that video, then I looked for it on YouTube, and ended up watching the entire keynote Apple had released talking about it. This is really awesome! The only thing that I am thinking that may be a problem is that the schools will not want to buy these really nice iPads unless they are going to be able to keep them at the school. We all know that it is best to take your textbook home. I know from tutoring at Kalamazoo Central that the students are not able to take their textbooks home, which really just sucks... So, if these schools __do__ end up getting these iPads, are they going to keep them at the school just as they keep their textbooks at the school? If students are able to get an iPad and get the inexpensive textbooks from the App Store, what will happen to the students who cannot afford the iPad?

I think that WMU should put some books on here so that I can grab myself some $15 textbooks. It would save me a ton of money AND I can keep the textbook once I buy it. HOW COOL IS THAT?!? **(Ryan Sherman) Pretty cool. Dr B **

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Math Counts Competition Check out the link below. [|Middle school students make videos]

That's an awesome video! haha! Would be a fun project to assign a class to do!~Katie