First two weeks of school

are finished. Since I wrote my first post on this blog back in June, I've been poking around the education scene. There are certainly quite a few teachers out there with really good web sites and ways to keep parents updated on what the kids are doing in school, but I think the higher the grade, the more the teachers are willing to expend that sort of effort, and now that the school year's started, some of the teachers I've read most faithfully haven't written any articles for a while. Here's some of the ones I've been reading:

• think: lab - Christian Long is both an educator and a parent
• Dangerously Irrelevant - Dr. Scott Mcleod is not currently a teacher a college professor rather than a K12 teacher, but he always has interesting articles.
• Do I Dare Disturb The Universe? - Scott Elias is a high school administrator and doctoral student
• dy/dan - Fascinating blog of a really innovative math teacher
• Cool Cat Teacher - Teacher and techie

And others, with various levels of posting frequency and relevance to a kindergartener parent.

My apologies to Kevin Makice, who left a couple of comments here over the summer, which I completely ignored, because blush I forgot to turn on email notification of comments for this blog. It's on now, so no further comments will be ignored! But I suspect we won't be hearing much from the Makices, for if I have correctly followed their eddies in my stream of information, they have decided to pursue alternatives to public schooling. I agree with your comment, Kevin, that parents are encouraged to get involved, but only in prescribed ways. We have been told who our PTO officers are; what the schedule of meetings are; what we can volunteer for; and how we can help out with fundraising. Lots and lots of fundraising. Still, we haven't gone to a PTO meeting yet. We're still getting our feet wet. We'll see what happens.