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The Tweens Read Book Festival in Houston.

Alan Sitomer — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:00:15 +0000

I am heading to Tweens Read Book Festival in Houston. This rodeo goes down on Saturday and though it’s my first time appearing there, I am entirely fired up.

How can you not love the celebration of kids reading books?

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The second mouse gets the cheese. A lesson for 49 other states.

Alan Sitomer — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:01:10 +0000

The idea of restraining an educator’s ability to interact with students was the subject of my blog post the other day. And yet, the more I think about it, the more I am befuddled by the incoherent nature of

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Sex Ed as Taught by Brigham Young University, a lesson for many of us.

Alan Sitomer — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:00:07 +0000

A stud college basketball player for a Division I program was kicked off the team a few days ago for having pre-marital sex.

It was consensual. It was admitted. It was also a violation of the BYU school honor code…

The Ten Rules of Being Human

Alan Sitomer — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:00:44 +0000

People hit me up with stuff all the time, from all kinds of different angles via email, in person, through snail mail (I’ve gotten bunches of letters from inmates in jail). Really, I never know what I am going to…

What is my school supposed to pay for? And what am I?

Alan Sitomer — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:00:28 +0000

Should teachers pay for their own lesson plans? Would teachers pay for their own lesson plans?

Even if they were only two bucks a pop?

Okay, on one hand, as teachers, we already pay for so many of our school…

Watch What You Tweet!!

Alan Sitomer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:22:12 +0000

So people are now being sued for libel based on the content of their tweets. And while the courts are struggling to keep up with technology — and how free speech plays out in evolving social networking mediums — there…

The Conundrum of Handling Student Farts

Alan Sitomer — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:30:17 +0000

So what is to be done when a student farts in class?

Hey, don’t laugh, this is a serious academic issue.

The way I see it, there are a coupla options.

1) Try to pretend it didn’t happen. Of course,…

Will Digital Textbooks Simply Replace Traditional Textbooks?

Alan Sitomer — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:30:36 +0000

Hmmm, will digital textbooks simply replace traditional textbooks so that the wheels of these entrenched, corporate behemoth money making machines just keep chugging right along?

Let’s look at 9th grade…

Why would I pay for Romeo and Juliet when the…