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Comic strips, blogs, teaching ideas, and ideas about teaching.
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NEW Real Mr. Fitz Blog post: If I Am Wrong (opens the original)
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I have been teaching for nearly 35 years now. I always like to consider that I might be wrong about things. But as I consider whether I might be wrong about teaching and literacy and education, here is what occurs to me:If I am wrong, then treating students like data points is more important treating them like real, living, breathing, mysterious, complex, multifaceted human beings. If I am wrong, we must reduce them to a numbers can be ignored if they don't show signs of gains. If I am wrong, th
Mr. Fitz Flashback for 10-1: How Students Think Teachers Grade Them (#8)... (opens the original)
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Mr. Fitz Flashback for 9-29: How Students THINK teachers grade them (#6)... (opens the original)
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Mr. Fitz Flashback for 9-29: How Students THINK teachers grade them (#6)... (opens the original)
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NEW Mr. Fitz for 9-27: Data Chat with Dirth... (opens the original)
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<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="989" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z-Yt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2bfd34e8-5488-4377-a7dc-617d333a5d0a_1000x989.png"
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