Geraint Wilton

Geraint Wilton, UK, Secondary, Tertiary, Design Technology

I am a long time teacher of Design Technology in UK schools with a conviction that it is all about the children and the teaching. I work in a small school near the tip of Cornwall with a great team of staff. I also work as a teacher trainer in a variety of ways, something I love doing.

Designfizzle
Regular posts on teaching and learning with an emphasis on design education and pedagogy.

Theme: design technology, teaching and learning, pedagogy, assessment for learning, curriculum, education policy, 21st century teaching

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Jenny Lewis

Jenny Lewis, USA, Secondary, English, Spanish, GT, SPED

I have worked as an Instructional Coach, English Teacher, Spanish Teacher, k-12, urban and rural schools. I currently teach HS English II, III, IV and College Comp and am the Gifted and Talented Program Coordinator.

Teaching to Understand
I started this blog out of frustration with the current focus on high-stakes testing. I want to share my thoughts on education, great links I find, and connect with like-minded educators and parents so we can "be the change we want to see in the world"

Theme: innovation, project-based, differentiated instruction, gifted and talented, parenting, engagement, critical thinking, education policy, english, spanish, gifted education

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Chris Casal

Chris Casal, USA, Primary, Education, Technology

I am a technology teacher/technology coordinator @ a K-5 public school within NYC Dept. of Education. I have been a computer teacher since 2003, a dotcom'er and broadcast producer before that.

I blog with my students and to get my own thoughts on technology, education, and the convergence of the two out of my own head...

The Casal Operating System
This blog is about my profession and how I view and shape the job I do and love, teaching; my experiences in the classroom, within the school, and general musings and observation regarding the educational field overall.

Everything I've done online to this point has been for my students. This is the first time I've created a space for me, about my craft.

This is what makes me tick. This is what makes me run. This is my operating system.

Class blog: Mr. Casal's Computer Lab

Theme: education, technology, educational technology, edtech, education policy, education politics

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Fernando Bolaños

Fernando Bolaños, Peru, Políticas, Política Educativa

Educador. Especialista en proyectos educativos.

Intriga Personal
Blog dedicado a comentar eventos pertinentes a la política educativa en Perú y otros países de América Latina, así como investigaciones y publicaciones relevantes sobre el tema.

Theme: política educativa, américa latina

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I Teach

I Teach, Malaysia, Primary, Secondary, Tertiary,

I'm an educator in my 30s with a firm belief in educational reform and that with the right policies in place, Malaysia can be a truly world-class education hub.

Textual Confessions
My observations and insights on the education scene in Malaysia.

Theme: education, education malaysia, educational reform, education policy, schools, universities

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Rethinkinged

Rethinkinged, China, All Sectors

PhD student.

rethinkinged
education administration and policy, education leadership.

Theme: education, administration, policy, leadership

Alistair Bomphray

Alistair Bomphray, USA, Secondary

Alistair taught English in public high schools for seven years and is currently studying Educational Policy at the University of Michigan. He self-published a survival guide for new teachers called Hey Teacher, You've Got Chalk on Your Pants: An Anti-Burnout, No-Holds-Barred Guide to the World's Most Important Profession.

Teacher, Revised
Real talk from real teachers: a place for teachers to reflect on their own classrooms and to wax poetic on what's new (or old) in the world of education.

Theme: education, teacher, new teacher, education policy, public schools, high school, united states, teacher reflection

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Chad Ratliff

Chad Ratliff, USA, K-12

Author Chad Ratliff, whom the Blue Ridge Business Journal recently featured as one of the region’s “Top 20 Under 40 Emerging Leaders”, holds an M.Ed. from the University of Virginia and is an M.B.A. Candidate at Virginia Tech. Ratliff spent nine years as an educator in a high-poverty, micropolitan high school in Southside Virginia.

While there, he launched several innovative programs, was honored numerous times as an educator and coach, and has presented on topics in the areas of understanding students from poverty and effective schools research and policy. Ratliff continues to advocate against the inequalities that exist in our public schools. He co-founded the Spencer Chang Scholarship Foundation and continues to serve as its president.

The Edurati Review - currently offline
Independent commentary and analysis of education policy and issues at the federal, state, and local levels.

Theme: education policy, education reform

Marie E. deYoung

Dr. Marie E. deYoung, USA, Pre K-12, Higher Education, Music and Education Policy

* Ed.D. U. Missouri-Columbia
* M.Div. Starr King School for the Ministry
* B. Music Theory U. Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music

Marie the Music Teacher
As an advocate for targeted funding, and pragmatic education reform, I will blog about persona experiences, and federal and state policies that have directly impacted the lives of teachers and students in high poverty rural and urban schools.

Theme: music education, NCLB, teacher certification, targeted education funding, academic achievement, education policy, rural schools, urban education

Nancy Flanagan

Nancy Flanagan, USA, Primary, Secondary

Nancy Flanagan is a 31-year teaching veteran (K-12 Music) who recently retired from Hartland (MI) Consolidated Schools, and is now pursuing a career as an education consultant, working on diverse projects around teacher leadership, education policy, mentoring new teachers and education blogging.

She was Michigan Teacher of the Year in 1993, a Danforth Teacher Leadership Fellow, and a featured teacher in the Annenberg/PBS Learning Classroom series. From 1994-2001, Nancy co-moderated the State Teacher of the Year online community for the U.S. Department of Education.

Nancy became a National Board Certified Teacher in 1998 (Early Adolescence Generalist) and worked for two years as a Teacher in Residence with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and as a consultant with the Michigan Education Association.

She co-created and taught a Web-based graduate teacher leadership course for Virginia Commonwealth University, and is an active member of the Teacher Leaders Network.

Teacher in a Strange Land - currently offline
A veteran teacher reflects on practice and policy in American schools. Inconsistencies, inspirations, the incomprehensible, immoral and imaginative in education

Theme: teacher leadership, teaching profession, teacher training, professional
development, public education, education policy, music, learning technology,
educational change, 21st century learning

Bill Ferriter

Bill Ferriter, USA, Middle School

Bill Ferriter teaches 6th grade language arts in Wake County, NC, where he was named Teacher of the Year for 2005-2006. He writes regularly about the effective use of technology in the classroom and is a passionate advocate for teacher leaders.

His work on policy issues connected to teacher working conditions, staffing high needs schools and creating alternative compensation models for educators is woven into the strands that form the foundation of his writing.

The Tempered Radical
The Tempered Radical is a blog designed to stimulate conversations about education. Written by a classroom teacher with broad policy and professional experience, The Tempered Radical is a source of provocative questions and stimulating conversation.

Theme: technology, education policy, school leadership, teacher leadership, pedagogy

Greg Cruey

Greg Cruey, USA, Elementary (preK-5), All Subjects

Greg Cruey is an educator and journalist. He works as an educational interventionist specializing in disabilities at a small, rural elementary school in Central Appalachia. But he has taught at grade levels from kindergarten to college. At the college level he has worked in financial aid, veterans counseling, grant writing, and English as a second language.

Greg is an Asia buff and avid China watcher who has lived on four continents and in 14 times zones.

As a journalist, Greg has been writing for publication for over 30 years. He was editor-in-chief of his college paper, has written for a couple of small rural weekly papers, and he has worked a beat for a daily paper.

Greg holds an M.S. in Education from Marshall University in Huntington, W.V. He did his undergraduate work in the social sciences at Augusta State University in Augusta, Ga. He studied counseling at University of the Nations in Kona, Hawaii, in a non-degree setting. He earned a graduate diploma in general linguistics (with merit) at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he also studied Chinese linguistic issues and the Indonesian language.

Greg has a profound interest in reading issues, particularly dyslexia. He is a member of the International Reading Association.

What exactly is an "educational interventionist?" It is a professional who intervenes when students fall significantly behind (or simply aren't "making it") in a classroom setting. The goal of that kind of intervention is to make it possible for students to continue learning with their peers in a normal classroom environment.

Greg is certified in special education (autism, learning disabilities, emotional & behavioral disorders, mentally impaired), early childhood education (preK-6), middle grades math (4-8), middle grades social studies (4-8), and reading (preK-adult).

The Green Cup
My take on educational policy and instructional issues for the public school realm in America.

There is a broad focus - No Child Left Behind, Individual with Disabilities Education Act (2004), testing, instructional issues and ideas, educational technology, the life experience of being a teacher, and much more.

Theme: special education, education policy, no child left behind, education news, reading, reading research

Sarah Weisz

Sarah Weisz, Illinois, USA, K-12, All Subjects

I taught 7th and 8th grade social studies and reading at a Chicago charter school. I've also run several service-learning initiatives. In 2005, I came to the Golden Apple Foundation to launch the Teaching Excellence Network, an online community for Illinois teachers. I added the blog in March 2007, and have been writing ever since.

Teaching Excellence Network
The TEN blog features education news, trends, and ideas to help teachers keep up-to-date with what's going on in the world of education.

Theme: k-12, professional community, online community, education reform, education policy

Stephanie Sandifer

Stephanie Sandifer, Texas, USA, K-12, Post-Secondary, Education Policy & Innovation

Professionally I am currently serving as a campus-based Literacy/Instructional Coach at an inner-city high school. I have experience teaching at the K-12 and college levels, and have served in the administrative roles of School Improvement Facilitator and Dean of Instruction at the high school level. I am very interested in exploring innovations in education and I firmly believe that the education system in the United States is in desperate need of complete reinvention if we hope to be able to collaborate globally to improve quality of life for citizens of every country.

I am particularly interested in classroom instructional issues, technology integration/infusion, distance education, and education leadership and policy issues. I have been blogging since March of 2006 and can no longer imagine being a professional educator/learner without an online personal learning network. I believe that my role as an educator demands that I be a learner first and that I model my learning for my students and my fellow educators.

Personally I enjoy spending time with family and friends, and I love being with my two newborn twins who have enriched my life dramatically in recent weeks. I strive for a healthy work/life balance that allows me to make a difference in the lives of others through my profession while also being the parent and partner that I need to be for my family.

Change Agency - currently offline
Change Agency covers professional topics in education, education reform & school improvement, technology integration, art education, professional development and leadership for 21st century education, web 2.0 in education, and a variety of other educational innovations.

Theme: school improvement, educational change, education innovation, edtech, instructional technology, web 2.0, art education