This is the first of what will be a continuing series of letters that two award-winning principals with differing views on the Core will write to each other (a concept that Education Week once used with Diane Ravitch and Deborah Meier as the authors).
Nevertheless, they keep in touch, writing letters to each other and using Quinn (Rip Torn), the grizzled owner of a New York pool hall, as a go-between.
(Personal bias alert: One of the authors of this post used to write for Daulerio, while the other used to write for Thomas).
The plays are not cast in aspic, but were written to be used by other creative minds – directors, designers and actors.
The users manual was written to walk other people through the process of using the data logger.
We used to write letters to each other and now we correspond through Facebook and Twitter and other forms of communication.
I notice a few blank stares — evidence of the generation gap — so let me explain: the stacks contained books, which people used to write, and other people used to read, before Google Scholar was created.
In the 1990s we used to write each other letters.
Instead of repeating the clause "Alex price strategy" in the following one, Nura writes "the other strategy", using the reference word "other" in order to link this clause with the previous one, thereby making her text more cohesive.
These interviews show, as expected, that some instructors use these materials more or less as written and others use them piecemeal, usually as additional examples of topics they are teaching.
Some people have their lists written down, others use their smartphones or iPads, and others keep the list running in their heads.
