21 Jun 2012
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TEACHBAD BANNED FROM COMPETITION!!!

Dear Read­ers– As you may know, I was asked to par­tic­i­pate in an edu­ca­tion blog com­pe­ti­tion hosted by the Cal­i­for­nia Casu­alty Man­age­ment Com­pany (Cal­cas). A very nice woman there named Abbye found my blog and selected it as an entry. As of this morn­ing, we were hand­ily lead­ing in vote totals, thanks to you. As of a lit­tle later this morn­ing, my blog was removed and elim­i­nated from the com­pe­ti­tion. I know what you’re think­ing: Steroids. Not this time. It turns out that the higher ups in Read more […]
13 Jun 2012
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VOTE for Teachbad and HELP SMART KIDS!!

Hello, Read­ers. I have been hon­ored to be asked to par­tic­i­pate in the Cal­i­for­nia Casu­alty Man­age­ment Company’s best edu­ca­tion blog com­pe­ti­tion. CCMC is an insur­ance com­pany serv­ing teach­ers, nurses, fire­fight­ers and cops. My par­tic­i­pa­tion in this com­pe­ti­tion in no way con­sti­tutes an endorse­ment of the State of Cal­i­for­nia. Nor should it be con­strued as an endorse­ment of CCMC, their ser­vices, prod­ucts, or ethics; of which I have stu­diously learned noth­ing. OK? If I win this com­pe­ti­tion, $200 Read more […]
07 Jun 2012
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YIPPEE! IT’s ALMOST OVER!!! (Treat yourself)

  Mr. Teach­bad is proud to announce the release of two brand new Teach­bad cof­fee cups and an enor­mous YIPPEE!! IT’s ALMOST OVER!!! sale on ALL Teach­bad Prod­ucts in the Teacher Porn Store!! Even the new stuff. All items in the Teach­bad cat­a­log are now on sale until July! The long-awaited results of the choose your cof­fee cup design sur­vey are in. Teach­bad read­ers were almost evenly split between the two designs, giv­ing a slight edge to the Sup­port Teach­ers design. But the Stick People Read more […]
06 Jun 2012
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Fixing the Dropout Crisis, Part I

Last night I attended a Teacher Town Hall on the dropout cri­sis in Wash­ing­ton, DC. It was hosted by Howard Uni­ver­sity Tele­vi­sion (WHUT) and WAMU, our local pub­lic radio sta­tion. All in all, it was a lit­tle under­whelm­ing. In addi­tion, my quest for inter­na­tional super­star­dom was again thwarted. I had signed up to attend and indi­cated that I was not cur­rently a class­room teacher when I did so. When I got there I was not admit­ted because I was not cur­rently a teacher. Because they didn’t fill up all Read more […]
29 May 2012
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When Tuesday is Monday

I was dri­ving home with my fam­ily last night. We were on our way back from the last big fun activ­ity in a long Memo­r­ial Day week­end full of them. My wife’s mood sud­denly dark­ened as she remem­bered that it was Mon­day night and she was going back to work in the morn­ing. Mil­lions of Amer­i­cans were expe­ri­enc­ing this same real­iza­tion and mood shift at about the same time. Then I sud­denly remem­bered how much more intense and dread­ful and pan­icky that feel­ing was when I was a teacher. A wave of it came Read more […]
25 May 2012
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A Serious Choice

I need help. Closely exam­ine the two images below and vote. Which of these orig­i­nal Teach­bad designs would you rather see on a cof­fee mug some­time in the near future? Have a very Happy Memo­r­ial Day. You deserve it. Smell that sweet June air right around the cor­ner… Teach­bad ps — If you haven’t already, please respond to the One Ques­tion Teacher Annoy­ance Sur­vey. Results will be tal­lied next week. pss — You should also get on the mail­ing list, fol­low me on Twit­ter and Read more […]
22 May 2012
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Seriously, Teachers, You’re Being WAY Too Difficult

Look­ing back it’s clear to see how Dr. Todd Whitaker’s man­age­ment tech­niques were used at my school. I’ll illus­trate a cou­ple of exam­ples and I encour­age you to send in your own. Recall the last post in which Dr. Whitaker’s path-breaking book Deal­ing With Dif­fi­cult Teach­ers was viciously skew­ered in an even­handed review. Dr. Whitaker encour­ages prin­ci­pals to use mis­di­rec­tion and dis-ingenuousness in their treat­ment of the vile sub­hu­mans they have deemed dif­fi­cult teach­ers. Many read­ers think it Read more […]
17 May 2012
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Dear Teachers: Please Stop Being So Difficult

There is a ter­ri­ble lit­tle book called Deal­ing With Dif­fi­cult Teach­ers (2002) by Todd Whitaker. I’d been curi­ous about this book since I saw it on my assis­tant principal’s Ama­zon wish list three years ago. I finally read it this week. It was even worse than I had imag­ined, both in terms of ideas and prose. So, let’s get started! What do you do with a dif­fi­cult teacher? And what is a dif­fi­cult teacher any­way? Dif­fi­cult teach­ers are defined entirely by how the prin­ci­pal feels about Read more […]
10 May 2012
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Teacher Annoyance Survey: One Question

There are two dis­tinct cat­e­gories of adverse job con­di­tions in teach­in
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