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Being a Physics Teacher and Father: The Story of Jeffrey Wright

Posted on January 5, 2013 by ivonprefontaine

Reblogged from Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:

The following article and YouTube selection comes from a story written by Tara Pope published in the New York Times, December 24, 2012. It is an uncommon story of a gifted teacher whose life story becomes part of the physics lessons that he teaches. I saw this story on Joanne Jacob's blog, "Linking and Thinking on Education" (http://www.joannejacobs.com/)

Jeffrey Wright is well known around his high school in Louisville, Ky., for his antics as a physics teacher, which include exploding pumpkins, hovercraft and a scary experiment that involves a bed of nails, a cinder block and a sledgehammer.

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Every teacher should take a few minutes this post and the underlying posts the Larry Cuban refers to and, then, take a few minutes to watch the video. It is what we should take stock of each day. What do I do this for?

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About ivonprefontaine

I have been an educator for almost 20 years. Prior to that, I worked in private industry for 15 years, then returned to university to earn my education degree. For the past 11 years, I have been a co-creator of learning in a unique, progressive, alternative educational school of choice. Currently, I am engaged in a doctoral program at Gonzaga University in Spokane. A main theme in my learning there has been the roles of systems thinking, complexity theory, and organizational theory, and how they apply to education generally and the learning environment I share with students, parents, and colleagues.

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  1. Stefanie Neumann | January 5, 2013 at 10:55 pm

    A very touching story – thank you for sharing the link! :)

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  2. valeriedavies | January 6, 2013 at 3:13 am

    Thank you Ivon. This is utterly inspiring…

    Reply

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