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| Date: | Wed Jul 31 20:01:42 2002 |
| Name: | GLORIA PERALES |
| E-mail: | mabemp@yahoo.com |
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| How the site was found: | friend |
| Comments: | HI,just started to us your site becuase a friend told me
about you guys and so far i have found it very intersting.I'm a teacher's
aide.So we are going to use some of your ideas.thank you so much for this
site.
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| Date: | Wed Jul 31 11:48:15 2002 |
| Name: | Rebecca Deepchandani |
| E-mail: | rebeccadeep@attbi.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Pittsburg, CA |
| How the site was found: | by looking at the back cover of a book. |
| Comments: | Thank you for the valid and rational observations.
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| Date: | Wed Jul 31 08:16:50 2002 |
| Name: | Brian Boyd |
| E-mail: | bjboyd21@yahoo |
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| Date: | Wed Jul 31 08:16:44 2002 |
| Name: | Brian Boyd |
| E-mail: | bjboyd21@yahoo |
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| Date: | Tue Jul 30 21:00:54 2002 |
| Name: | Colin Offord |
| E-mail: | Principal@levin.school.nz |
| Organization: | Levin School |
| Location: | New Zealand |
| How the site was found: | Referenced in Education Week |
| Comments: | Just here for a look. Especially interested in standardised
testing, re research for my masters.
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| Date: | Mon Jul 29 05:30:46 2002 |
| Name: | Mary Culver |
| E-mail: | maculver@crocker.com |
| Organization: | Planet Earth |
| Location: | Deerfield, Massachusetts |
| How the site was found: | Alphie gave it to me |
| Comments: | I'm actually here to browse, not to leave a message.
However, it may happen later. Thanks.
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| Date: | Sat Jul 27 19:10:16 2002 |
| Name: | Ruth Lazarus |
| E-mail: | mikelaz@avenew.com |
| Organization: | Village Day School |
| Location: | Oak Park, IL |
| How the site was found: | |
| Comments: | I co-run a small, therapeutic school, and need ideas for
how to advocate with other school administrators for why we don't give
"good attendance awards". I know the reasons, but is compromise possible
when we are told this is a must?
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| Name: | Susan Davis |
| E-mail: | Zkingsue@aol.com |
| Organization: | St. James Middle School |
| Location: | Myrtle Beach, SC |
| How the site was found: | Book...The Schools....Deserve |
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| Date: | Tue Jul 23 09:42:24 2002 |
| Name: | Thomas J. Neuville |
| E-mail: | tneuville@millersville.org |
| Organization: | Millersville Univ. |
| Location: | Millersville, PA |
| How the site was found: | I have talked to, listened to and read Alfie |
| Comments: | What we do to typical children is scary...what we do to
children with disabilities is criminal. keep up the good work.
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| Date: | Tue Jul 23 08:19:54 2002 |
| Name: | geula zamist |
| E-mail: | zamistg@ramaz.org |
| Organization: | ramaz early childhood center |
| Location: | New York |
| How the site was found: | Harvard |
| Comments: | the absolute HERO of my ten days at the HARVARD Principals
Center its still shocking to think that so many people are willing to
reduce whole wonderful children to little pencil marks on paper thank you
for being a voice of reason in an insane world!
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| Date: | Mon Jul 22 06:06:53 2002 |
| Name: | Kellie J. Thayer |
| E-mail: | kelliejo1960@aol.com |
| Organization: | Gifted Teacher |
| Location: | Logan-Rogersville, Rogersville, MO |
| How the site was found: | search for positive discipline and Alfie Kohn |
| Comments: | I like what I read -- want to read more about it!
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| Date: | Thu Jul 18 16:00:41 2002 |
| Name: | roosevelt a. farmer |
| E-mail: | georgia1939@cs.com |
| Organization: | retired |
| Location: | 701 N. king charles rd. raleigh, nc 27610 |
| How the site was found: | looking for a book by kohn |
| Comments: | I enjoy reading your books,essays, etc. You are a seminal
researcher for this time. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with
us. Your thoughts encourage me to "step up to the plate" and do what I can
to help save our children. Again, thanks!
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| Date: | Thu Jul 18 13:25:19 2002 |
| Name: | Pam Abreu |
| E-mail: | abreupam@hotmail.com |
| Organization: | las vegas city schools |
| Location: | Las Vegas, NM |
| How the site was found: | my professor |
| Comments: | I dislike high stakes testing!
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| Date: | Tue Jul 16 15:34:57 2002 |
| Name: | cynthia.boudreau |
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| Date: | Tue Jul 16 14:09:02 2002 |
| Name: | Kas Smiley |
| E-mail: | ksmiley@dlrgroup.com |
| Organization: | DLR Group |
| Location: | Portland, Oregon |
| How the site was found: | Kingston School Web Page - Bend Oregon |
| Comments: | Great information - Thanks!
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| Date: | Tue Jul 16 12:42:15 2002 |
| Name: | Genevieve Hill |
| E-mail: | petunia35@earthlink.net |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | on a link from a differentiated instruction site |
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| Date: | Sun Jul 14 13:01:45 2002 |
| Name: | George Morrison |
| E-mail: | morrisg1@staff.ednet.ns.ca |
| Organization: | Halifax Regional School Board |
| Location: | Lower Sackville Nova Scotia |
| How the site was found: | Educational Leadership/June99 |
| Comments: | We recently had our Minister of Education call for a back
to basics curriculum and we all ready have standardized tests that have
proven to be both expensive and frustrating.Teachers are very concerned. I
am doing a summer institute and exploring the usefulness of standardized
tests.Hope you don,t mind if I quote you - thanks.
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| Date: | Thu Jul 11 20:28:52 2002 |
| Name: | Dave Welch |
| E-mail: | darwel@swbell.net |
| Organization: | DARWEL Group |
| Location: | Dallas |
| How the site was found: | Saw book in store |
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| Date: | Thu Jul 11 20:07:41 2002 |
| Name: | Raewyn Allen |
| E-mail: | r.a.allen@massey.ac.nz |
| Organization: | Massey University |
| Location: | Palmerston North New Zealand |
| How the site was found: | Surfing the Web via Teachers Web.com |
| Comments: | This is a very informative and helpful website, Thankyou!
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| Date: | Thu Jul 11 14:33:27 2002 |
| Name: | Skip Kutz |
| E-mail: | kutzs1@sasktel.net |
| Organization: | Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program |
| Location: | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| How the site was found: | Lycos search |
| Comments: | Thanks for the keen insights and sensitivity. This site
provides some hope in the face of our sometimes cynical and hateful world.
Let's teach our kids to be better people than we are.
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| Date: | Wed Jul 10 09:41:18 2002 |
| Name: | Erin Forman |
| E-mail: | erin_forman@email.com |
| Organization: | grad student @ Spalding University & middle school teacher |
| Location: | Louisville KY |
| How the site was found: | professor recommended |
| Comments: | I completed my first year of teaching last year, and found
the focus on standardized testing and test preparation a frustrating waste
of time. The test questions I was privy to during "practice" test sessions
had very little to do with anything the students could connect with. The
scores that we (students and teachers) are being judged by do not
accurately reflect the students' abilities. After reading a few questions,
most kids quickly conclude that the test does not merit a genuine effort,
and teachers begging them to do their best makes it seem even sillier to
them. A 7th grade science open response "practice" question asked that the
students come up with "2 ways to conserve energy at your school". One of
my students responded that she would "stop going up and down the stairs so
much". Enough said. Thanks for providing me with hope and new ideas for
next year.
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| Date: | Mon Jul 8 19:58:50 2002 |
| Name: | Shawn Rutt |
| E-mail: | srutt123@worldnet.att.net |
| Organization: | Reading School District |
| Location: | Reading, Pa |
| How the site was found: | Read book |
| Comments: | You have made a convert. I loved what you had to say on so
many different topics. Hope to implement many of your ideas this year.
Hope all goes well
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| Date: | Mon Jul 8 18:32:35 2002 |
| Name: | Roxanne Collins |
| E-mail: | thor@thevision.net |
| Organization: | n/a |
| Location: | California |
| How the site was found: | Search engine, while looking for John Taylor Gatto |
| Comments: | I can't tell you how pleased I am to finally see new
perspectives proposed and discussed with respect to problems in public
education. It is clear that the time is long past due for real school
reform, this time based on new ways of thinking and a new set of attitudes
about both education and children. I know I'll be coming back to this site
time and again. Thanks. Roxanne
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| Date: | Mon Jul 8 17:26:25 2002 |
| Name: | Elizabeth Klutho |
| E-mail: | EKlutho@yahoo.com |
| Organization: | School Sisters of Notre Dame |
| Location: | ST. LOUIS |
| How the site was found: | Internet |
| Comments: | I am interested in middle schools available in Nurnberg.
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| Date: | Mon Jul 8 11:13:57 2002 |
| Name: | Ramón Martínez |
| E-mail: | rmmart1@yahoo.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Minneapolis, MN |
| How the site was found: | link from Rethinking Schools |
| Comments: | Thank you for your words and discussion regarding the
attacks of Sept 11. It is unfortunate that not enough people exercise
their public voice about this event. Thank you for doing so!!
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| Date: | Sat Jul 6 12:24:54 2002 |
| Name: | AliNekuye fard |
| E-mail: | ali_tantan@hotmail.com |
| Organization: | Home |
| Location: | 46 no; Ansar ST;esteghlal Blvd |
| How the site was found: | |
| Comments: | Thanks
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| Date: | Fri Jul 5 07:55:51 2002 |
| Name: | tina turner |
| E-mail: | tturner@niagararc.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | honors spec. chem course at queen's |
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| Date: | Thu Jul 4 18:12:42 2002 |
| Name: | Tom O'Kelley |
| E-mail: | tjok@attbi.com |
| Organization: | Tacoma Public Schools |
| Location: | Tacoma, Washington |
| How the site was found: | In the back of *Punished by Rewards* |
| Comments: | Mr. Kohn, I have been reading *Punished by Rewards* this
week, and have been realizing why I hated school, despite being able to
learn MUCH faster than any of my classmates, and why *my* middle school
students behave and produce so much better for me than for any of their
other teachers. I now have some great defenses for my stands on how to
work with kids, and have realized that in my 20 years of middle school
teaching I haven't gone far enough away from the rewards side of the
scale. I am going to work very hard to get the rest of my team's teachers
to read the book, as well as our school's administrators. Maybe then we
can properly assist our kids in getting the education they need and
deserve to get. Also, when are you going to do a lecture in Washington
state that I mught be able to attend. I seriously doubt I'd be able to
present myself as an Oregon State Board member. (Though I may try!) Thank
you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! --Tom O'Kelley__ PS: On the
first day of the first psych course I took in college, I verbally
challenged the instructor to show any proof that torturing and starving
rats and dogs would give the slightest clue as to how people think. He got
very upset with me. Turns out that he, Dr. Thorndike (sp?), was a grandson
or something of Dr. Thorndike. Tee hee. I dropped the course and took it
in a later year from a different professor. :)
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| Date: | Tue Jul 2 09:17:15 2002 |
| Name: | Julia A. Hill |
| E-mail: | jhill14@wi.rr.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| How the site was found: | Web source: Rethinking School |
| Comments: | Thank you for your sincere thoughts and dedication to
making a change in education.
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| Date: | Tue Jul 2 06:48:22 2002 |
| Name: | Karen Magruder |
| E-mail: | gregkarenmag@gru.net |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Gainesville, Florida |
| How the site was found: | Interested in a job in education |
| Comments: | One summer I attended "Project Zero" at Harvard University
- Teaching for Understanding. However, in Florida, as well as many other
states, state testing is more important than teaching for understanding. I
agree with Mr. Kohn's ideas on state testing and what it does to our kids!
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| Date: | Sun Jun 30 11:04:51 2002 |
| Name: | Lori Johnson |
| E-mail: | deneen2002@hotmail.com |
| Organization: | Salvation Army Headstart / Student at St. Xavier Univ. |
| Location: | 20 s. Campbell, Chicago, IL |
| How the site was found: | Saw an interview Oprah |
| Comments: | I really enjoy your work. I like your views on rewards and
punishment and being an educator of young children, I try to find a more
positive solution that will work. It gets hard sometimes, but I keep on
striving and searching for ways to do whats best for them. They are
looking to me for amswers and help, and I have to be there for them. The
area that I work in is a poor area with a lot of gun violence and domestic
abuse, so you know that I have my work cut out for me. I am very dedicated
to my babies, I have been working in this area for nine years now among
the violence. Yes, I get scared sometimes, but my children are depending
on me to be there, so I have to be. If you have any answers or information
for me, I would really appreciate it. Thank You
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| Date: | Sat Jun 29 06:25:05 2002 |
| Name: | moira kelly |
| E-mail: | moirakelly7@aol.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Test-Crazy state of Florida |
| How the site was found: | teacher friend |
| Comments: | I just completed reading A Look At Getting Back To Basics:
First Lesson: Unlearn What we Learn by Alphie Kohn. Thank you...thank
you...thank you... I am a former fourth grade teacher in this politically
test-crazy state of Florida. I have recently moved to the less (for the
moment) test anxious atmosphere of second grade. I am afraid that this is
only a temporary movement and that my next one is out of the
classroom...out of the field of education; which is unfourtunate for the
future children I might have had as well as for myself. I have the sick
"pit in my stomach" feeling of watching a beloved house burn down as I
reflect on what is happening to the field of education in my state. I want
to pick up a garden hose, stay with it, help...but the horridness of it
and the monstrosity of it creates this awful paralizing feeling inside and
makes me feel as if my only way of surviving is to turn and run. Thank
you, your article has helped me feel justified in my feelings and has
enabled me to pick up the hose and, at least for the moment, do
something...what I can do...create a loving curious, open, consistant
envirnment for my students.
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| Date: | Fri Jun 28 04:44:56 2002 |
| Name: | David Nuss |
| E-mail: | dnuss@attbi.com |
| Organization: | Gervais School District |
| Location: | Oregon |
| How the site was found: | Attended COSA Confernence |
| Comments: | I heard you at the COSA conference in Seaside in June,
2002. You made some very good points on testing that should be shared with
parents and taxpayers, who have been brain wasted on the standards focus,
currently demanding so much of our time these days.
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| Date: | Tue Jun 25 11:58:19 2002 |
| Name: | Jolynne Roper |
| E-mail: | mailto:jolynne222@hotmail.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | New Mexico |
| How the site was found: | |
| Comments: | I am trying to ger started on homeschooling and have know
idea where to look first so if any knows where or how please let me
know!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Date: | Tue Jun 25 10:47:53 2002 |
| Name: | Jaime Rosso |
| E-mail: | jaime@garlic.com |
| Organization: | Gilroy Unified School District |
| Location: | Gilroy, CA |
| How the site was found: | Gilroy High teacher |
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| Date: | Tue Jun 25 06:34:07 2002 |
| Name: | V Graham |
| E-mail: | sakinah3@yahoo.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | Teachnet Article |
| Comments: | Your article in the Teachnet Gazette was intersting but I
have a difficult time with your philosophy. One of the strategies you
suggested was saying nothing when a child shows positive behavior and
having a discussion when they show negative behavior. That would mean the
child only gets you attention for negative behavior. My husband did this
unconciously as he was raising a daughter by himself. She is now 12 and
really awful because bad behavior gets her an audience with him. Also, the
comment that states what was done without judgement would have the same
affect as a positive statement because the mere fact that you noticed is
positive feedback.
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| Date: | Sun Jun 23 13:39:05 2002 |
| Name: | Barb Olson |
| E-mail: | olsonb@web.sheridan2.k12.wy.us |
| Organization: | Sheridan County School District #2 |
| Location: | Sheridan Wyoming |
| How the site was found: | C span |
| Comments: |
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| Date: | Sun Jun 23 11:33:59 2002 |
| Name: | Rene Hill |
| E-mail: | love2knit2@yahoo.com |
| Organization: | University of Phoenix |
| Location: | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| How the site was found: | class assignment |
| Comments: | I could not access the assigned site as it is no longer
there
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| Date: | Sat Jun 22 16:11:06 2002 |
| Name: | Melinda Butler |
| E-mail: | mebutler@iusb.edu |
| Organization: | Indiana University South Bend |
| Location: | Northern Indiana |
| How the site was found: | typed in "alphie kohn" in google!! |
| Comments: | I am currently working on my doctorate and am extremely
interested in issues regarding standardized tests... teaching toward the
test, and actual achievement of students. Having taught in the school
system for a number of years I have seen what happend when people teach to
test.. as well as the stress that "the test" puts on the educational
environment. I have seen what has happened to wonderful schools/teachers
when their "success" was measured only by the state mandated numbers. I
better get off my soapbox... I would have lots to say!!
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| Date: | Mon Jun 17 10:16:02 2002 |
| Name: | Dana Sukey |
| E-mail: | anad25@hotmail.com |
| Organization: | Student Teacher @ Queen's University |
| Location: | Kingston, ON |
| How the site was found: | discussed in one of my education classes/heard Alfie Kohn speak as well |
| Comments: | I just wanted to say, that I am thankful to find that there
are people out there like Alfie Kohn, who are not only intelligable, but
also personal and who are brave enough to get their opinions out there.
Alifie Kohn has the ability to get his ideas across in a manner that
transcends all levels of education. He has a way of making even the
dullest facts and figures come to life, a way that makes people second
guess previous biases. We need to be thankful for innovators and pioneers
in education like Aflie Kohn...We need to learn from him and become more
like him!
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| Date: | Fri Jun 14 11:49:33 2002 |
| Name: | Monica Chesla |
| E-mail: | andyscoot@msn.com |
| Organization: | Hiram Elementary school |
| Location: | Hiram OH |
| How the site was found: | yahoo |
| Comments: | I am a big fan of yours! I hope some day you will be coming
to Cleveland. I would love to hear you lecture!
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| Date: | Fri Jun 14 11:47:49 2002 |
| Name: | Monica Chesla |
| E-mail: | andyscoot@msn.com |
| Organization: | Hiram Elementary school |
| Location: | Hiram OH |
| How the site was found: | yahoo |
| Comments: | I am a big fan of yours! I hope some day you will be coming
to Cleveland. I would love to hear you lecture!
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| Date: | Fri Jun 14 11:43:26 2002 |
| Name: | Monica Chesla |
| E-mail: | |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
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| Date: | Thu Jun 13 10:19:35 2002 |
| Name: | David Steele |
| E-mail: | davids1994@aol.com |
| Organization: | Santa Monica Alternate School House |
| Location: | Santa Monica, CA |
| How the site was found: | |
| Comments: | We have a public progressive school, K-8 with multi grade
classes, no grades and a strong focus on the school as a learning
community. The parents pulled so many of the students from the CA S9
standard tests that they cannot compile a score for the school. For any of
you who have questions about this kind of education, IT WORKS!
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| Date: | Thu Jun 13 05:11:27 2002 |
| Name: | Matthew Heusser |
| E-mail: | Heusserm@student.gvsu.edu |
| Organization: | Civil Air Patrol |
| Location: | Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| How the site was found: | Web Search |
| Comments: | I read "The problem with A's, Praise ..." at my school's
bookstore abotu a year ago. I also volenter as a Captain in Civil Air
Patrol, where I teach youth (12-20 yrs) leadership principles. It's
interesting that most of my Cadets would be totally opposed to your
message because it's too "communist." For the past two years, we've had a
drill team, and tried to "motivate" them with the idea that "if we win at
XX level, we'll have a pizza party or go to an adventure park, or ski
trip, etc." I tried to apply some of the concepts in Kohn's work, and I
noticed something. When the competition was over, the cadets had
completely forgotten about the reward. They didn't CARE - because the very
act of being a drill team became it's own reward. I can't say I competely
agree with all of Kohn's ideas - like the case against competition - but
in a leadership dimension, there is certainly something there to
what he writes. I've also recently become a journal article writer for
www.cadetstuff.org, and managed to shoe-horn some of Kohn's ideas into my
articles:
http://www.cadetstuff.org/features/200112/200112_huesser_styles_4.htm Note
that the sarcastic style is for two reasons: (1) I do think Kohn needs to
be taken with both eyes open, and (2) To reach the intended audience.
Thanks for the insight - I like to learn, and think you do as well, or you
probably wouldn't be reading this.
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| Date: | Thu Jun 13 05:04:11 2002 |
| Name: | Matthew Heusser |
| E-mail: | Matthew_Heusser@McGraw-Hill.com |
| Organization: | Civil Air Patrol |
| Location: | Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| How the site was found: | Web Search |
| Comments: |
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| Date: | Wed Jun 12 00:20:59 2002 |
| Name: | Al Teal |
| E-mail: | al@alteal.com |
| Organization: | none |
| Location: | Hinesville |
| How the site was found: | Fox News Channel |
| Comments: | In the free world, competition is required. Humans are
programmed by nature to compete. You will have to have dictatorial rule
over people to keep them from competing. You are apparently someone who
lacks the desire or the ability to compete on your own. I have a theory:
You cannot achieve excellence yourself so you would like to see excellence
outlawed. Your ideas, if implemented, would add the US to the list of
totalitarian nations.
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| Date: | Tue Jun 11 19:00:17 2002 |
| Name: | Matthew Foldenauer |
| E-mail: | mfoldenauer@comcast.net |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Arlington, VA |
| How the site was found: | google search for name |
| Comments: | I saw your appearance on Hannity and Colmes. Did you get
beat up a lot as a child? I'm glad that the great military leaders of
American history weren't tought using your philosophies.
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| Date: | Tue Jun 11 12:30:35 2002 |
| Name: | ken horton |
| E-mail: | khorton@mysaterynet.mb.ca |
| Organization: | Mystery lake School division |
| Location: | thompson, manitoba |
| How the site was found: | Browsing |
| Comments: |
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| Date: | Mon Jun 10 17:13:24 2002 |
| Name: | Jamie Rhodes |
| E-mail: | jamielrhodes@hotmail.com |
| Organization: | Graduate Student at LaGrange College, GA |
| Location: | Newnan, GA |
| How the site was found: | Referenced your book, The Schools Our Children Deserve |
| Comments: | This was required reading for my graduate MAT program and
such an unbelievable and refreshing eye-opener! If only every parent and
teacher would read this book... and realize that our children's
intelligence is being undermined on a daily basis, surely a grass roots
movement would arise in protest. I hope to get this book in the hands of
every parent, teacher and headmaster that I know. Thank you for the
insight... most parents have no idea that other methods exist!
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| Date: | Mon Jun 10 16:04:29 2002 |
| Name: | Kelly Kent Johnson |
| E-mail: | boatersx4@aol.com |
| Organization: | public school teacher |
| Location: | Newport News, VA |
| How the site was found: | through Disney's Learning Partnership website |
| Comments: | I couldn't agree more with Alfie Kohn's sentiments. I have
tried to be an advocate for these beliefs in my 21 years of teaching!
Cheers to you!
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| Date: | Mon Jun 10 12:34:48 2002 |
| Name: | melinda andolina |
| E-mail: | mma65@msn.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | Canisius College |
| Comments: |
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| Date: | Sun Jun 9 05:36:19 2002 |
| Name: | Patrick Beilby |
| E-mail: | pbeilby@ksc.th.com |
| Organization: | Femina Lace |
| Location: | Bangkok |
| How the site was found: | The back of 'Punished by rewards' |
| Comments: | The best advice for any parent or manager(I am both) is to
be found in your book 'punished by rewards'. A new and better way to
explain and understand our society and for me and my children a chance of
finding real happiness and at the same time achieving excellence. The best
book that I have picked up in a long time, Alfie Kohn, thank you so much.
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| Date: | Sat Jun 8 20:21:34 2002 |
| Name: | Karen Boltwood |
| E-mail: | Bennafernoa@aol.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Rochester, NY |
| How the site was found: | on the back of Mr. Kohn's book |
| Comments: | As a parent of a first-grader who is struggling with
learning disabilities, I am totally against standardized testing! We have
been fighting with the teachers and principal since January to get help
for our child, but they seem to prefer the "cookie-cutter" approach to
teaching the future of our country! Thank you, Mr. Kohn, for your
wonderful books!
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| Date: | Thu Jun 6 19:02:50 2002 |
| Name: | Kris Fujita |
| E-mail: | Kris_Fujita@notes.k12.hi.us |
| Organization: | Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School |
| Location: | Hawaii |
| How the site was found: | The forward to Susan Ohanian's book "What Happened to Recess...?" |
| Comments: | I am a huge fan of Susan Ohanian and have heard a great
deal about "Punished by Rewards." I leaped for joy when I read you words
in the forward to her latest book -- "Knock out the artificial supports
propping up 'Success For All,'Open Court,''Reading Mastery,' and other
prefabricated exercises in drilling kids to produce right answers (ofetn
without any understanding), and these programs will then collapse of their
own dead weight." YES! YES! YES! This will prove to be so true but only
after too many children have paid the price... These programs are the
current "flavors of the month" here in Hawaii and it's a real struggle to
keep this kind of thinking out of our public middle school. Thank you,
Alfie Kohn, for providing us with more ammunition to keep up the good
fight.
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| Date: | Wed Jun 5 12:09:17 2002 |
| Name: | Joseph Milnes |
| E-mail: | jhmilnes@yahoo.com |
| Organization: | Springfield School District |
| Location: | Springfield (Delco), P! 19064 |
| How the site was found: | from an article |
| Comments: | I'm fascinated with Kohn's work and am preparing an
analysis of his Educational Theory for a doctoral level class that I am
taking at Widener University. I have 8 guiding principles to get through
the analysis. I have read three of his books; The Schools Our Children
Deserve, Punished by Rewards, and The Case Against Standardized Testing,
as well as, several articles that he has written. When I came across this
website I was hoping that he actually looks at this site and could lend
some assistance. Aftre all who would better know the answers then "St.
Alfie" (professor's reference)himself. Here are the guiding principles:
Theory of Value: What knowledge and skills are worthwhile learning? What
are the goals of educaiton? Theory of Knowledge: What is knowledge? How is
it different from belief? What is a mistake? A lie? Theory of Human
Nature: What is a human being? How does it differ from other species? What
are the limits of human potential? Theory of Learning: What is learning?
How are skills and knowledge acquired? Theory of Transmission: Who is to
teach? By what methods? What will the curriculum be? Theory of Society:
What is society? What institutions are involved in the educational
process? Theory of Opportunity: Who is to be educated? Who is to be
schooled? Theory of Consensus: Why do people disagree? How is consensus
achieved? Whose opinion takes precedence?
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| Date: | Sat Jun 1 20:47:33 2002 |
| Name: | Cameron |
| E-mail: | acameron@uni.edu |
| Organization: | Graduate Student |
| Location: | Iowa |
| How the site was found: | Back of book |
| Comments: | I am interested in hearing you speak. Will there be any
lectures in Texas in the upcoming year?
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| Date: | Sat Jun 1 12:26:29 2002 |
| Name: | Georgia Hedrick |
| E-mail: | saraw1@msn.com |
| Organization: | Roaring Lion Ebook Writing |
| Location: | Reno, NV |
| How the site was found: | Heard about it from Literacy for all |
| Comments: | I have wanted to get to this site for a long, long time.
I'll be back. I am of the thought that 'real teachers don't test' because
they don't have to. They know. With enough teaching experience, they most
certain scoff at standardized tests. I would like every single
administrator to take a standardized test and publish their scores--they
also would be forbidden to take elementary level tests. No fair. In WCSD,
the testing department has increased 3-fold. In WCSD, some schools have no
library money in the budget. Nothing. gh
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| Date: | Sat Jun 1 07:05:55 2002 |
| Name: | Suzanne Gerczak |
| E-mail: | sgerczak@aol.com |
| Organization: | Alief Independent School District |
| Location: | Houston, TX |
| How the site was found: | On the back of one of Mr. Kohn's books |
| Comments: | I love Mr. Kohn's work! His books always offer new insight
into the many issues in public education.
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| Date: | Fri May 31 09:32:12 2002 |
| Name: | aubrey chanecka |
| E-mail: | chanec87@cortland.edu |
| Organization: | Student at SUNY Cortland |
| Location: | Cortland NY 13045 |
| How the site was found: | from a proffesor |
| Comments: | Dear Mr.Kohn, I was wondering if there were some more
information on grading how and why? Just like the article on the teaching
part of your homepage. I need info for a class and I need to make a
website about it and I love the topic! Great articles!
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| Date: | Thu May 30 07:58:53 2002 |
| Name: | Ann Spielmaker |
| E-mail: | annieS@lee.k12.fl.us |
| Organization: | FGCU |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | Friend |
| Comments: | Greetings
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| Date: | Tue May 28 07:02:23 2002 |
| Name: | Gary W. Senyo |
| E-mail: | gsenyo@ucasd.iu5.org |
| Organization: | PSEA Committee For The Preservation Of Public Education |
| Location: | Pennsylvania |
| How the site was found: | by Alfie |
| Comments: | I recommend this site 4 or 5 times a year in my reports to
educators. It is for enlightened thinkers looking for a better way and who
are tired of the anti-teacher rhetoric of the Bush - Ridge era.
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| Date: | Mon May 27 16:35:49 2002 |
| Name: | joanne felix |
| E-mail: | joski14250@aol |
| Organization: | uft |
| Location: | NY |
| How the site was found: | googlre.com |
| Comments: |
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| Date: | Sun May 26 15:32:16 2002 |
| Name: | Karen Villacres |
| E-mail: | davidv49@hal-pc.org |
| Organization: | mother |
| Location: | 3618 Valley Haven |
| How the site was found: | Kingwood, Tx. 77339 |
| Comments: | I have a soon to be third grder who has so much anxiety
over performence that she requires therapy. Any information that you could
send me would be helpful. I am planning to order some of your tapes and
books. She is in the public school system currently. I have been advised
to seek "cognitive behavioral therapy" for her. She has been diagnosed
with general anxiety disorder. As her mother I know that her anxiety is
mostly related to performance.
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| Date: | Sun May 26 09:37:47 2002 |
| Name: | Judith Van Tyne |
| E-mail: | vantynje@aol.com |
| Organization: | School Board of Alachua County-Head Start |
| Location: | Gainesville, FL |
| How the site was found: | a 2001 article in Young Children magazine |
| Comments: | I am a training and resource specialist for Head Start and
have conducted many workshops on disabilities, early childhood development
and behavior. In each of these I try to find the time to discourage the
use of praise and give teachers an alternative - by noticing and
acknowledging or "You did it!" I am always looking for support for this
approach so I thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your deep
understanding of the negative effects of praise, etc.
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| Date: | Sat May 25 22:00:41 2002 |
| Name: | Robin Hoare |
| E-mail: | robinsnest@paradise.net.nz |
| Organization: | -- |
| Location: | New Zealand |
| How the site was found: | Read "No Contest" first |
| Comments: | I believe Alfie's ideas should be studied closely if we
want to cure our sick society
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| Date: | Fri May 24 10:37:38 2002 |
| Name: | Don Perl |
| E-mail: | myexcel.com |
| Organization: | Perl against CSAP |
| Location: | Greeley Colorado |
| How the site was found: | Substance |
| Comments: | Dear Alfie Kohn, We spoke on the phone last year, and you
were kind enough to send me your book, The Case Against Standardized
Testing. I had boycotted the CSAP test. I couldn't bring myself to
continue in this district, and so I resigned at the end of the 2001 school
year. This year I am planning some political action by renting an
educational booth at Greeley's "Fiesta Days." I'll let you know how things
go. In the meantime, if there is any advice you could send me, or
literature I could access, I would be grateful. In solidarity, Don Perl
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| Date: | Wed May 22 07:03:59 2002 |
| Name: | Cathie Rollings |
| E-mail: | Rollings43@cs.com |
| Organization: | Randlolph County Partnership for Children |
| Location: | Ashboro, North Carolina |
| How the site was found: | link through ooeygooey.com |
| Comments: | please email me if you are speaking anywhere in N.C. region
and article updates.
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| Date: | Tue May 21 14:45:43 2002 |
| Name: | Jim Bellis |
| E-mail: | jbellis@together.net |
| Organization: | Self |
| Location: | South Burlington, Vermont |
| How the site was found: | Software Success News Letter |
| Comments: | Your thoughts are an inspiration for those of us who are in
the work-world and must deal with the conventional wisdom of work
incentives. You definitely got it right. The major issue now, as I see it,
is how do you get your ideas to be accepted as mainstream thinking?
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| Date: | Tue May 21 08:04:24 2002 |
| Name: | Dennis Baker |
| E-mail: | baker@glattnet.ch |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | |
| Comments: | Dear Mr. Kohn: Having just read your editorial in USA
Today, you thoroughly lose me. You cite research that "overwhelmingly"
shows that lagging students are stigmatized by retention. I agree, but I
fear you are suggesting promotion even when the child is far behind the
grade level. Will promoting the child to a more advanced grade help or
hurt the child? Will the child get more behind, frustrated and lacking in
self-confidence and self-esteem? Would you concede that the Marva Collins
approach is so much better? Is the solution to believe in children and
stick with them and refuse to give up? All children are capable of
learning. We as Americans and teachers must accept the basic premise that
ALL children can learn. They only need adults who believe in them, i.e.,
teachers, who should endeavor to help those children who fall behind, for
whatever reason. As a backup, summer school (and I can speak from personal
experience) at least gives a child another chance, perhaps with less
pressure than during the regular school year. Best regards, Dennis Baker
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| Date: | Mon May 20 18:47:21 2002 |
| Name: | sarah kerry |
| E-mail: | tskerry@msn.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | textbook citation |
| Comments: | I am taking a classroom management course and your beliefs
make so much sense to me. I love how you say it like it is and should be.
Thanks.
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| Date: | Fri May 17 22:30:27 2002 |
| Name: | Mary Ellen Ramplin |
| E-mail: | meramplin@netscape.net |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | Citation in textbook |
| Comments: | Thank you for having the necesary information ready for
download.
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| Date: | Fri May 17 22:29:38 2002 |
| Name: | Mary Ellen Ramplin |
| E-mail: | meramplin@netscape.net |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | Citation in textbook |
| Comments: | Tank you for having the necesary information ready for
download.
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| Date: | Fri May 17 13:14:10 2002 |
| Name: | Clotilde Isabel Silva Waddington |
| E-mail: | katy@tropical.co.mz |
| Organization: | None - Cnosultant on teacher training and child learning |
| Location: | Maputo, Mozambique |
| How the site was found: | In the book punished by Rewards |
| Comments: | Just to say that it´s wonderfull to see our must deep
feelings, intuitions and beliefs so well articulated. Thank you.
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| Date: | Fri May 17 13:09:16 2002 |
| Name: | Howard Weiner |
| E-mail: | howard619@msn.com |
| Organization: | Adelphi university |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | Mentioned in book on standardized testing |
| Comments: | Dear Dr. Kohn, I agree with your characterization of high
stakes testing as well as the problems with the use of rewards and
punishments resulting from comparing these test results to impact on the
culture of the school and classroom. I'm currently using the "Good Work"
model to examine socially responsible teaching and view the problems and
conflicts teachers have to confront stemming to a large degree from the
impact of the factors you address. I'd love to discuss my research with
you should you be interested. Howard Weiner, Ph.D 718/417-2697
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| Date: | Wed May 15 15:38:48 2002 |
| Name: | Todd Bannon |
| E-mail: | tabannon.geo@yahoo.com |
| Organization: | Climax-Scotts Jr./Sr. High |
| Location: | Climax, Michigan |
| How the site was found: | Western Michigan University education class |
| Comments: | We're reading Beyond Discipline in our class and it is
creating some lively debate, to say the least. For such a young group of
students, I am surprised by the conservative attitudes towards classroom
management. I am enjoying your book and your ideas. I am currently
plotting ways to convince my administration to allow me use your
techniques. As a probationary teacher, I have a difficult time convincing
my principal that my "casual" tactics actually have good results.
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| Date: | Mon May 13 08:48:57 2002 |
| Name: | Stephen Verdon |
| E-mail: | bobbijn@aol,com |
| Organization: | none |
| Location: | Los Angeles, CA |
| How the site was found: | Inserted kohn into google |
| Comments: | None, I am researching educators. I am a student in a
classroom management class, and my instructor thought Alfie's methods were
akin to my ideas.
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| Date: | Sat May 11 11:03:05 2002 |
| Name: | John Stowell |
| E-mail: | jmstow@ev1.net |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Katy TX |
| How the site was found: | Gerald Bracey's 11th. report |
| Comments: | Well Done! You're a brave man with integrity.
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| Date: | Fri May 10 07:33:54 2002 |
| Name: | Jamie Emerson |
| E-mail: | jemerson@auracom.com |
| Organization: | Peterborough Youth Services |
| Location: | Peterborough, Ontario |
| How the site was found: | attended a seminar in Belleville, Ontario |
| Comments: | At a time in Ontario when there are so many deeply
concerning social policies, school refrom is the most sinister. As the
director of a Children's Mental Health Service, we see it's impact every
day. "Zero tolerance" has become the operational philosophy of the school
system. Thanks to school reform, it has been extended far beyond certain
kinds of behavior to include zero tolerance for any kid struggling with
social or emotional problems, any kid living in a home that is under
resourced, any kid with learning problems and even any kid whose learning
style is not compatible with standardized testing. We are not "raising the
bar" in terms of improving the quality of education, we are raising the
bar to exclude more and more kids from success in our educational system
and by extension, positive participation in our society. How deep a
thinker do you have to be to realize that the inevitable consequence of
this will be more people who are unemployable or in low paying jobs that
don't pay the bills, greater rates of all kinds of social problems,
streets that are increasingly unsafe and more of our tax dollars going to
fund prisons instead of education or health care. If you think I
exaggerate, just look south of the border.
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| Date: | Thu May 9 15:17:12 2002 |
| Name: | rtrwv g |
| E-mail: | fdsg |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | bvbf |
| How the site was found: | |
| Comments: | ddfhdfhvcn
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| Date: | Mon May 6 21:44:50 2002 |
| Name: | Helen Dombrowski |
| E-mail: | davnhel@eagleslair.net |
| Organization: | Early Childhood Special Education |
| Location: | Bend, Oregon |
| How the site was found: | I guessed. |
| Comments: | I heard Alfie speak in Portland,Oregon last year and I was
thinking about all the innovative ideas he presented. In my OSU class on
Behavior in Children, we are using Beyond Behaviorism, Changing the
Classroom Management Paradigm, H. Jerome Freiberg, Editor, and Alfie's
theories on democratic practices are sited. Just want to thank you Alfie,
for all your hard work! Helen Dombrowski
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| Date: | Mon May 6 14:14:15 2002 |
| Name: | lekaysia |
| E-mail: | essence@cconnect.net |
| Organization: | help |
| Location: | newbern nc southgate |
| How the site was found: | just searching the web |
| Comments: | i need a program called ccc please try to find somthing
like it atleast
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| Date: | Mon May 6 08:40:44 2002 |
| Name: | Thomas Roche |
| E-mail: | tom.roche@enterpriseinns.plc.uk |
| Organization: | Enterprise Inns |
| Location: | West Midlands, United Kingdom |
| How the site was found: | Google search on Alfie Kohn |
| Comments: | I read No Contest and Punished by Rewards. Both struck a
chord. I work in a call centre environment where Pavlovian concepts of
reward and punishment reign supreme. Unfortunately, most people around me
believe my thinking belongs on another planet. Kohn's work has helped me
see everything differently, from education to politics.
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| Date: | Sun May 5 19:50:31 2002 |
| Name: | Dorothy Whitley |
| E-mail: | dwhitley1@pdq.net |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Houston, TX |
| How the site was found: | From late night TV |
| Comments: | I'd like a schedule of your TV appearances or the programs
you will appear on regularly. For my own benefit and to pass this
information along, I'd like your schedule. Thanks. dwhitley1
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| Date: | Sun May 5 08:28:06 2002 |
| Name: | L. H. Blackwell |
| E-mail: | |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | message board post |
| Comments: | I never thought I would see the day that learning
information, having the ability to recall it and to score well on a test
would be considered a bad thing. Shame on you. You get a D. It would have
been an F but I think you are trying; just looking in the wrong direction.
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| Date: | Fri May 3 17:41:54 2002 |
| Name: | elizabeth villegas |
| E-mail: | shavelav6@sbcglobalnet.com |
| Organization: | home |
| Location: | home |
| How the site was found: | internet |
| Comments: | help me ,please my son is slowly sinking into this stage of
little self worth and i dont know how to help him.......
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| Date: | Thu May 2 08:59:38 2002 |
| Name: | Michelle Mapel |
| E-mail: | mkmapel@hotmail.com |
| Organization: | Student |
| Location: | Simpson College, Indianola, IA 50125 |
| How the site was found: | I attened Alfie's Lecture in Des Moines and he mentioned it! |
| Comments: | I was very energized when I left the lecture! It was great
to listen to someone who shares my enthusiasm for teaching.
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| Date: | Thu May 2 08:02:33 2002 |
| Name: | lindsay Strachan-baker |
| E-mail: | lbaker@csnewfrontiers.qc.ca |
| Organization: | New Frontiers School Board |
| Location: | chateauguay, Quebec |
| How the site was found: | I attended the schools that learn conference in Toronto |
| Comments: | I was in total agreement with your philosopy on
standardized testing and I presented all the info. last night at my school
Governing Board. I really enjoyed the conference and was very impressed
with your presentation. thank you so much. Lindsay Baker
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| Date: | Tue Apr 30 14:22:04 2002 |
| Name: | Del Nelson |
| E-mail: | delnelsonatARC@aol.com |
| Organization: | American River College |
| Location: | Sacramento, CA |
| How the site was found: | One of my class student teams, studying the teachings of Dr. Deming, referred me |
| Comments: | As always, Alfie is doing what Dr. Deming espoused, "Chip,
chip, chipping away!" In addition to testing I would like to see a
refernce or two to the nonsense of appraisals. Del
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| Date: | Tue Apr 30 14:21:01 2002 |
| Name: | Del Nelson |
| E-mail: | delnelsonatARC@aol.com |
| Organization: | American River College |
| Location: | Sacramento, CA |
| How the site was found: | One of my class student teams, studying the teachinhs of Dr. Deming referred me |
| Comments: | As always, Alfie is doing what Dr. Deming espoused, "Chip,
chip, chipping away!" In addition to testing I would like to see a
refernce or two to the nonsense of appraisals. Del
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| Date: | Tue Apr 30 01:23:54 2002 |
| Name: | Matze |
| E-mail: | |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | |
| Comments: |
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| Date: | Mon Apr 29 15:37:33 2002 |
| Name: | Timothy Woods |
| E-mail: | timothywoods@attbi.com |
| Organization: | Dracut Public Schools |
| Location: | Dracut MA 01826 |
| How the site was found: | Conference |
| Comments: | Your lecture at the Toronto conference 4/18 was
outstanding! Your material is referenced often in the C.A.G.S. courses I
am taking so it was a pleasure to see you in person. Anytime you will be
in the New england area please let us know.
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| Date: | Mon Apr 29 14:14:48 2002 |
| Name: | karen zoppa |
| E-mail: | k.zoppa@uwinnipeg.ca |
| Organization: | MACRO - Meaningful Assessment and Curricular Reform Organiztion |
| Location: | Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada |
| How the site was found: | |
| Comments: | I am looking for national or provincial organizations that
share our desire to eliminate "outcomes" and "standards" in the our
schools and educational policies. If anyone can help, please e-mail me.
Thanks.
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| Date: | Sat Apr 27 18:54:47 2002 |
| Name: | Quinn Morris |
| E-mail: | quinn_morris2000@yahoo.com |
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| Location: | North Carolina |
| How the site was found: | |
| Comments: | I have am in the middle of Punishment by Rewards and i just
wanted to express gratitude for Mr. Kohn because everything he says i
experience everyday at my school. I'm glad he finally brought it out in
the open.
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| Date: | Sat Apr 27 18:53:50 2002 |
| Name: | Quinn Morris |
| E-mail: | quinn_morris2000@yahoo.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | North Carolina |
| How the site was found: | |
| Comments: | I have am in the middle of Punishment by Rewards and i just
wanted to express gratitude for Mr. Kohn because everything he says i
experience everyday at my school. I'm glad he finally brought it out in
the open.
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| Date: | Thu Apr 18 11:45:16 2002 |
| Name: | Dr. Marla K. Banks |
| E-mail: | banksm@mcmurryadm.edu |
| Organization: | McMurry University |
| Location: | Abilene, TX 79697 |
| How the site was found: | web listed in text |
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| Date: | Wed Apr 17 22:19:36 2002 |
| Name: | Bruce Foden |
| E-mail: | bfoden@post.kosone.com |
| Organization: | ON-YOUR-MARK Training & Technical Services |
| Location: | Wellington, Ontario K0K 3L0 |
| How the site was found: | You gave it out |
| Comments: | I attended your lecture at Queen's U this evening. Thanks
for the refreshing critique of the 'accountability' mess. Interestingly,
the newscast just an hour before your talk carried word from the new
minister that the teacher testing requirement will be 'reviewed', a clear
signal that that policy, and possibly most of the impetus for the Ontario
approach to education reform, was driven by the lately departed Premier!
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| Date: | Wed Apr 17 07:54:29 2002 |
| Name: | Michael Mirigian |
| E-mail: | mikemirigian@clovisusd.k12.ca.us |
| Organization: | Clovis West High School |
| Location: | Fresno, CA |
| How the site was found: | On the back cover of "The Case Against Standardized Testing." |
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| Date: | Tue Apr 16 10:00:50 2002 |
| Name: | Margaret Delligatti |
| E-mail: | mdelligatti@d112.lake.k12.il.us |
| Organization: | Wayne Thomas Elem./ NLU graduate student |
| Location: | Highland Park, Il |
| How the site was found: | Lecture at NLU on 4-15-02 |
| Comments: | After attending the lecture at NLU I realized how
underappreciated good teachers really are. My concerns were affirmed at
this event. A recent article in "Chicago" magazine posted the test scores
for hundereds of schools in the Chicagoland area. Upon paying for the
material, which I now use for entertainment purposes only, the teenage boy
at the register was bragging about how his private school was ranked at
the top of the list. The only school, "above his" was a noted instiution
on the North Shore. I hate to tell this poor young man that this really
means his tuiton is being wasted on bad education! Maybe someone should
give this information to his parents so they could save their money for
his college experience!
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| Date: | Tue Apr 16 09:28:33 2002 |
| Name: | Dr. Jan R. Bartlett |
| E-mail: | jbartlet@iastate.edu |
| Organization: | Iowa State University |
| Location: | Ames, Iowa |
| How the site was found: | referred to by Alfie Kohn |
| Comments: | Alfie spoke yesterday at the Alternative Education
Conference in Des Moines and I took 6 of my graduate students who are
preparing to be counselors & consultants. We are using his book: The
schools our children deserve in the practicum course. He was clearly
passionate and provided the group with valuable information and an
excellent reframing of the context for learning. Thanks for your
dedication to this topic. My colleague and I approach our teaching here at
the university in much the same way. Learning is learning, no matter the
age, the context, or content. We are discussing not using grades and
seeking to make our new curriculum much more student centered and "working
with" rather than "doing to."
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| Date: | Tue Apr 16 09:27:31 2002 |
| Name: | Dr. Jan R. Bartlett |
| E-mail: | jbartlet@iastate.edu |
| Organization: | Iowa State University |
| Location: | Ames, Iowa |
| How the site was found: | referred to by Alfie Kohn |
| Comments: | Alfie spoke yesterday at the Alternative Education
Conference in Des Moines and I took 6 of my graduate students who are
preparing to be counselors & consultants. We are using his book: The
schools our children deserve in the practicum course. He was clearly
passionate and provided the group with valuable information and an
excellent reframing of the context for learning. Thanks for your
dedication to this topic. My colleague and I approach our teaching here at
the university in much the same way. Learning is learning, no matter the
age, the context, or content. We are discussing not using grades and
seeking to make our new curriculum much more student centered and "working
with" rather than "doing to."
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| Date: | Mon Apr 15 13:25:04 2002 |
| Name: | Kellie Dixon |
| E-mail: | kaggy@earthlink.net |
| Organization: | University of Texas / Graduate student/ Ed Psy |
| Location: | Austin, Texas |
| How the site was found: | Research for curriculum class |
| Comments: | Mr. Kohn, I fascinated by your veiw point. I was unable to
attend your lecture when you were in San Antonio, but I hope I will have
another oppurtunity. My worry is not changing how students react to "no
grades", but their parents, universities, the business world. We are a
competitive society and base all selection on some form of competition.
Thank you for your message. As a new teacher, it gives me hope for our
educational system.
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| Date: | Fri Apr 12 22:17:21 2002 |
| Name: | Lauriekay Meacham |
| E-mail: | wildsky@earthlink.net |
| Organization: | Wild Sky Art Studios |
| Location: | Pacific, WA |
| How the site was found: | internet search |
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| Date: | Fri Apr 12 12:57:08 2002 |
| Name: | Brent Reid |
| E-mail: | dumbledore@shaw.ca |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Vancouver Island, BC, Canada |
| How the site was found: | Your publisher |
| Comments: | Our province is the latest to throw out the wisdom and
expertise of experienced teachers and replace it with dubious data
gathered on invalid standardized tests. Dr. Kohn presents us with sound
counter-arguments, alternative strategies, and hope. The pendulum will
swing back. Until then, our job is to minimize the damage caused to
children by this harmful, politially expedient foolishness.
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| Date: | Fri Apr 12 05:40:32 2002 |
| Name: | DeAnn Webb |
| E-mail: | dwebb2@towson.edu |
| Organization: | Student-Education Major |
| Location: | Towson, MD |
| How the site was found: | www.enc.org |
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| Date: | Wed Apr 10 11:36:05 2002 |
| Name: | William Stierle |
| E-mail: | touchdwn83@aol.com |
| Organization: | Corporate Culture Development |
| Location: | Santa Monica, CA 90404 |
| How the site was found: | book |
| Comments: | Thank you for your insight and research. I refer people to
read your book at every workshop I present. I am interested in more
business applications and workplace applications.
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| Date: | Tue Apr 9 21:31:54 2002 |
| Name: | Jane Stimmel |
| E-mail: | jcam@tfb.com |
| Organization: | Sage Meadow Elementary School |
| Location: | Fallbrook, CA |
| How the site was found: | Book jacket |
| Comments: | We will be opening our doors for the first time in the Fall
2002, and we plan to use the constructivist approach through and through.
It seems that finding the right teachers might be the hard part. Any
advice?
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| Date: | Tue Apr 9 19:25:35 2002 |
| Name: | Margarita G. Lizarra |
| E-mail: | margaliz@bestnetpc.com |
| Organization: | |
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| How the site was found: | Through the Star Channel |
| Comments: | Beloved Mr. Kohn; I hope that every single teacher of this
planet becomes aware of your educational platform about behavior and
humane development. As an educator I not only apply your principles but I
am trying every single day to become that wonderfull person that others
can emulate .My behavior can promote ethical behaviors that ultimately
will round off a caring and extraordinary humane being. Dr. Kohn ,keep it
up. I just want you to know that I am working with you. I thank you from
my heart and ask God to bless yoy and those who are pro better citizen .
Remember, that I am with you in this campaing. Respectfully, Margarita
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| Date: | Tue Apr 9 19:25:29 2002 |
| Name: | Margarita G. Lizarra |
| E-mail: | margaliz@bestnetpc.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | Through the Star Channel |
| Comments: | Beloved Mr. Kohn; I hope that every single teacher of this
planet becomes aware of your educational platform about behavior and
humane development. As an educator I not only apply your principles but I
am trying every single day to become that wonderfull person that others
can emulate .My behavior can promote ethical behaviors that ultimately
will round off a caring and extraordinary humane being. Dr. Kohn ,keep it
up. I just want you to know that I am working with you. I thank you from
my heart and ask God to bless yoy and those who are pro better citizen .
Remember, that I am with you in this campaing. Respectfully, Margarita
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| Date: | Tue Apr 9 19:24:33 2002 |
| Name: | Margarita G. Lizarra |
| E-mail: | margaliz@bestnetpc.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | Through the Star Channel |
| Comments: | Beloved Mr. Kohn; I hope that every single teacher of this
planet becomes aware of your educational platform about behavior and
humane development. As an educator I not only apply your principles but I
am trying every single day to become that wonderfull person that others
can emulate .My behavior can promote ethical behaviors that ultimately
will round off a caring and extraordinary humane being. Dr. Kohn ,keep it
up. I just want you to know that I am working with you. I thank you from
my heart and ask God to bless yoy and those who are pro better citizen .
Remember, that I am with you in this campaing. Respectfully, Margarita
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| Date: | Tue Apr 9 10:47:24 2002 |
| Name: | Fay Becks |
| E-mail: | |
| Organization: | Parent |
| Location: | Ontario |
| How the site was found: | Radio |
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| Date: | Tue Apr 9 10:35:07 2002 |
| Name: | Lillian Lance-Dinelle |
| E-mail: | ldinelle99@rogers.com |
| Organization: | School Council Chairperson(Ottawa, On/Canada) |
| Location: | Ottawa |
| How the site was found: | Heard Alfie speak in Ottawa |
| Comments: | Keep talking!
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| Date: | Tue Apr 9 09:43:48 2002 |
| Name: | Philip Way |
| E-mail: | phil.way@sympatico.ca |
| Organization: | Progammer/Analyst at Govt. |
| Location: | Ottawa |
| How the site was found: | On handout at presentation given by Alfie |
| Comments: | The purpose of education is to prepare the cognitive elite
for positions of power in a meritocracy (i.e. USA). Your theories apply
coginitive abuse to those who are the best and brightest. We aren't equal.
Get over it. http://www.magnolia.net/~leonf/common/equality.html
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| Date: | Mon Apr 8 18:22:11 2002 |
| Name: | Kristi |
| E-mail: | kristimb20@aol.com |
| Organization: | PHM Schools - student teacher |
| Location: | Mishawaka, Indiana |
| How the site was found: | searching for a comparable philosophy of education |
| Comments: | I would like to personally thank you for having the
strength to voice your opinions about the current status of education. I
found your September 11th article particularly wonderful and it felt good
to see many of the thoughts I've had (thoughts that people have told me to
keep to myself so as to not offend anyone) put down on paper. Finally a
TEACHER that gives our kids some credit. Thank you for helping solidify my
current view of where education is and where I want to take it in my
classroom.
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| Date: | Sun Apr 7 21:52:31 2002 |
| Name: | Vicki Rashbaum |
| E-mail: | vmamacita@aol.com |
| Organization: | Barnard School |
| Location: | New Rochelle, NY |
| How the site was found: | heard Alfie Kohn at Lesley College, June 2001 |
| Comments: | everyone who works in a school and cares about children's
minds should hear and really listen to what Alfie Kohn has to say. We all
need to wake up and feel uncomfortable...and look for new ways to
stimulate children's thinking and decision making.
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| Date: | Sat Apr 6 22:27:55 2002 |
| Name: | Leonard Rifas |
| E-mail: | rifas@qwest.net |
| Organization: | EduComics |
| Location: | Seattle, Washington, USA |
| How the site was found: | [See below] |
| Comments: | Found your site through doing a websearch on "the issue is
not" (for an assignment on how ideologies are formed by making and
breaking connections between ideas.) This brought me to "Grading: The
Issue is Not How but Why." I love your wonderful book on competition, _No
Contest_, which I read some years ago.
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| Date: | Thu Apr 4 20:21:11 2002 |
| Name: | Jerome Rogauskas |
| E-mail: | rogauskas@yahoo.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: | |
| Comments: | just started reading your book. Its an affirmation of my
gut instincts.
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| Date: | Thu Apr 4 06:32:56 2002 |
| Name: | Grace Gibbons |
| E-mail: | nygrace@aol.com |
| Organization: | Parent, elem. ed student |
| Location: | Northern Dutchess County, New York |
| How the site was found: | Books |
| Comments: | I sputter, stutter, get angry and cry. Then I read Alfie
Kohn (and some others) and find the words. I am hoping to find others in
the area who are like minded. Not only am I often feeling alone in my
thinking, but I'd like to do something for my own kids and others'. Where
can I turn?
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| Date: | Wed Apr 3 18:40:21 2002 |
| Name: | Laura Holson |
| E-mail: | LHOLSON@aol.com |
| Organization: | North East ISD |
| Location: | San Antonio, TX |
| How the site was found: | a colleague's recommendation |
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| Date: | Wed Apr 3 12:18:02 2002 |
| Name: | Sue Skahill |
| E-mail: | SueMaeg@aol.com |
| Organization: | Governors State Univ. |
| Location: | University Park, IL |
| How the site was found: | professor |
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