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Why I Do What I Do

May 11, 2012 | By Kirstie Truluck | Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

I must borrow this title line from Malcolm Gauld so I can tell you a story that makes me smile. Not many students these days know my favorite old band, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Fewer still know the melancholy and romantic melody of the band’s tune Helplessly Hoping. However, this spring a student chose this [...]

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Humility & True Teaching

May 01, 2012 | By Kirstie Truluck | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

This piece is a reflection by rookie Hyde teacher Alex Smith. Read on to enjoy a teaching moment he experienced during his Algebra II class.

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BK, Truth & Writing

March 03, 2012 | By Kirstie Truluck | Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

“I haven’t been honest with people,” said the senior who had been charged with a leadership position in the class. But this was no ethical transgression or sneaky behavior. This young man was an excellent critical editor who had volunteered to edit the English class’ anthology. He realized, as the revision project wound to [...]

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Kirstie Truluck: More Metaphor for Learning

January 17, 2012 | By Kirstie Truluck | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

“How do you get songs on your iPod?” That was the opening question for a lesson on notes and organization led by master Hyde School teacher John Romac. The metaphor of the familiar iPod can help students break down and analyze what they do daily and how to apply the same methods to the content [...]

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Kirstie Truluck: Character Education in the Writing Classroom

January 04, 2012 | By Kirstie Truluck | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

I once worked with a boy in English 11 who illustrated for me his inability to tell the truth through his academic writing. It wasn’t that he lied about a paper, or plagiarized. No. I witnessed a more fundamental link between a student’s character capacity for integrity and his ability to write well in school. [...]

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Performing Arts Show: Bath, 2011

April 19, 2011 | By Kirstie Truluck | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

The Hyde School community – students and faculty – performed their annual Spring Family Weekend show for parents on Saturday, April 16th. The show honored Hyde’s past by performing numbers from Hyde’s 1976 Bicentennial show “America’s Spirit.” The show also featured original music, student choreography, and the traditional large group numbers that are hallmarks of [...]

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Who holds you accountable?

April 12, 2011 | By Kirstie Truluck | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

Our school has a rather difficult (if not always definitive) discipline policy. We do not operate on a “three strikes- you’re out” policy, nor do we assign accountability according to a menu – no “if you do this, then you get this.” Yesterday a conversation with a student reminded me about the important difference between [...]

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What I Learned in San Francisco

April 05, 2011 | By Kirstie Truluck | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

This year’s conference for the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) took place in San Francisco where spring has sprung and it never snows. I felt right at home with the flowers and green grass. I also enjoyed sharing with and learning from a group of professionals committed to the ASCD motto of Learn. Teach. Lead.

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ASCD 2011 Character is Foundational

April 02, 2011 | By Kirstie Truluck | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog, Uncategorized

For a second year, I presented on the concept of character education at the national conference of the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). This year we had a better time slot and an interested crowd of public school teachers and administrators – leaders all. The thrust of our argument this year was that you [...]

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Public / Private

November 07, 2010 | By Kirstie Truluck | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

“Can I confront in public?” asked my colleague. “Sometimes I think we need to.” Despite my own misstep, I agree. I feel blessed that sharing my story about a public confrontation gone wrong has helped stimulate conversation and questions, but this colleague’s question makes me want to clarify the message. I engaged the wrong kid, [...]

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Student Centered

November 05, 2010 | By Kirstie Truluck | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

A colleague of mine popped her head into my office to thank me for some time I spent observing in and brainstorming about her class. She shared her relief that “things are better” after a few weeks of wild and wiggly sophomore boys disrupting the learning environment in her biology class. “What has made the [...]

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Yes & No at Once?

November 05, 2010 | By Kirstie Truluck | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

When I directed the Performing Arts program for Hyde School, I worked hard to connect the development of performance skills to the development of character. I defined the content skills of Performing Art as “body, voice, stage.” Translated, that means that students needed to learn how to make best use of their bodies, their voices, [...]

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Living with Paradox

September 29, 2010 | By Kirstie Truluck | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

Raising children requires me to live in the tension between life’s natural paradoxes. A paradox happens when two separate and opposing life truths are in simultaneous operation in one day in my life. Yesterday I picked up my daughter from school. As I heaved her 20 lb. backpack (no lie, I weighed it) into the [...]

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5-minute AICR cycle

May 13, 2010 | By Kirstie Truluck | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

In May 2004, the NCTE published a Position/Action statement outlining what teachers of adolescents need to know about adolescent literacy. I found myself reading, as I always do, with a pencil in my hand – asking questions, summarizing ideas, and making connections. I made a connection to both our work in senior English and to [...]

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Othello meets Eno

May 06, 2010 | By Kirstie Truluck | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

Today was a win-win-win day for Shakespeare’s Othello, Eno board technology, and wiggly students.

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