Posted Wed, Dec 22, 8:15 a.m.

I think I will repost my response to Mr. Lilly from the original article: Mr. Lilly...you can have an advanced degree in mathematics and still be a lousy teacher. It doesn't matter how much you test a teacher candidate...if you can't teach...if it is not in your blood and soul...you ...

Posted Sat, Nov 20, 5:16 p.m.

Wilbur...to be a top performing elementary classroom or school in the Seattle School District (based on MAP and MSP scores) you need to examine the facts. Here is the basic teacher schedule: Arrive: 7:30 AM Depart: 5:30 PM Eat Dinner Grade Papers or Design Curriculum: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM ...

Posted Wed, Nov 17, 10 a.m.

I said Dorothy Bullitt, not KING Broadcasting. That rational you suggest seems a bit spurious Mr. Holden.

Posted Wed, Nov 17, 6:53 a.m.

Bob...I recall going to some big parties sponsored by Dorothy Bullitt. You were there. Did you always report on the event afterwards or were you just there to say hello to Mike Lowry, Brock Adams, and all the rest of the local pols? Sometimes it it doesn't take a dollar ...

Posted Sun, Nov 7, 2:35 p.m.

"...he can revive enthusiasm in his base..." Sorry Sam...you got this part dead wrong. His base has abandoned him as a centrist, business as usual, corporate shill. Should Obama be challenged in the next election it is likely that a progressive and young voter backlash will rise up and say, ...

Posted Sat, Oct 30, 9:37 a.m.

On a recent backpacking trip I took with two friends, we walked from Snoqualmie Pass to B.C and then back to Mazama. It was your typical PCT hike. The average age of our party was fifty-seven (57). The average age of the hikers we met along the way was also ...

Posted Wed, Oct 27, 7:50 a.m.

How did JB Scott do that photo? It looks like time-lapse from a helicopter (but can't be because the FAA might get a bit unhinged about flying over Belltown). If it is Photoshop I'll accept it as great art. If it is a photo...JB is brilliant. Can I buy a ...

Posted Wed, Oct 13, 6:54 p.m.

Okay...I just want to comment on how friggin' fascinating this article (and its myriad of links) really is (when contrasted with...say...THE TIMES). Please...call me a Northwest Geek (I actually read that weather book from the UW weather geek). In point of fact (not myth), this experience confirms for some of ...

Posted Thu, Sep 2, 9:15 p.m.

Brewster...you haven't read the contract have you? Let's just settle that issue first. If you had read the 35 or so pertinent pages you would realize that the District got nothing in the way of reform, that the rewards are "more work for more pay (if you choose)," and that ...

Posted Wed, Jul 28, 9:28 p.m.

Ahhhh...Jean Godden the expert on tunneling in unconsolidated soils. Let me paint you a picture. Imagine a large-bore tunneling machine stuck in the muck under soils that are prone to liquefaction. It sits there, trapped for several years, while bankruptcy hearings for the prime contractor are sorted out in Federal ...

Posted Wed, May 19, 6:34 p.m.

Woofer for Potentate (Perhaps Apostate?)! No, Emperor! Perhaps even Sainthood. So eloquent...so insightful...OMG I think that I want to run him/her for School Board. He/she takes Mr. Lilly's contentions to their natural and logical apogees. Brilliant...bravo...bravo... Woofer is il Duce...but, what does that make Mr. Lilly?

Posted Wed, May 19, 5:12 p.m.

When I graduated from the U.W. Education Program my first task was to find a dumpster and drop in every textbook I had purchased (for real). What I learned about teaching in that program would not fill a spiral notebook. Teaching is the art of connecting with disparate souls, coalescing ...

Posted Wed, May 19, 6:39 a.m.

Mr. Lilly...you can have an advanced degree in mathematics and still be a lousy teacher. It doesn't matter how much you test a teacher candidate...if you can't teach...if it is not in your blood and soul...you will never be effective. Some of the best teachers I ever had were Korean ...

Posted Wed, Mar 10, 9:33 p.m.

Writers Workshop comes to the Seattle Schools at the expense of solid expository forms of writing. Compare and contrast writing, persuasive essays, business letters, science investigation conclusions, summaries, and retells, all require very specific formats. Writers Workshop supplants these forms in favor of the narrative autobiographic gibberish so popular with ...