EdBlog alert: PBS Teacher Lounge

A relatively new blog has come onto the scene for education and is housed on a trusted site: PBS. It is the Teacher Lounge on the PBS NewsHour tab and is currently driven by educators who have important news or strong, fact-based opinions to share.

The most recent piece addresses "Separating Fact from Fiction: The Problems of Teaching North Korea," and is written by Christopher Mazura, a high school teacher from Guilderland Center, New York. Easily read with excellent points, I really like his voice and the varied voices of other writers. I think you will too.

As educators in this fast-paced world, we not only should but we need to stay abreast of all of the many voices whose expertise opens our eyes to the world. If we stay in our insular spaces with our heads down, we are doomed to not bring the best to our students no matter their age (or ours).

The places we seek these voices are as critical as the time we take to engage and read. For as much as I love Google and Yahoo and other such sites, educational blogs nested on such quality websites as PBS have earned our trust and connections, and beg us to accept our responsibility to share those things which are contemporary and educationally sound, and evoke our deeper learning and that of our students.

Let me know what you think. This blog is definitely growing.