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Welcome to FacultyShack
There is plenty of web content for teachers, but if you want interesting looks at teaching life written in non-edese, if you want to laugh at the craziness of the world that we deal with everyday, then FacultyShack is the place for you.
FacultyShack was created by a group of teachers in search of original and insightful ideas on the Internet. Having wasted enough time wading through familiar pass-the-ball name-game ideas and vapid critiques of standardized testing, we decided to create something new.
Our biannual publication provides teachers with a thoughtful and often humorous look at the realities teachers face. The journal also serves as a clearinghouse for new approaches to classroom challenges. Finally, FacultyShack hopes to provide a forum for ongoing discussion of complex educational questions.
Reading the articles is only the beginning, though. All pieces have calls for responses. We take the most thoughtful responses and post them following the articles to which they are responding.
That way if you are a student who thinks it would be funny to write, "Hey, is it 4:20?" or simply "Mr. Mindich sucks" on every page, you will be out of luck. Similarly, if your ideas make no sense, have been represented already or show a fixation with bringing either angels or wicca/Satan into school curriculum, they will probably not be posted.
But, please don't let that warning get in your way. Go ahead, and write us. The goal is to have interesting dialogue around each article but not to have a swamp of list-serve comments.
Right now the FacultyShack community consists of a small group of teachers from all around the country and all around the world who will be writing the articles for the first few quarterly editions of our journal. But, if you have an article idea that you would like to share, please submit it to us.
Eventually, you will be able to pay all of your monthly bills, make long distance phone calls, order meals, and download personalized month long teaching videos from us, but for right now please just enjoy the articles (which can be printed in a less-blindness-inducing-format), and most importantly, if the spirit moves you, respond to the articles we have or write some of your own.
The FacultyShack House Rules:
The word "metacognitive" will never be used in an article.
Though giving students, teachers, parents, administrators, etc. a hard time is part of our mission, we will try to avoid whining while we do it.
There will be no references to "new" concerns like the limits of multiple choice testing.
Articles will not presuppose that the author has all the answers and you are a lost sheep in the vast educational pasture (we will also discourage useless metaphors).
FacultyShack Staff:
Editor:
Dan Mindich
Contributing Editors:
Adam Bunting
Justin Chapman
Lyn Fairchild
Andy Knote
Galen Rosenberg
Art Directors/Consultants:
Tom Funk
Jim Shields
Web Design:
Propeller Media Works
For business questions, links requests or advertising please email us at business@facultyshack.org
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