If you want some food for thought why not try something new? Maybe a taste of America from the teachers’ perspective. I just received this great list of fellow Teacher Leaders Network blogs. It has blogs from TLN members from around the country. They are all by passionate educators who are extremely well informed and active in the profession. Several are folks located here in Virginia.

TLN BLOGS (they appear on our teacherleaders.org website)

Bill Ferriter – The Tempered Radical
http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/the_tempered_radical/

Nancy Flanagan – Teacher in a Strange Land
http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/teacher_in_a_strange_land/

Renee Moore – TeachMoore
http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/teachmoore/

TLN Teacher Voices (excerpts from our daily conversation – group blog)
http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/tln_teacher_voices/

Teacher Leadership Today
(A newsy blog that John Norton keeps)
http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/teacher_leadership_today/

TLN-RELATED BLOGS

Susan Graham – A Place at the Table (Teacher Magazine) (Virginia)
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/place_at_the_table/

Betsy Rogers – Brighton’s Hope (we help with it)
http://tln.typepad.com/tln_betsyrogers/

Barnett Berry – Building the Teaching Profession (at CTQ website)
http://teachingquality.typepad.com/building_the_profession/

OTHER TLNer BLOGS (incomplete list, I’m sure…)

Emmet Rosenfeld – Eduholic (Teacher Magazine) (Virginia)
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/eduholic/

TMAO – Teaching in the 408
http://roomd2.blogspot.com/

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach – 21st Century Collaborative (Virginia)
http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/
Sheryl also group-blogs at TechLearning (she has Sunday)
http://www.techlearning.com/blog/

Dayle Timmons – Timmons Times
http://timmonstimes.blogspot.com/

Cossondra George – Middle School Day by Day
http://cossondra.blogspot.com/

Jennifer Barnett – Reflect to Redirect
http://jenniferbarnett.edublogs.org/

Marsha Ratzel – Reflections of a Techie
http://teachingtechie.typepad.com/learning/

Anne Jolly (new) – Learning Spot
http://jollylearningspot.blogspot.com/

Kitty Boitnott – Her campaign blog for VEA president (Virginia)
http://kittyboitnott.blogspot.com/

Brenda Dyck – Brenda’s Blog (Education World)
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/columnists/dyck/dyck.shtml