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.  

While other journals and websites have taken on some of our qualities, we continue to be the only venue we know of that publishes truly creative edgy material about education, and we have also launched some exciting new facets of our site.

FacultyChat is a blog-style discussion led by former writers and invited guests. These postings will discuss important (and not so important issues) in education policy, classroom practice and teacher life. Hopefully, these postings will be food for further discussion with readers adding their thoughts and responses to the entries. These entries will appear as they are posted by our different writers, but if you want to find the work of a specific writer, you can go to Our Writers to get their work or to see more about them.

While we are excited about the discussion that will come out of the postings, we are just as excited about the potential for our Community section. In this area, individuals will be able to create individual pages, start their own blogs, build social networks with educators from around the world by participating in their own discussion groups with colleagues they invite. Sure, there are plenty of education blogs out there that can be found using del.i.cious and other means, but we think the potential of having all of these different searchable individuals and discussions under one umbrella has great potential for bringing educators together and for sharing ideas and experiences.

And that is not all…

The Shack-worthy Blogs section will give you RSS feeds from FacultyShack’s favorite blogs and web-sites. Check in every now and then to see your own culled education information center without having to be on yet another mailing list.

If you want to raise a concern of your own, go to the Chewing the Fat section which will lead you to a discussion board area housed in the Community section.

Looking for FacultyShack gear and gifts? Check out our Shack Shopping center which should be up and running soon.

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 postings (which can be printed in a less-blindness-inducing-format), and most importantly, if the spirit moves you, respond to the articles and postings we have, share your thoughts on the discussion board or submit some of your own writing.

And PLEASE, PLEASE spread the word. Our work is a labor of love by the participants in the discussions, the writers of the articles (although first-time journal writers do get a sharp-looking FacultyShack T-shirt), and the readers who get involved in the discussions. We have no advertising budget (although we are working on getting 5013C status in order to hustle up some grant money).

Thank you,

Dan Mindich
Editor
FacultyShack

FacultyShack Staff:

Editor:
Dan Mindich

Contributing Editors:
Kim Chase
John Cheever
Jennifer Ciardelli
Brian Dunlap
Timothy Dyke
Lyn Fairchild
Sam Intrator
Gordon Jack
Andy Knote
Gary Lichtenstein
Greg Puppione
Galen Rosenberg
Eric Savelson
Bruce Schauble
Jim Shields
Becky Wigglesworth