A few blogs – including Ed Week’s “Reality Check” – have recently repeated a Fast Company story that mistakenly reported that Bill Gates wants to put a camera in every classroom. The piece (since corrected) covered the filming of a TED talk on effective teaching that Bill taped last month and that will air tonight on PBS.

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When I think about my years in school, I remember my teachers more than I do the classes I took or the books I read. In particular, there are a few teachers whose lessons I still carry with me today.

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Today marks the start of National Teacher Appreciation Week – a great opportunity to show teachers how much they matter to us.

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I spent two years teaching in a diverse, high-poverty school on the northwest side of Chicago. And I was fortunate enough to say that even with the incredible growth my students showed in my classroom—in my second year, students averaged more than four years of growth—I was not the best teacher in the building.

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