Paul Allison

Paul Allison has been been teaching ever since he graduated from Hunter College, CUNY in 1983. After a few years in the desert (Utah), and a couple of years at the High School of Art and Design, NYC, he had a wonderful dozen years at University Heights Secondary School, Bronx, NY, where he learned that doing school better didn’t have to be the same-old, with more effort. After that, Paul worked with English Language Learners at the International High School in Queens for three years.

After 9/11, there was a lot of talk about doing meaningful work. At the same time, Paul was finding himself being seduced by new forms of literacy on the Internet. An opportunity to become a “studio teacher” of technology at East Side Community High School, NYC presented itself in the Summer of 2002, and Paul has been at ESCHS ever since.

Another community that Paul is a part of is the New York City Writing Project. He was a participant in the NYCWP’s Summer Invitational in 1985, and he has worked for the NYCWP in various ways ever since. Currently, with Felicia George, Paul is the NYC Technology Liaison for the National Writing Project.


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Collaborating in the Bering Sea - TTT101 - 04.23.08

Download Collaborating in the Bering Sea - TTT101 - 04.23.08 On this podcast Susan Ettenheim and Paul Allison are joined by John Concilus, Director of Educational Technology, and a student from one of the schools in the Bering Strait School District. John introduced himself a few weeks ago by responding to an earlier podcast with [...]

Making Space on Youth Twitter - TTT100 - 04.16.08

Download Making Space on Youth Twitter - TTT100 - 04.16.08 Just before the second issue of Space was published, Susan Ettenheim and Paul Allison, from the New York City Writing Project, were joined by: Kevin Hodgson, a sixth grade teacher from the Western Massachusetts Writing Project George Mayo, an 8th grade teacher from Maryland, and one of [...]

From elgg to Drupal? TTT99 - 04.09.08

Download From elgg to Drupal? TTT99 - 04.09.08 For this webcast, we invited Bill Fitzgerald, Dave Cormier and Gail Desler to talk about social networking and what platforms make sense right now. Of course behind all of this talk about Drupal and Edublogs were questions that we are asking about about how we in [...]

Learning to be Unschooly - TTT98 - 04.02.08

Download Learning to be Unschooly - TTT98 - 04.02.08Earlier this month, on Youth Twitter, a student in South Korea, Soojin wrote, “just my opinion about youthtwitter: schooly. concrete.” A bit later, Hannah, a student in Philadelphia, answered on Youth Twitter, “I think Alan’s survey is a good example of how not to be ’schooly’. Students should [...]

Foxfire for the Firefox Generation - TTT97 - 03.26.08

Download Foxfire for the Firefox Generation - TTT97 - 03.26.08 This podcast begins with a focus on the work of two technology teachers and two students from The Baccalaureate School for Global Education (BSGE) in Astoria, NY. Madeline Brownstone and Shantanu Saha describe their two-year technology curriculum that has students doing global, multimedia projects. Madeline [...]