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This collection includes 101 color cartoon images from Teaching Old Logs New Tricks.

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International Flair
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    • Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
    • Date Created: 2000
    • Description: The cartoon shows a teacher talking with a high school student at a table. Their exchange of words starts with the teacher saying, "So that is your course of study for next year." The student replies, "Well, pardon my French but those courses 'Chez parle stinko vous!'" The teacher says, "That's not French!" The student says, "I know. If you'd let me take some real classes, maybe I could learn French." The tag line reads, "Rodney's self-advocacy takes on a decidedly international flair."
    • Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks


    Shooting In The Dark
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      • Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
      • Date Created: 2000
      • Description: The cartoon shows a dart board in the upper right part of the panel there are 5 darts with suction cup tips heading toward the dart board. Each one has the word "Intervention" written on it with the numbers 1, 2 , 3, 4, or 5. The tag like reads, "Shooting in the dark: What happens when you select interventions without good assessment data."
      • Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks


      Different Values and Eras
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        • Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
        • Date Created: 2000
        • Description: The cartoon shows two men. The man on the left is dressed in colonial era clothing waving a wooden ruler. He says, "That student needs a trip to the woodshed!" The man on the right has long hair is wearing paisley shirt with bell bottom pants and is holding his fingers in a peace sign. He says, "Chill man, we need to do something nonviolent." The tag line reads, "School staff find it challenging to develop a coherent behavior plan when their practices are reflective of different values and eras."
        • Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks


        It's a Jungle Out There!
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          • Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
          • Date Created: 2000
          • Description: The cartoon shows a sign in the front of a classroom room that says, "Welcome to first-year teacher orientation!" A group of first-year are teachers sitting at tables facing a man dressed in safari clothes, pith helmet, high boots, canteen on his shoulder, and a walking stick who is saying, "People, the jungle is a place of great beauty, but also presents many hazards for the uninitiated. You must learn to become one with the jungle and all its inhabitants." One of the new teachers is leaning over to the person next to him and saying, "Does he always dress in character and talk in metaphors?" The person replies, "I don't know, I'm just glad he didn't dress as Tarzan!" The tag line reads, "It's a jungle out there!"
          • Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks


          Hazards
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            • Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
            • Date Created: 2000
            • Description: The cartoon shows a golf course with people playing in all different areas. A player is in a water hazard labeled "Staffing." Another player is a sand trap labeled, "Funding." A third player is stuck in a patch of tall grass labeled, "Service Coordinator." Another is stuck among the trees, labeled "Bureaucracy," and is trying to hit toward the 18th hole. The tag line reads, "The hazards of transition planning are par for the course."
            • Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks


            Trick Question
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              • Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
              • Date Created: 2000
              • Description: The cartoon shows Mr. Moody (a school principal) meeting with a mother. She is saying, "We're trying to decide which school district is best for our daughter. So we want to know what you have: Inclusion? Inclusive Education? Or Full Inclusion?" Mr. Moody replies, "Ohhhh...I get it! It's a trick question right?!?" The tag line reads, "Mr. Moody continues to be befuddled by the lack of clear definition."
              • Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks


              Confusion Reigns
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                • Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
                • Date Created: 2000
                • Description: The cartoon shows a group of five educators standing out in the pouring rain. From left to right they are doing and saying the following: The first person is holding rolled up diplomas and says, "We've got the skills!" The is holding a bunch of carrots and says, "We've got the incentives." The man in the middle is holding a bag of money and says, "We've got the resources!" The next is holding a piece of paper and says, "We've got the plan!" The person on the far right is throwing his hands up in the air while saying, "But where are we headed?" The tag line reads, "Without a vision confusion reigns!"
                • Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks


                Desperate Measures
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                  • Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
                  • Date Created: 2000
                  • Description: The cartoon shows a panel with a banner at the top that says, "Math Standards" bordered on the top and bottom with a variety of math symbols. On the left of the panel is a ruler saying, "So, you're willing to do whatever it takes to meet the standards?" Next to the ruler at the bottom middle of the panel is a measuring cup who is saying, "Just name it we'll do it." and on the right side of the panel is a set square saying, "Please, we'll do anything you say." The tag line reads, "Desperate Measures."
                  • Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks


                  Common Denominator
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                    • Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
                    • Date Created: 2000
                    • Description: The cartoon shows a chalkboard with a complicated equation on it. There is a woman sitting on a chair in front of the chalkboard, she has circled a statement in the denominator of the answer that says, "Kids lives will be better because they went to our school!" She exclaims, "I've Got It!" The tag line reads, "Following fierce figuring and formulating Fern finds the common denominator of quality education."
                    • Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks


                    Raising the Bar
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                      • Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
                      • Date Created: 2000
                      • Description: The cartoon shows a winding path with the word "curriculum" written on it leading to a pole vault bar, with judge standing on either side. Above the bar it says, "standards" and below the bar it says, "assessments." There is a pole vaulter attempting to clear the bar, but he has missed and hit one of the uprights on the side and loudly exclaims, "OUCH!" The tag line reads, "Raising the bar has a chance only when curriculum, assessment and instruction are aligned."
                      • Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks