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"I ask that you put yourself in the shoes of black and brown children growing up in a world where they see videos of their classmate’s father shot and bleeding in the street."
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Great list of strategies teachers can use to help introverts speak up in the classroom: https://t.co/GuHUmbtb4b
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Stories of EdTech Innovation and #GoOpen districts from the Office of Ed Tech
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Imposrtant nsight from a black educator on what it feels like to be a black educator amid all of the national unrest around police shootings of unarmed black men.
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From the Hechinger Report re: higher ed. - “The reason we don’t have more faculty of color among college faculty is that we don’t want them. We simply don’t want them.”
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From Charles Pierce - "If Massachusetts has done charters better than, say, Ohio or Florida, it is because the state has exercised the excellent, rigorous oversight that he mentions, and the cap has been an essential part of that oversight. The current campaign to eliminate the cap is not being done to benefit poor children. It is being waged to benefit the charter school industry, which wants to demolish that excellent, rigorous oversight with which Chait claims to be so impressed because it stands in the way of that industry's profits."
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Classic stupid s***. Could have written the same thing about books in school in 1880. @TIME https://t.co/Jxom3ERZWX
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The "how-to" to writing how-to texts | great tutorial for teachers and students! #TeachWriting https://t.co/xUdz1uqBfw
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I love this list.... https://t.co/eMyn2RdxSl
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Fourteen schools in Texas and Oklahoma are giving students more access to recess though the LiiNK Project, developed at Texas Christian University.
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PARCC is doing some deep soul-searching, with its future at stake. It’s figuring out how it should reorganize to survive the coming years, and who should run it.
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The disaster in devaluing the arts in schools is directly connected to the educational culture around the fear of being wrong. Students become so conditioned to target correct answers that creative pursuits become increasingly the most challenging situations to be choosing.
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This is the home-page for a website about... educational strategies that can help students improve their problem-solving skills in all areas of life.
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The Opportunity by Design initiative offers a roadmap for communities that want to embark on this mission. Since it was launched in 2013, Opportunity by Design has helped seven urban school districts create 12 small high schools that reflect the communities’ ideas and priorities. Five more such schools are on the way. As unique as each of these schools is, they all incorporate 10 broad principles that we believe to be key to their success. Three are particularly vital.
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An online library of free literary and informational texts, CommonLit helps teachers quickly locate leveled texts that fit into a lesson or unit, assess student understanding, generate discussion, and even pair the texts with other media, all in one free platform. It’s an ideal tool for grades 5-12 but would also work for advanced students in the lower grades.
Sunday, September 25, 2016
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (September 25, 2016)
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