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Street Corner Coaching: An Overview of How To Approach Assessment in Teaching
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Maurice Sendak’s Thoughts on Childhood Might Make You a Better Teacher and Parent
The author of Where the Wild Things Are talks about childhood–it’s real, raw, and truer than I’ve ever admitted. As…
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History + Politics
Remember that Teacher Shortage Crisis? It’s Not What You Think
It’s not that there is a shortage of teachers, actually. The problem is that teachers leave the profession in droves…
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Teachers Need to Watch this Video About Stress and Learning–For Themselves and For Their Students
This video about stress and the brain should be required viewing for all teachers. As you watch it, think about…
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Culture
Developing Youth Literacies, Loving the Disciplines
The great literacy researcher Elizabeth Birr Moje of University of Michigan delivers this TED-style talk at an educational research conference.…
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Film
To Teach or Not To Teach like a Dead Poet?
I love this clip from Dead Poets Society for many reasons. First, it cuts the the essence of pedagogy: does…
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Assessment
How the Need for Education Reform Was Framed in New York State
It’s important to observe how the need for education reform is framed. There are always loud advocates for both sides…
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Arts + Letters
Words like Water: How a Baby Learned to Speak
You take a techy who becomes a dad and has a fascination with language. Then add videocameras all throughout the…
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Computer Science Education
Stop Teaching Computer Science. Start “Embedding” It.
I’ve said it before: if we are serious about teaching computer science in K-12 schools, we have to reimagine how…
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Culture
Mr. Miyagi Shows Us All What Learning Is
Where do you put Mr. Miyagi in a list of great teachers? Top ten? This is a scene that, for me,…
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Everyone Teaches Writing
Why Computer Science?
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Computer Science Education
Here’s that Map of Computer Science You Were Looking For
If we’ve worked together you know I like me a visual. There are simply things…
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Civics
Cafeteria Food & Race
Listen to this episode Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast series Revisionist History, where he looks at how two universities’ decisions to serve particular…
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Health + Nutrition
Immaturity is an Incredible Asset for Learning, Dewey Wrote
I’ve been listening to an audiobook of John Dewey’s classic Democracy in Education [free here]. Listening to his work is…
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Health + Nutrition
Teaching Kids About Food to Save Their Lives with Jamie Oliver
Nutrition is something schools have mostly addressed with a requisite health class. Chef Jamie Oliver says that we have to…
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Pop Culture
Drink and Learn: The Fine Pedagogy of Wine Folly
I am blown away by how well the team at Wine Folly help the broader world learn about wine. Honestly.…
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Health + Nutrition
You Are What You Eat (in School)
Nutrition is one of those issues that gets left out of conversations about education too often. If we step back…
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Health + Nutrition
Learning as Life-Giving
Spirituality and education are not often used in the same breath today, but perhaps they should be. Parker Palmer wrote…
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