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Street Corner Coaching: An Overview of How To Approach Assessment in Teaching
Assessment can intimidate even the most seasoned educators. Teachers often express to me that they…
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Listen & Watch
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History + Politics
Emergency Teacher Warning of the 1940s
It’s hard to believe that a video like this was conceived, commissioned, produced, and watched. But it was. It’s also…
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Charter Schools
Nikole Hannah-Jones on How Schools Are Re-Segregating
It’s not enough to adopt new standards, to open new school models, to use technology, or even to pass laws. American…
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Arts + Letters
If School Music Instruments Can Play Metallica, There’s Hope for Public Education
You might not think much of classroom music instruments, but give them to the Roots and Metallica and watch what…
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Private Sector
Sal Khan on How Video Can Transform Education
I do a lot of work at the intersection of technology and education. In fact, one could argue that all…
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Instruction
What Do We Know about Literacy in the Content-Areas? Eavesdrop on These Experts to Find Out.
Literacy belongs to all teachers, regardless of the grade and subject you teach. Still, it can be challenging to understand…
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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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Health + Nutrition
Lunch as a Required Course of Study
How Japanese schools approach lunch is eye-opening, especially as many conversations about public education are reduced to narrowly defined academics.…
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Arts + Letters
The Strange Tale of Merriam-Webster’s Ghost Word
Merriam-Webster is redefining the role of the dictionary in the 21st century. If you don’t follow them on Twitter, I…
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Arts + Letters
Saba Talking about Kendrick Lamar’s Verses is How I Dream of Students Talking About Literature
There’s so much we can learn about teaching literature–and much more–by watching the way artists talk about each other’s work.…
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Everyone Teaches Writing
Why Computer Science?
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Computer Science Education
Brave, Not Perfect: A Message to Girls Around the World
You ever notice how young and quickly the color pink becomes associated with femininity? I…
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To Your Health
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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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Back When They Sold Tonics to Cure Teachers’ “Mental and Nervous Exhaustion”
You know, sometimes you come across an old advertisement that you can’t believe is real. Yet here it is from…
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Civics
Food for the Brain–Really
We don’t talk enough about nutrition in education. I don’t mean nutrition curricula, which is also important. I mean we…
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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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Charter Schools
A Defense of Charter Schools
Charter schools received much criticism over the last several years–most recently by John Oliver in a viral segment–as the Obama…
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Health + Nutrition
All I’m saying is That When Parents Tried School Lunches a Meatball Actually Bounced
I once mused to a friend that if policymakers did nothing other than improve the quality of food served to…
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