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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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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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English Language Learning
An Opera Singer Shares His Secret to Learning Languages
So much of learning and teaching occurs through language. The more we understand the contours of languages–not just traditional languages…
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History + Politics
See the Golden Days of Teacher Preparation
Did you know that all struggling teachers have to do is spend less time reading and more time socializing? According…
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Equity
Teach FM: What the College Admissions Scandal Teaches Us About Equity and Education
In this week’s episode, I examine what the recent college admissions scandal reveals about equity and education more broadly in…
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Health + Nutrition
Love the Teenager in Your Life? Know Their Brain.
When working with secondary education teachers, I often find myself reminding them that while teaching teenagers can be challenging on…
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Civics
Failing Systems, Complex Fix
Love this brief talk by Dr. Kara S. Finnigan at University of Rochester. She talks about the pitfall of trying to…
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Culture
♡ for Teachers
Love for teachers takes many forms, including the kind of fast-paced, twisted, and misogynistic kind of love doled out by…
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Computer Science Education
Step It Up: Girls Who Learn to Code Through Dance
Dance and coding might seem like an odd pairing, but in fact they go together gloriously. One of the core…
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Culture
Harry Potter Teaches Us How Meaning is Socially Constructed
It’s a great clip to use for exploring how meaning is socially constructed. From Harry Potter and the Chamber of…
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Everyone Teaches Writing
Why Computer Science?
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Computer Science Education
Snap Circuits Battle: A Two-Hour Tournament to Learn As Much As We Can About How Circuits Work
You take a smart STEM toy like Snap Circuits. Mix it with some game theory.…
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To Your Health
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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
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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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
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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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
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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