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Street Corner Coaching: An Overview of How To Approach Assessment in Teaching
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What More Could Sally Ride’s School Have Done to Prepare Her to be an Astronaut?
Listen to this 1983 interview with astronaut Sally Ride by Gloria Steinem. What stands out to me most is both…
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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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Teacher Preparation
Learning Environments are Like Hop Scotch
When thinking about how to design courses or plan lessons, I implore you: watch this video. It’s a timely reminder…
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Equity
Improve Literacy Skills by Focusing on Speaking
I love this speaker series by AERA that features mini-lectures by education researchers. In this video, Dr. Young-Suk Kim makes…
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Arts + Letters
The Boy Who Lived in a Library
StoryCorp’s video memoir of Ronald Clark, who grew up living in the Washington Height’s public library, will make you yearn…
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Elementary Education
Babies Are Like Little Linguistic Statisticians
A thoroughly intriguing talk about the ways babies learn language. Researcher Patricia Kuhl suggests that babies keep track of sounds…
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Culture
Why to Stop What You Are Doing And Watch this Education Film (in French, but still…it has subtitles)
If you have never seen this gorgeous documentary about an elementary school teacher in a little school in rural France,…
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Culture
Disney Made an Anti-Nazi Educational Film, Really
Gone are the days when Disney meant theme parks and anthropomorphic characters retelling story tales. (I’m not sure I ever…
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Writing
Watch Kendrick Lamar Talk About his Composition Process
Different rappers have different composition processes. Some proudly don’t write anything down (Jay-Z, for example) and others are always scribbling…
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Everyone Teaches Writing
Why Computer Science?
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Computer Science Education
Body Electric: How I Am Theorizing the Relationship between Computer Science and the Teaching of Literature
For several years now, I have been slowly building a theoretical case for the interplay…
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To Your Health
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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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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
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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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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This 1950 Instructional Film on “Dining Together” Might Just Save Your Thanksgiving
I don’t know who made these films, but there are many of them online. Called “instructional” or “educational” films, you can…
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Arts + Letters
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum On Liberal Arts Education
Ever since I read her book Not For Profit, I’ve been drawn to University of Chicago professor Martha Nussbaum’s take…
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