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Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Amethyst King
Read More: Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Amethyst King“I’ve learned a lot about respecting [students’] boundaries and finding ways for students to contribute that aren’t verbal, but I do still believe that being able to articulate…
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Remember Computer Labs? Today’s kids need Conversation Labs.
Read More: Remember Computer Labs? Today’s kids need Conversation Labs.Today’s students may not need computer labs, but they do need the opposite. What if schools had spaces dedicated to teaching digital natives how to talk – and…
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The New “Social Skills”
Read More: The New “Social Skills”Educators work on social skills every day; students use social media all day. What does it mean to equip them for the futures they hope for?
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Office Hours: 30 Minutes with Alexis Wiggins
Read More: Office Hours: 30 Minutes with Alexis Wiggins“When I considered my values or goals for discussion, I realized that my goal wasn’t to have kids speak more, but to encourage them to ask questions, to…
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Co-Creating Courses with Students? It’s possible.
Read More: Co-Creating Courses with Students? It’s possible.A study of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges inspires us to imagine co-creating curriculum with our students.
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Thinking More Deeply about the Present Moment
Read More: Thinking More Deeply about the Present MomentPreparing to teach on climate change, bias, and Afghanistan this fall.
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Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Chris White
Read More: Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Chris White“We don’t “team teach” but we’re on each other’s team, if that makes sense.”
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Networks for Deeper Learning
Read More: Networks for Deeper LearningHernández, Laura E. and Linda Darling-Hammond, Deeper Learning Networks: Taking Student-Centered Learning and Equity to Scale. This week’s Footnotes focuses on Hernández and Darling-Hammond’s 2019 report on deeper…
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Critical Consumption Beyond the Syllabus
Read More: Critical Consumption Beyond the SyllabusThree resources to offer how students can critique their world.
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Protagonists: 20 minutes with Will Rehrig
Read More: Protagonists: 20 minutes with Will Rehrig“In Chemistry, anytime you can get students to do chemistry themselves, it’s like magic, and then when they’re explaining and they realize they can understand why it’s happening,…