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I’ve been working on a series of backdrops and props for the Bushwackers Drum & Bugle Corps 2018 show based on the artwork and life of Pablo Picasso. Above are panels inspired by his Blue Period, Cubism, and Rose Period. Each individual panel is 9′ wide x 7′ tall. More to follow! *Photos courtesy of Jim Dugan
Today I’m talking with Thomas Halpin, a master violinist and teacher. Halpin has concertized throughout the U.S. and abroad—yet for more than four decades he has focused on teaching.
Newest episode of the podcast, you guys! Lemme know what you think. Lots of great music on this one.
My conversation with Maureen Mazzarese, an expert in social and emotional development. A therapist and counselor with four decades of experience, Maureen has worked with kids and parents of all ages, but this conversation focuses on adolescence--and the particular challenges it can present. We
Of special interest to parents, this will be good for teachers, counselors, administrators, employers, and friends of teens too. Holla back!
A quick trip through some ideas about writing that I personally would like to live forever—a companion to last month’s crowdsourced theme “The Idea about Writing You Most Want to Die” that I discussed with that brilliant panel of educators at Bread Loaf (004).
Here’s the quick companion to August’s episode that a number of you asked for. Thanks for your feedback! Keep it coming!
Vladimir Nabokov’s annotated copy of The Metamorphosis.
Loved using selections from Nobokov’s version in my Kafka unit. Thanks for posting!
A writer is somebody who tries to tell the truth, right? And your value to your society is a certain willingness to risk being honest. And so to be honest … this was part of the general job, as I see it.
John Updike, speaking with Terry Gross in 1989 (via nprfreshair)
Five-paragraph essays. Writing for the teacher only. That careful writing is for English compositions but not lab reports. That there's a formula for "good" writing. What is the idea about writing (or the teaching of writing) you'd most like to die? For this episode, a panel of curre
Latest episode of the podcast. Holla back, friends!
Paula Roy is the teaching supervisor who hired me to work at Westfield High School in New Jersey in 1997. In our conversation, we talk about the possibilities and the challenge of supervising teachers; how to establish a safe, yet challenging space for classroom discussion; why sarcasm doesn't
New episode of the Point of Learning podcast (with Peter Horn--not Pete Hall (yes, I know that’s really close, and I’m sorry about it)). Thanks in advance for subscribing through iTunes and/or the Point of Learning YouTube channel.
Documentary Reveals The ‘Dirty Tricks’ Of One Of Trump’s Closest Political Advisers
Director Morgan Pehme on why he wanted to make a documentary about political operative and Trump adviser Roger Stone:
“We thought his life was an extraordinary lens to talk about how our politics has transformed since Watergate, and that we could trace the degradation of our politics through Roger’s deeds and misdeeds. Roger is such an incredibly colorful, over-the-top character that we felt that he could draw in people who weren’t even interested in politics, to hear a story that was enormously important in understanding our politics. That’s what got us on the trail with Roger, but we never would’ve expected that it would end with Roger at the apex of his extraordinary life and career having completed his 29-year-old what seemed like a quixotic quest to elect Donald Trump to the presidency.”
I love the project of trying to draw in folks who aren’t interested in politics by depicting someone so unbelievable. And then showing people what happens when we aren’t interested in politics ...
The first time I saw this picture I joked: “Oh, some comedy person is having fun with photoshop. LOL.”
*then someone messaged me* “No, Sharon, this is a thing that actually happened on live television.”
Me:
I’m over there hiding in the bushes. Looking for the Bushes, actually.
A Trump administration official is facing intense scrutiny for saying in an interview that most sexual assault accusations on college campuses come after drunken hookups and bad breakups.
Candice Jackson, the official in question, organized listening sessions as part of an administration effort to reshape Obama-era directives about handling sexual assault investigations at college campuses nationwide.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (AP) and acting assistant secretary for civil rights Candice Jackson (Pepperdine University).
Many investigations don’t reveal “that these accused students overrode the will of a young woman,” said Jackson, whose office tracks Title IX violations, in the interview.
“Rather, the accusations — 90 percent of them — fall into the category of ‘we were both drunk,’ ‘we broke up, and six months later I found myself under a Title IX investigation because she just decided that our last sleeping together was not quite right,’ ” Jackson said.
After backlash from victims’ advocates, Jackson later issued an apology.
She said in the statement that she is a rape survivor and “would never seek to diminish anyone’s experience.”
Read the rest of the story: Trump official apologizes for saying most campus sexual assault accusations come after drunken sex, breakups
Very grateful for The Washington Post this year!
What now Tumblr? A new podcast in town!
Hey gang, it’s been a minute! For a little while the ol’ microblog here has taken a back seat to other projects, but I’m looking to get back on the horse! My new podcast is called Point of Learning (that’s with me, Peter Horn, not the New Zealand original with Pete Hall). It’s about what and how and why we learn--for anybody interested in those things. So yep, def for educators, but not just for educators.
The July episode will be out soon. Linked above (and below) is from June: “School and Civil Discourse.” The idea is that we’re pretty bad and talking to and listening to each other--you know, as a country. Also, school can help, if we let it. More than a few ideas on the subject from this conversation with my former boss, a veteran high school principal who passionately advocated for freedom of thought and speech in school.
There’s also a YouTube channel, if you go that way.
Thanks in advance for any feedback! Rock on!
[”Summertimes” illustration by Al Morales.]
And the Public’s mission is to say that the culture belongs to everybody, needs to belong to everybody. To say that art has something to say about the great civic issues of our time and to say that, like drama, democracy depends on the conflict of different points of view. Nobody owns the truth. We all own the culture.
Oskar Eustis, director of The Public Theater’s production of Julius Caesar
Needed: Windows for Black Students
Not sure why it’s taken me this long to get around to reading Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama’s remarkable 1995 memoir, but I’ve been loving it the past few days. There’s lots I might write about it: how good it feels to recall so thoughtful a person leading our country; how important it might be to share this book with students figuring out what it means to be citizens ...
In the birthday week of former colleague Emily Jane Style, whose 1988 essay “Curriculum as Window & Mirror” changed the game for so many educators, I share the passage from Obama’s Chicago section, in which a high school guidance counselor called Asante Moran makes the case for curricular mirrors:
“Just think about what a real education for [black] children would involve. It would start by giving a child an understanding of himself, his world, his culture, his community. That’s the starting point of any educational process. That’s what makes a child hungry to learn--the promise of being part of something, of mastering his environment. But for the black child, everything’s turned upside down. From day one, what’s he learning about? Someone else’s history. Someone else’s culture. Not only that, this culture he’s supposed to learn is the same culture that’s systematically rejected him, denied his humanity.” (p. 258)
My post on Style’s essay gives Cliff’s Notes on her concept of what’s at stake for everybody as a result of the tradition Moran identifies in U.S. education.
GINNY HAYES, INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMAN
I was 3 when we moved to Buffalo in 1978. The part I liked best was my new next-door neighbor Ginny, who quickly became a surrogate grandma. She was kind and smart and totally fun. I also loved that when I got to be about 5, she saw no reason I should not learn a little Latin.
Because I saw her write “i.e.” on a note—or maybe “e.g.,” I forget—she explained both of these abbreviations, translating “id est” and “exempli gratia” for me as she wrote them down. (Fourteen years later, I decided to major in Classics.)
One hundred and two years ago this coming Saturday, Virginia Allan was born into a generation of upper-middle-class women for whom teaching was one of the few acceptable occupations outside of motherhood. Convinced that young people were capable of learning a good deal more than most adults believed, Virginia Allan Hayes became an amazing elementary school teacher.
When she died in 2002, I was writing poetry pretty regularly. The sonnet form felt right to try to present the warmth she nurtured within the constraints of social expectations. It’s maybe a bit more sentimental and artificial than I’d like, but that third quatrain really does describe something cool about multiples of 9.
Whether she showed me how to make a salad or how to win and lose at cards gracefully, I realize that Ginny was educating me during most of the time we interacted. She reinforced everything I was internalizing next door about the value of reading and writing the world.
Sonnet for Ginny
Each Monday brought our special world of two.
While Mom was out, I played with you next door—
Soft cookies, Diet Coke, and toys in store;
Routines we loved, and often something new.
At Spite and Malice, rummy straight and gin,
For hours we’d sit with decoy playing cards
Me never seeing why the games weren’t hard;
I beamed, while slyly losing you would grin.
And you who knew such wild multiplication—
Two numbered columns ranging naught to nine,
The second running upside-down the line—
Would love to push my young imagination.
The life you nurtured knows no way to end,
My second grandma, playmate, teacher, friend.
[Photo collage from a scrapbook page by my mother, Gretchen Brand.]
What We Need
by David Budbill
The Emperor,
his bullies
and henchmen,
terrorize the world
every day
which is why
every day
we need
a little poem
of kindness,
a small song
of peace,
a brief moment
of joy.
[Photo of David Budbill with his shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute, by Jeb Wallace-Brodeur. Budbill was an activist, poet, musician, and playwright who died last September. This poem arrived via the February 2017 issue of The Sun which featured a tribute to Budbill. Though the poem was originally published in 2005, it feels plenty poignant today.]
3 More Ways for Students to Engage as Citizens.
Writing last week about the flood of news spilling from the White House, I proposed choosing one issue to focus on. Rather than getting swept away by executive orders, shocking statements, and outlandish Tweets from all quarters (including @realFredDoug), let’s all grab just one single topic that we’re passionate about.
My big issue is education, so the blog this week shares ways educators and students can find that topic. As written, the suggestions are best suited for high school students, but they could certainly be adapted for younger kids. (Reply or Tweet @HornEdSpeak if you want to discuss.)
With all of these, it’s good to remember that teenagers’ sense of justice tends to be acute, and they are often just beginning to sort out what they believe about lots of things. As I’ve mentioned in this space, instructional focus needs to be on how to think—not what to think. Classrooms need to be spaces where all points of view—including the teacher’s—are subject to respectful challenge.
Letter from a citizen. A favorite assignment from when I was teaching high school English asked students to research a current event of their choice so they could write a well-informed letter to an elected representative expressing their views. (Whether they actually sent it or not was also their choice.) This exercise in citizenship also provides an authentic opportunity for each of these skills: critical thinking, using reputable sources for research, persuasive writing, proofreading, and—relevant for a little while longer, at least—formatting a formal letter.
The two resources below come from WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show’s excellent segment on social activism yesterday.
Countable is a smartphone app designed to “make it quick and easy to understand the laws Congress is considering.” Once the iOS or Android version is downloaded, you can easily contact your lawmaker to tell them how you’d like them to vote on bills. (There’s also a pretty cool option to produce a video message.) In summarizing current legislation, editors take pains to maintain a non-partisan stance. (During the Lopate show, Alex Kouts, the chief product officer, reasoned that Countable does a pretty good job staying in the middle of the road because he regularly hears from people on the Left that the platform skews conservative and from people on the Right that it skews liberal.)
Idealist is a website founded by Ami Dar, who has been working for decades to try to match people with organizations, ideas, and resources that will allow them to take action. The vision: “To help build a world where all people can lead free and dignified lives by making sure that no opportunity for action or collaboration is missed or wasted.” The 1.4 million monthly visitors to the website are able connect to over 122,000 organizations. For teachers of Spanish or French—or teachers serving Spanish- or French-speaking populations—looking to develop a class project, Idealist maintains Spanish and French editions of the site.
[Image from Ghostwritings.net]
