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Creating Cavendish Space on a Budget
Cavendish Space: psychologically and sensory safe spaces suited to zone work, flow states, intermittent collaboration, and collaborative niche construction. Cavendish Space – Stimpunks Foundation Our advocacy for Cavendish Space and caves, campfires, and watering holes, prompts questions of how to create Cavendish Space on a budget and in one room. A book we highly recommend is “Multiple…
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Improving Classroom UX with Autistic Flow Patrol
Improving Classroom UX with Autistic Flow Patrol
This small group of autistic pupils from a school in Chile reveal the important insights that can be gained from engaging with children and young people directly on how to facilitate their own educational inclusion (Humphrey & Lewis 2008).
Source: Perspectives on Educational Inclusion from a Small Sample of Autistic Pupils in Santiago, Chile
Via:
https://twitter.com/thewoodbug/status…
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The Flow of Multi-age Learning and Peer Mentoring
The Flow of Multi-age Learning and Peer Mentoring
Time flows differently when children work together, the older becoming aspirational peers for younger children, no bells demanding that they stop what they are doing to move in short blocks of time from math to reading to science to history in a repetitive daily cycle. Instead, they work on projects that engage them in experiences across content areas and extend time as they see the need.
Sourc…
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A Triptych of Triptychs for Designing for Neurological Pluralism
A Triptych of Triptychs for Designing for Neurological Pluralism
ANI launched its online list, ANI-L, in 1994. Like a specialized ecological niche, ANI-L had acted as an incubator for Autistic culture, accelerating its evolution. In 1996, a computer programmer in the Netherlands named Martijn Dekker set up a list called Independent Living on the Autism Spectrum, or InLv. People with dyslexia, ADHD, dyscalculia, and a myriad of other conditions (christened…
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Obsession and the Art of Teaching
Obsession and the Art of Teaching
There’s lots of good stuff in this podcast with Gary Stager on The Lost Art of Teaching, but I’m particularly glad to see educators talking about and centering obsession. Embrace obsession. Autistic Special Interest and ADHD Hyperfocus crush learning curves when allowed to pursue passion.
Less coercion, more obsession.
Selected quotes:
A teacher’s role, then, should be to create the conditions…
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Disparities in Discipline at Your School
Disparities in Discipline at Your School
Samuel Sinyangwe has a Twitter thread on how to use the US Dept. of Education data on racial disparities to research discrimination against marginalized groups at your school.
https://twitter.com/samswey/status/988889085958938633
Search for your district on this page, and then follow the link to its discipline report.
https://twitter.com/samswey/status/988893586371547137
Here’s my school district
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When a Snake Shows up for Unschool
When a Snake Shows up for Unschool
When a snake shows up for unschool, we take the moment to deep dive snakes.
When a snake shows up for unschool, the question “Is it a Copperhead?” leads to consulting field guides, referencing indexes, and quietly observing a living thing in its environs.
When a snake shows up for unschool, we search “pit viper pupils” and “goat pupils” and “eye evolutionary history”.
When a snake shows up for…
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