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oatmeal

the wildest thing happened in class today.

yesterday, i discovered the miracle of brandishing an oatmeal box at wonderful students distracted by their personal technology (read: kids on phones)

today, it did not work... and i had to follow through.

i had a student shocked and trying to argue, consistently asking why. i don't know if he processed when i gave him the "final warning," since this is very new, individual basis, not a whole-class procedure, or in the syllabus, or whatever.

anyway. super resistant. wouldn't put it in. i walked away, said ok i'll come back, put it in. wasn't there.

(language played a really interesting role -- when i broke down the "why," students were saying... using a metaphor? tore him up? killed him? got him? dunno. but his table group was peer pressuring him a little bit.)

gave him a deadline -- 11:05. he still argued. like, "i won't use it anymore!" (also, told his classmates to leave him alone. love the support... but... i'm on his team too)

and i was like... you know what? maybe. and i was thinking of how i could... not escalate the power struggle. like i'd told him we'd need to get a campus security monitor if he didn't put his phone in the box! it was going to be a whole thing! and i realllllllly didn't want to do it!

so... i went to my desk to write a contract. like, ok, if i can make it SUUUUUPER official, fine, whatever, the kid can keep the phone

and i tore out a piece of paper and started writing

and then

from the back table

classmates saying "miss! miss! here it is!"

and the phone was in the box

i think it was seeing me write that put it over the edge, and like... the mystery of that, and knowing how it... i dunno! has impacted things before?

fascinating!

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‎The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast: EduTip 15: Set aside time to set norms. on Apple Podcasts

‎Show The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast, Ep EduTip 15: Set aside time to set norms. - Jul 17, 2022

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Opinion on avoiding floods - https://www.recordnet.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/06/21/california-must-act-now-to-head-off-future-floods-in-stockton-san-joaquin-valley-budget-priority/7690905001/

Farmland collapsing (Stanford study) - https://www.recordnet.com/story/news/environment/2022/06/02/california-drought-san-joaquin-valley-farmland-sinking-due-water-over-pumping-sgma-stanford-study/7486727001/

City gov't on sustainability - https://www.stocktonca.gov/government/departments/manager/sustainability/default.html

Poems - Mary Oliver, Robert Frost, otherssssss

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‎The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast: 189: Eight Principles for Supporting Students with ADHD on Apple Podcasts

‎Show The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast, Ep 189: Eight Principles for Supporting Students with ADHD - Apr 20, 2022

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‎The Teachers' Classroom: The ELL Student Experience with Bridget on Apple Podcasts

‎Show The Teachers' Classroom, Ep The ELL Student Experience with Bridget - May 24, 2022

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Ode on Melancholy by John Keats | Poetry Foundation

No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist

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Use Every-Day Edits to build language skills, test scores, and cultural literacy. Have students find errors of capitalization, punctuation,

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Faster. Better. More focused. Reading.

Did you know that your brain reads faster than your eye? We humans store learned words and so just a few letters are enough to recognize who

gonna look into this more realllllllll soon

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advice from middle school teachers w/ ADHD

managing assignments

magazine holders on wall

is there a way to have a holder for each student?

big pile of paper for the day, go through and organize at the end of the day

write two weeks of assignments on the board, if graded? so you can point somewhere when students say "what is my make-up work"

maximize active grading -- have students grade each other's work rather than you grading everything!

shoe organizers for turn-ins lol - a designated student can pull them out in numerical order at the end of class - could another student write down names of students absent or missing work?

managing interruptions

self-service supplies

self sign-out w/ bathroom

students w/ something important to tell you can write it on a sticky notes and tape it to the computer screen

sign language for bathroom, water, comment, answer, question, volunteer

conferences list on board (could work both ways)

planning

tuesday-tuesday instead of monday-friday?

talk it out! it can be difficult to work solo

two to-do lists -- one for ASAP, one for extra time

lists of lists

"productive music" on youtube

dance it out when you've gotta

some days will just mentally be a wash

print in advance, organize in order

write on lesson plans for notes?

batch/long-range planning

15-minute timers with two minutes in between - use for students, too?

miscellaneous

checklist of what to accomplish before leaving work

open shelving, clear containers

reply to emails/messages RIGHT AWAY

ask students for reminders!

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teacher advice

grade + return papers ASAP! less paper = more

pocket notebook - write to-dos - check regularly - rewrite at the end of the day

mental tricks for ADHDers work for adolescent brains too (chunking, pace, deadline windows, notice for deadlines)

students collect, label work??

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While I love my classroom, I often have to get out of there! My coworkers find me just walking the halls during in-service preparation days, my off periods, in the middle of class sometimes… ok I’m joking about that one!I have need a change of scenery in my school day. When I have an off period I will walk to the gym, the front office, go watch another teacher’s classroom, go outside or anything that’s not in my classroom. I’ve actually benefited in several ways for this. Fresh air and change of view is great.

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lang.12065

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Investment and motivation in language learning: What's the difference? | Language Teaching | Cambridge Core

Investment and motivation in language learning: What's the difference?

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https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1598/RT.60.5.4