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While I have tried to move away from giving grades over the last seven years, I have been a failure at it. Those pesky numbers or letters keep popping up in our classroom, whether I want them to o…

Consider using autonomy, competence, relatedness, and relevance as practical classroom strategies to reinforce the intrinsic motivation students need for making the most of their learning.

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What it’s really saying: DON’T label students! Treat difficult students like everyone else.

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“We cannot treat our students as ‘other people’s children’ (Delpit, 1995) — their pain is our pain… audacious hope demands that we reconnect to the collect…

We teach either revolution or oppression.

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I definitely want to use this activity one of the first few days of school!

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It’s time to boldly reimagine the high-school experience using the power of human-centered design, the latest adolescent neuroscience, and purpose learning.

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4 new tools, 61 more days to learn how to use them. :)

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Too many icebreakers require students to take massive social risks with people they barely know. Or they don't really help students get to know each other. Or they are just plain cheesy. Here are three that are actually good. Continue Reading →

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A playable post on how harmless choices can make a harmful world.

This is such an interesting look at diversity and exclusion.

1. small individual bias leads to large collective bias

2. the past haunts the present

3. demand diversity near you

#parable of the polygons #teachon #diversity

By Lissa Piercy The summer before my junior year of high school, I was diagnosed with ADHD. My executive function struggles made certain classroom experiences particularly challenging. While I love…

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Advice is available everywhere you look, and some of it is very good. Still, with everything you have to do right now, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of it all. And the fact is, a lot of those tips won’t work very well if you fail to follow this one essential rule. Continue Reading →

I read this article at the perfect time as I begin two years at a new school!

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I am committed to reducing the opportunity gap and the achievement gap in NYC schools. While I am just beginning the teacher certification process, I have two years of experience serving in NYC schools through AmeriCorps. It is because of this service that I decided to pursue certification. My students have taught me so much, and while I have much more to learn, I know that my students will invigorate me and constantly remind me of why I want to be a teacher.

I have particularly enjoyed watching one student grow into who she is and develop and her beliefs over the past two years. When I first met her as an angry sixth grader, she was "that student." Every teacher seemed to struggle with her disruptive behaviors in the classroom. She is her own worst critic, and she saw her failing grades as evidence that she was not smart. In January of this spring semester, she finally seemed to believe in herself when out of the entire class reading and analyzing the poem, The Raven, she was the first to 'get it.' Soon after this, I initiated a conversation with her about her grades because while she is highly intelligent, she was failing many of her core classes. She shocked many of her teachers by reaching out to them about her grades. They had inadvertently written her off. This sparked a change in how she perceived herself, the schools' rules and systems, as well as her teachers. She began writing at home "just for fun." In the time that most students created one writing piece in a unit, she wrote five, all of them deeply philosophical and questioning the world as we know it, one of which she convinced the vice principal to print and hang as a large poster in the hallway. She is "that student," the student that has the power to change the culture of a classroom and a school. She embodies the quote, "strong willed children become adults who change the world as long as we can hang on for the ride and resist the temptation to 'tame' the spirit out of them." I view my small role in her life as a teacher she trusted to see her for who she is as one of my greatest accomplishments.

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“For many white Americans, millions of black and Latino children attending segregated schools may seem like a throwback to another era, a problem we solved long ago. And legally, we did. In 1954, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, striking down laws that forced black and white children to attend separate schools. But while Brown v. Board targeted segregation by state law, we have proved largely unwilling to address segregation that is maintained by other means, resulting from the nation’s long and racist history.”

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It’s disturbingly easy to fall into these bad habits. Self reflect and strive to be a better classroom manager.

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A roundup of news articles about young people that appeared in May, Teenagers in The Times is a monthly feature.

Great for class discussions.

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Great resource!!

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