February 2012
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Cathedral Building: The way we talk about it. ... →
vivamary:
shapefutures:
It sincerely bothers me when people sandwich mourning of some young people with comments on brightness or talent and that they “had a bright future ahead of” them while completely overlooking others. It’s right up there with using only a certain caliber of young person as an example that those…
I disagree…kind of. I don’t think the problem is with people commenting on...
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In eye-opening report, experts tell us what many... →
Halpern states that most high schools are currently too narrow in focus. He says that for today’s diverse youth population, a common curriculum in an isolated school setting is ineffective.
“We should be focusing on how to provide good learning experiences that are based on what we know about the development of young people,” says Halpern. “In high school, young people are learning more...
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The way we talk about it. (Trigger Warning: death...
It sincerely bothers me when people sandwich mourning of some young people with comments on brightness or talent and that they “had a bright future ahead of” them while completely overlooking others. It’s right up there with using only a certain caliber of young person as an example that those certain groups of people can be functional.
A person does not have more value...
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13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
ai-yo:
jumpstart-therevolution:
theafrosistuh:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester...
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I feel bad blocking what look like obvious spam...
I mean…what if the wedding dress folks or the pornstar or the guy selling energy drinks want to read about education, too? All that I can see when I consider blocking them is someone on the other side of their computer screen with a tear running down their lonely, spambot cheek.
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Sometimes I rush into things...
For example: after putting in at least 150 resumes back in NY and never getting a call back on one of them, I leapt at the position that moved me to Western MA without really thinking about whether it was something that would be well-suited for me. All I knew at the time was that they said they wanted me to be part of their organization so badly that, even though the position I had applied for...
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Hey Elementary School Teachers, this is me... →
Elementary School Outreach/Student Card Writing Project: We are looking for people who will contact elementary school teachers in their area to encourage them to have their students make hand-written “Thank You For Your Service” cards, that NROTC [National Remember Our Troops Campaign, not the ROTC] can then forward to troops who are serving overseas. These cards take on a very...
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"Bully" is a documentary made to be seen by youth,... →
But the MPAA has elected to give the movie an ‘R’ rating.
The language and violence that so many bullied kids face every day is apparently inappropriate for young viewing audiences. But that’s the point. The point of the documentary is to bring this issue to light, for everyone.
I can’t guarantee it would have the affect that the filmmaker and those involved in the...
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Take Your Vitamins: What You Answered So Far
loserfacekleo answered:keep active. stay in shape. eat right.
girlwithalessonplan answered:Airborne is gross. I use a simple Centrum multi and take caltrate—when I a remember.
hasbimubarok answered:life with keeping “really” natural resources indeed without chemical things is good choice… or in my country we said organic life spirit
lhuddles answered: im anemic, so i take iron. ive also...
way-of-seeing-deactivated201204 asked: that person on your FB page needs to either back their claims up with facts or stay away
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Follower Milestone!
I am officially at the point where if I had a dollar for every follower, I wouldn’t need to get a second job to support me while I start this new one.
(It was suggested that I follow this statement with a link to a paypal account. Very funny.)
In related news, I start next week (not this Monday but next) and will be back in the direct-service-with-youth game. So, more actual...
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I'm not quite sure how I ended up in this...
…but I am currently trying to figure out how to respond to an apparent future educator who believes that depression is not a mental illness, that it is alright to condemn suicide, and that one can overcome not only severe depression but also “severe mental retardation” if one wants to badly enough (they brought that last one into the picture independently) because they personally...
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Take Your Vitamins
Do any of the teachers (or otherwise active people out there) take daily vitamins? Were they suggested by a doctor or did you start taking them on your own?
When I was student-teaching a handful of people swore up and down on Airborne, so by the end of my second gig in the classroom I switched back and forth between that, a generic, and water bottle vitamin mixes. Did it make a difference? ...
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Building a Better Teacher- New York Times. →
No professional feels completely prepared on her first day of work, but while a new lawyer might work under the tutelage of a seasoned partner, a first-year teacher usually takes charge of her classroom from the very first day. One survivor of this trial by fire is Amy Treadwell, a teacher for 10 years who received her master’s degree in education from DePaul University, one of the largest...
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This conversation just happened in an office of...
Coworker 1: So what do you think?
Coworker 2: ...I don't know about the word 'procure,' I don't know if that's the right word choice.
Coworker 1: Of course it is. Procure.
Coworker 2: I don't know, it seems awkward.
Coworker 1: *reads definition of the word*
Coworker 2: No, I know what it means, but...
Coworker 1: I'll make you a deal. You find a different word, and we'll see.
Coworker 2: How about (tosses suggestions back and forth around other words with other people in the office).
Coworker 1: I've got an idea, how about....procure.
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A seemingly random and anticipated update:
I got a different position.
I was just informed that I got a job working at a Boys and Girls Club just under an hour away from here.
It’s part-time. It’s an assistant position, not a manager position. It will pay less than what I am making now — which is carefully calculated to be at 110% of the poverty line.
But I have never, ever been so happy to hear that I got a job...
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“GWALP adds: Warning for harsh language.
On a somewhat serious note today...”
– You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face « Views from the Couch (via unbornghost)
GWALP asks: How do you elementary teachers did with this?
(via girlwithalessonplan)
First of all, let me say that I’ve fallen a little in love with the OP of the commentary here.
Secondly, I...
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Uhh... why is there a model in the education tag?
girlwithalessonplan:
GWALP has no idea.
Maybe they’re pushing their fashion week stuff in every tag? Shapefutures is just guessing.
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Why We Need The Oxford Comma →
poeticwasteland:
I’m currently student teaching 7th grade Language Arts. Back while I was still observing, my cooperating teacher put a sentence on the board trying to instruct the students about the placement of commas when writing a series. Fine, great, wonderful. But she neglected to add in the oxford comma, and it bothered me so much that I was compelled to get up and fix it. An action to...
nutritiongeek asked: haha the second and third book and the series :))
nutritiongeek asked: the hunger games is sooo good!
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I finally started The Hunger Games
Originally I was reading this bestseller espionage thing to tide me over until my first of the le Carre novels come in to the library for me, but it turned out to be absolutely terrible.
So my housemate shoved The Hunger Games at me and told me I wouldn’t want to put it down.
Well, the last line of the first chapter actually made me wail so loud that said housemate asked if I was okay...
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Another Grant Roundup:
This time, instead of listing all the grants available (because there are quite a few), I’m going to link you to the grant databases I’m browsing today — meant specifically for teachers and/or schools
GrantWrangler is an excellent resource targeted at teachers specifically, and I would definitely suggest keeping it in your toolbar and checking back every now and again to see...
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Apparently the themes at Cathedral Building this week are “gender,” “suggestions that will lose followers,” and “things I never thought I’d be looking up for the education blog” (i.e., heterosexual fashion designers and pink machismo). Strange week.
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Pink Boys and Puppy Dog Tails →
Usually Psychology Today makes me cringe, I admit it. They’re a popular magazine as opposed to a scientific one and often have articles that seem more suited to Cosmo than a supposedly science-based publication. Then, of course, there’s the fact that they don’t always make the best choices (for example, ever publishing fringe evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa’s...
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I'm getting some very interesting...
I am not telling everyone to go out and eliminate gender from their classrooms. Many people still believe that at early ages, gender divisions are a good and necessary thing to instill in their students/kids. What I will say is that, if one is going to do so, they should also be careful of instilling gender stereotypes that can hold kids back.
Gender is fluid. It isn’t sex. Sex is our...
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Ending Cissexism in the Classroom: Addressing and...
A post is going around with a list of five ways to end cissexism, among other great lists. The first suggestion on that list is not to refer to strangers as “sir” or “ma’am.”
And yet a lot of us do this in our classrooms. We call the students “boys and girls,” some of us have students line up boy-girl or have the genders compete to see which half of the...
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Y'all, let's send PPT some love and warm wishes...
girlwithalessonplan:
thinkbrit:
lessonsfroma4thgrader:
kicksandgiggles:
GOOD LUCK, DEAREST! You will OWN that Marzano framework. Big smiles and deep breaths.
No matter what, you will always be “innovating” in my books :)
Go, PPT! We are all rooting for you!
Good, good luck! You will do amazingly, and you know we’re all here behind you! <3
I don’t know anyone more invested in her...
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emilwriting asked: What makes you want to work with children so much, what is your driving reason?
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“Many saw the answer in a melting pot concept, but their tastes favored a stew...”
– - The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Best description of the “melting pot” ever.
(via belldam)
Agreed.
I was taught to favor a tossed salad metaphor — everything part of the whole dish but still a unique ingredient with its own taste. Thoughts?
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My brothers and I chat via Facebook, and we're a...
Me: BOO
Brother: RADLEY
Me: ...I love you.
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This makes me happy. →
positivelypersistentteach:
teachintraining:
I discussed this with my classes during student teaching. Because I was in a small (conservative too) town, a lot of kids had never heard anyone tell them not to use “gay” in this context. Most kids did not care what I had to say and in a period of Government (one that I did not teach on a regular basis but observed most of the time), students...
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Unexpected Teachable Moment
I was out at the monthly Gallery Walk in Brattleboro tonight, on a whim. The sidewalks were teeming with youth — not college students either, but young teens and tweens who’d probably been cooped up by the weather and thus took the relatively mild evening by storm. (One girl complained to her friends, who were contemplating popping into a record store, “I want air! I wanna be...
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Brief absence: Hello, This is what's up!
Some recurring medical problems pulled the rug out from under me for a little bit there, partly my fault for not having taken care of it properly. I haven’t even been able to work with my tutoring students for almost two weeks now and I’m going a little stir crazy. Most of my tumblr activity on the personal blog has been reblogging ridiculous or beautiful things that are helping me...