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Summer Series of Saves: Teachers Talk.

July 19, 2018 by blog0rama

Be centered on what matters to you. Just wanted to capture a wonderful chat I stumbled onto–good ideas and inspiring to focus on what matters. And: I want to share with students that teachers walk the walk–we want our students to love their reading and writing lives as much as we do. I love these questions as a strategy to use with independent reading! #vatechat https://t.co/ulmSsnl12Z — Josh Thompson (@jthompedu) July 19, 2018 Starting the countdown for our 2nd twitter […]

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Categories: being a better colleague, Being a better teacher, Big Questions, Books, burning questions, Communication, Connections, Professional Learning Network • Tags: #edchat, #vatechat, books, PLN, reading lives, Twitter

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Part I: Renaissance Fairness

February 7, 2018 by blog0rama

Sometimes we teachers may grow cynical about the ‘career and college’ ready mission statement. It’s not hard to see why: when our nation voted gave corporations the same voting rights as human beings we knew we were in deep trouble. To avoid that rabbit hole, I’ll just say this: we still work, and one of our jobs as teachers is to show students the opportunities and pathways so they can make the work-life decisions for themselves with the best and […]

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Categories: Being a better teacher, Best Practices, Communication, Connections, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Ideas • Tags: collaboration, employability, STEAM, STEM

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WIHWT: Taking Sides

August 18, 2016 by blog0rama

I wish I had written this: Taking Sides: Revolution or Oppression. Our children’s fears indict us all. Teaching critical thinking skills is not an option. It never was, but seemed to be kept for the elite or college-bound. One cannot teach a skill in isolation. It cannot be a stand-alone, one-off concept. Skills must always ALWAYS be connected to a bigger understanding and knowledge building. Silo teaching “may help teachers, but does nothing to help students.” It’s imperative to make the […]

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Categories: being a better colleague, Being a better teacher, Best Practices, Big Questions, burning questions, Common Core, Communication, Curriculum Maps

Pathos, logos, and ethos take a holiday.

August 3, 2016 by blog0rama

In addition to short films, commercials can be another valuable asset. Many commercials live on multiple places on Bloom’s Taxonomy, and certainly any argumentative reading and writing unit worth its salt contains at least one or two commercials to support a conversation about pathos, ethos, and logos. I just found this site this morning. This first ad can bring up so many relatable conversation points. To quote John Spencer, “What’s so odd is that people have been creating art, writing […]

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Categories: Art, being a better colleague, Big Questions, Communication, Connections, Creativity, Discussion • Tags: advertisements, argumentative writing, ethos, logos, pathos

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Talk Tuesday

July 18, 2016 by blog0rama

The intent of “Talk Tuesdays” was twofold: to use the readings/texts in a purposeful way, and invite students to think about discussion, and practice. Well, that is the intent, and we all know about roads paved, etc. But I think I became too distracted or mired in the concept of ‘accountable talk.’ I’m not sure if you know my connotative negative bias toward the word ‘accountable’ when it comes to students. Accountable talk is a buzzkill idea. There. I said it. However, […]

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Categories: being a better colleague, Being a better teacher, Best Practices, Communication, Discussion, Lesson Ideas • Tags: accountable talk, discussion, Socratic Seminars, Talk Tuesdays, talking, town halls, turn and talk

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Match up: texts, teachers, and students

July 7, 2016 by blog0rama

This morning I promised myself not to touch either hand-held device, my cell phone or i-Pad, for at least five hours today. So far, so good. Lately I’ve acquired the odd habit of setting up arbitrary goals for myself, little mind games where only I know the rules. For example, in June, I told myself ‘no beer for a year.’ I really like beer, and though not trying to punish myself, just wanted to see if I could do it. […]

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Categories: being a better colleague, Being a better teacher, Best Practices, Big Questions, book recommendations, burning questions, Close Reading, Communication, Reading • Tags: Notice and Note, text choices

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Email Extremism

June 28, 2016 by blog0rama

Fascinating report from WBUR that links to two separate articles about emails in the workplace. Inspired by Principal Gerry Brooks, I wrote my own take on the content of emails not too long ago, and this ties in with the productivity, or lack thereof, with emails. From the outset, I’ll say that though I don’t feel any grand accomplishment in compiling emails by name and then hitting the delete key en masse, I do sometimes need this mindless activity. Every minute […]

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Categories: being a better colleague, Being a better teacher, Communication • Tags: communication, emails, Harvard Business Review, productivity, WBUR

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My Inner Buttercup.

April 23, 2016 by blog0rama

All over social media my colleagues post ‘hang in there!’ Or, ‘is it a full moon?’ kinds of posts. Spring break for our district (and my son’s) occurred the first week of April, and we have quite a ways to go. In the Love shack, we have our own things going on: three years ago we managed to get our older son through his senior year, and now it’s time for our younger son, and it’s a{…………….} time and experience. […]

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Categories: being a better colleague, Being a better teacher, Communication • Tags: everything's cool, letting go, no stress

Sweet failure.

October 17, 2015 by blog0rama

This week I was reminded I make mistakes. Missteps. Goofs. Gaffs. And while I’m trying to focus on some of the successes, the good moments, my amygdala, albeit not hijacked, is certainly in a time-out mode, a ‘stand in the corner and think about what you did’ kind of place. I tell a story about my wedding and reception, where it fascinates me that we think about the errors, and not the beauty, of an event. I forgot to have […]

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Categories: Being a better teacher, Big Questions, Communication, Connections • Tags: brains, ideas, mistakes

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Summer Series of Saves: Teachers Talk.

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Part I: Renaissance Fairness

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WIHWT: Taking Sides

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Pathos, logos, and ethos take a holiday.

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Talk Tuesday

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Match up: texts, teachers, and students

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Email Extremism

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