Even after I “Zoomed out” at the end of our Friday conversation this morning, I couldn’t get Teach For America out of my head. I honestly had not thought about TFA in quite some time. I started searching for articles about why TFA failed. No shor
Read more…Happy New Year !
Hope everyone enjoyed a break. Just wanted to share "a creative (but not new) strategy..." some teachers/districts/students were able to use in 2020.
Maybe some other communities could immitate this move and increase access?
https://www.courierherald.com/news/changing-how-we-think-about-education/
“What do you as a school community believe about how learning happens? What’s required for that to happen?” he said. “It’s taking those answers and saying, OK, are we doing tha
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I know everyone's really busy these days... no one busier than Steve perhaps!
But this looks really interesting ...
This is Our Chance Film Festival is a free virtual film festival about the intersection race, education, and youth empowerment. It open
Read more…Just sharing the Saturday session board which was not actually "unconference" edCamp format. Sunday was more open sessions without prepared presentations. I think the Friday AM conversation on 9/18 about open Zoom rooms covered a lot of ground and m
Read more…I keep having this idea about the different waves we have encountered through this pandemic. I am looking to write a think piece of the weekend about my experience. Not sure if this might help our initiatives that we talked about today. Based on what
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from facebook: Traci Bean of Pandemic Pods
I will be appearing on Good Morning America's third hour GMA3 on Thursday 8/13 to talk about the unique challenges facing students with special needs and parents as we gear up for school this year. If you ha
Things you're seeing this week
What Are You Seeing?
Who's Ready for the Change? Who's at the tipping point?
https://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/reopening-schools-2020/index.html
| Here are the 7 most popular Education Week stories and opinion essays you and your colleagues have been reading this week. Also, view our latest special report, Getting Kids t |
Things to note/questions:
Introductions (if needed)
Marketing / Promotion
Maybe we consider backing the diea that all students start over instead of moving forward. Obvious log jams in K and 9-12 but it would solve alot of problems...
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56278/how-teacher-looping-can-ease-the-learning-disruption
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Conferences
http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/home-school-tsunami
I don't know this podcast or the guy, but just the outline here is really interesting.
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