jbackon
@jbackon
Lifelong learner. Fifteen years of “Range” in business, 27 teaching / changing culture at Choate, and then with OESIS and Intrepid. Currently retired.
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What could a teacher practice conducted with grace look like? How can grace support teachers dealing with a toxic school culture? @HarbordKhan ask important questions that help teachers approach students and curriculum with more empathy. bit.ly/3T2FMYs
Conversation Labs would exemplify Discussion as a Discipline: a set of skills that students can name, practice, and use in school and for life, writes Liza Garonzik @DiscussionReal. Read to discover what such labs would look like and how they would work. bit.ly/3G9BYNv
Too often, those with ADHD overfocus on what they believe someone else is thinking about them, writes @DrSharonSaline. This train of thought prevents them from being authentic due to a fear of judgment, criticism, or exclusion. Read more for five tips. bit.ly/40HEe8o
I’ve taken the position that project-based learning is the ‘natural’ way to learn. PBL is a human design system that recreates the lifelong process of encountering challenges, grappling with problems, and sharing results, writes @thommarkham. Learn why. bit.ly/40BGk9y
Most of us recognize flow as the optimal individual experience (Mihalyi), but @saholzapfel reminds us that the book went beyond personal flow to group flow and workflow showing that groups of people can also optimize their experiences and processes. bit.ly/465OF6F
What could/should we pay a teacher who gifts a student a lifelong love for reading, a curious mind, or a joy in robotics? A teacher who reveals a student’s confidence or undiscovered talent? bit.ly/3SufYEl
If we want to live as nature, Luis Alberto Camargo tells @DrBenjaminFreud, we need to learn to ask because it’s the only way we’ll generate dialog to understand interactions and capacities. bit.ly/3QGqCXt
In a generation where one in four students says their career aspiration is to be an influencer, class discussion teaches students that yes, their individual voices matter – but so does listening and showing others they matter, writes @DiscussionReal. bit.ly/4780sCi
Given what we have in common and where we think we differ, how can we invent stuff that takes the best care of us, Gil Friend asks @DrBenjaminFreud. Can we have an education that supports transforming our lives while developing the ability to live well? bit.ly/3QzwuSc
At a time when public statements can be problematic for students, it is important that teachers and schools say something to students, write @HarbordKhan. Bystander syndrome is not a healthy place to be when kids are trying to understand conflict. bit.ly/40cHND9
We don't talk because we fear repercussions. We seek safety in groups that are like-minded. Have we abandoned critical thinking or is this a temporary hiatus while we sort out how our society is organized? Educators and liberal education are the key. bit.ly/409W2bH
Students should become “the architects of their own futures,” making choices that nurture their own interests, creativity, and leadership abilities, writes @ekgriffin in her review of Ana Homayoun's book, "Erasing the Finish Line." bit.ly/3Mg5xk6
When we tell stories, we decide what to include and exclude, writes @DrBenjaminFreud. That discriminatory process is the ethical act of telling stories. That is why telling our stories collectively is the most powerful act of learning in our culture. bit.ly/492PvDP
If you could envision your best view of the future, what would it look like, asks @willrich45 in his convo with @DrBenjaminFreud. Once we start having these conversations, the work gets easier. We have to imagine the future before we can prepare for it. bit.ly/3M5WS3u
Brent Kaneft writes that we tend to bypass unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks and claim a level of enlightened transcendence that belies the reality of our fallibility. bit.ly/3HhX624
Language instruction, like other disciplines, spends much time on mechanics that do not help students when they face the world, writes @Haiyunlu. We need to rethink the purpose of learning a second language and build a program that meets student needs. bit.ly/3M7C2Rd
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Three Painful English Learning Stories and Why They Were So Wrong! | Haiyun Lu - Intrepid ED News
It's time we take a look at what we do in world language classrooms.
Schools are designed to block change from occurring, writes Alden Blodget. Teachers have developed strategies to derail change for good reason. The system yields no time to reflect, adjust, retool; or emulate what happens in other segments of our culture. bit.ly/47bL6gj
The key to providing effective and caring school support for your kids with ADHD and more begins with recognizing the problem and shifting their mindset with a sustainable solution, writes @DrSharonSaline. Here are 4 strategies. bit.ly/45GbwFO
Lest you think PBL was a passing fad, read Part 1 of @thommarkham's series, Beyond PBL, in which he admits that PBL was not a good fit for our current education model, and implores us to look ahead and use real PBL to liberate students and ignite genius. bit.ly/48JU71D
In an uncertain world, students need to focus on developing skills for problem-solving or project completion. Jeff Burstein recommends that teachers support students by pulling the learning modules when students need them in order to be successful. bit.ly/3RSbx5W
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