Do you 1) work in a school or 2) know children or 3) hear there's an election coming? middlegroundschools.com/blog #disagreebetter

... a student walked into your classroom wearing a MAGA hat. Good learning for the students requires us educators to work through some challenging questions well ahead of the election. Read more: middlegroundschools.com/blog…

The presidential election: ignore the divisiveness or teach kids how to navigate lines of disagreement? It's important that schools get out in front of this and decide what the point is. Read more: middlegroundschools.com/blog… #listenfirst #disagreebetter

What an honor and a delight to join my friend and former colleague (and the teacher who has made my son love French), Joshua Cabral, on his World Language Classroom Podcast! Listen here: wlclassroom.com/category/pod… @WLClassroom #wlclassroompodcast

Schools must decide: do you tangle with this election? Is it as a teaching tool? Or a distraction that derails learning? I hope most schools will be in—that they'll seize the civic moment, especially given its historic divisiveness. middlegroundschools.com #DisagreeBetter

Thanks to @reneehobbs for sharing this video through our work on the Courageous RI PD program. Very thought-provoking! youtube.com/watch?v=-ZwJxG34…

I suspect there's a lot that @GovCox and I disagree about, but not that we need to #disagreebetter! Check out the @NatlGovsAssoc and their year-long initiative: nga.org/disagree-better/ #ListenFirst

Seems like a promising tool to help us extend dignity to all-- even those we mistrust, dislike, or downright fear. What if we armed students with this index and asked them to evaluate the speech of those around them? dignityindex.us/

Why We Need to Invite Politics into Classrooms middleweb.com/49218/why-we-n…

Lots of energy at #NAISAC around political polarization and bridge-building, thanks to remarks by @VanJones68 and @PeterTColeman1 . Let's continue the conversation!

In the face of gun violence--among many other problems-- political polarization has frozen us. We adults are not good at working across lines of divide. Our students will have to be better. intrepidednews.com/uvalde-re…