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What separates the 10% most engaging teachers from the rest? Hypothesis: the most engaging teachers are also the most ENGAGED teachers? Engaged in their discipline. Engaged by their students. How do we develop that tendency? I wrote about one possibility. danmeyer.substack.com/p/teac…
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Putting love into the world comes back 3xs as much… thankful for everyone who has reached out and prayed. This will make me stronger on the road to recovery, keep praying for me! 🫶🏾3️⃣
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⚔️⚽️Great effort from the Boys today!! Heading to Middletown for the NYS Final Four!!! @LP_GreenMachine
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-re: (prefix) again
This little prefix is a giant in the land of learning.
REflect, REdo, REvise, REview, REtake, REvisit, REpeat, REsearch, REmember, REteach, REcalculate, REconsider, REthink, REphrase, REevaluate.
Again is the REality of learning.
-re, must we, to learn. – at Washington, USA
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What do I want for my own children when they've reached the end of their K-12 experience?
I want them to be self-aware, empathetic, community-minded individuals.
And that is what I want for all my other kids (students), too.
Our content is simply a context.
Our work is kids.
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Student Empowerment Through Innovation Ambassadors presented to #NYSMasterTeachers how an innovation program encouraged them to step outside their comfort zones to excel in HS & beyond. They facilitated a design challenge: T's had to improve a teaching task they don't care for.
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2022-2023 school year: We’re still in “restore” mode from the pandemic. Social-Emotional Learning is a keystone for education and to the foundation of schools. #RestorativeJustice
Trust and feelings of belonging can lead to learning, suggests P @JayBilly2:
ALT Quote attributed to Principal Jay Billy: "Without the connection and feeling of belonging, there is no learning. We spend the first weeks of school creating that belonging. Once trust is established, then students are free to be themselves – and to grow."
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Student Empowerment Through Innovation teachers started curriculum design by writing their teacher identity statement (The Cardboard Classroom @JennBinis & @TheWeirdTeacher) We used @AngelaStockman's Make Writing & layered storyboarding to build our statements #designthinking
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But what does student voice & choice, opportunities for empowerment, 21st century learning, identity, social emotional skills, and creating for impact look like? This. Stay tuned. #STEAM #civics #Entrepreneurship #DEI @wny_ric @WNYITConference @NYSMTP @forty3north @buffalostate
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"Grades have other problems: They are demotivating, they don’t actually measure learning and they increase students’ stress." #educationreform
bigthink.com/thinking/ungrad…
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We're beyond excited that the RMSC now has a makerspace!
EXCITING NEWS! 🥳 🎉 We are pleased to announce the opening of three new lab spaces at the RMSC Museum & Science Center! These spaces will be used by our Curiosity Campers, students attending field trips, and more. Click here to learn more: rmsc.org/new-labs
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Our #WNYCSETI community building activity today was to construct a building with their team members, BUT they couldn't talk and they each had a secret instruction to follow such as "you must make sure the 3rd row is only yellow bricks." Resource: sessionlab.com/methods/lego-… @nmc8255
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Once upon a classroom I guarded grades from kids.
Now I guard kids from grades.
I discovered the lie in my loyalty, so I changed where my loyalty lies.
And I guard that gate with everything I have.
#Project180
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I’ve tried to be a good partner in the testing data dance.
But I only keep getting led in the same lame song and dance—year after year.
Time, maybe, to step on some toes, but then they’ll suspect that I am not a good partner after all, that I don’t need their data. Never did.
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Student voice is so powerful especially now. How often are they included in pandemic discussions? @mozillahubs #tifcon
