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Sheri Edwards

Edcamp DOE summed up - 0 views

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shared by Sheri Edwards on 30 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • What I was most hopeful about (having staffers participating en force throughout the day) didn’t entirely happen;  the fact that this group of teacher leaders from all over were gathered within their building to talk “education” seemed like such an amazing opportunity for staff and policy makers at the Department to just listen in or even participate in our conversations.    However, Emily did a good job of pulling policy people into appropriate conversations at times.
  • As always, the respect that educators have for one another’s ideas, and their passion to come from all over the country on weekends to meet with one another and learn together is inspiring.  (And I think, according to staffers at DOE, it surprised some of them the idea that people come to learn on their own time, for free).
  • How can we reframe some of our conversations so that they become more like “problem solver” sessions?
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  • identify some “actionable” items, then we will help move things forward more effectively.
  • EdCamp DOE also gave the attendees and edu-staffers a glimpse of how difficult it is to disseminate information so that it sticks.
  • Thanks to the Department of Education for opening its doors to the Edcamp process–that meant a great deal.   And here’s to hopes that at the next EdCamp DOE, more policy makers will be participants, too.
  • Sheri Edwards on 30 Aug 14
     
    "What I was most hopeful about (having staffers participating en force throughout the day) didn't entirely happen;  the fact that this group of teacher leaders from all over were gathered within their building to talk "education" seemed like such an amazing opportunity for staff and policy makers at the Department to just listen in or even participate in our conversations.    However, Emily did a good job of pulling policy people into appropriate conversations at times."
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Literacy Online Reproducibles - 0 views

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shared by Sheri Edwards on 10 Aug 12 - Cached
  • Sheri Edwards on 10 Aug 12
     
    Literacy 2.0 Frey, Fisher, Gonzalez Reading and writing in 21st century classrooms Looks like a great book lots of links to become a connected educator
Sheri Edwards

How Finland Keeps Kids Focused Through Free Play - Tim Walker - The Atlantic - 0 views

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shared by Sheri Edwards on 01 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Come to think of it, I wasn’t sure if the American approach had ever worked very well.
  • didn’t see the point of these frequent pit stops. As a teacher in the United States, I’d spent several consecutive hours with my students in the classroom. And I was trying to replicate this model in Finland. The Finnish way seemed soft and I was convinced that kids learned better with longer stretches of instructional time. So I decided to hold my students back from their regularly scheduled break and teach two 45-minute lessons in a row, followed by a double break of 30 minutes. Now I knew why the red dots had appeared on Sami’s forehead.
  • At that moment, I decided to embrace the Finnish model of taking breaks.
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  • But then I remembered that Finns have known this for years; they’ve been providing breaks to their students since the 1960s. 
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