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Katie Dixon

Defining bullying - The Sun Chronicle Online - News - 0 views

    • Katie Dixon
       
      What is the balance?  Stress their important role, teach them how to partner with the school, church, etc at home - but hold parents accountable? Would this not teach students that they are not personally accountable for their actions?
  • "It has to be a process. I don't look at it as being one shot, one year and done,"
  • focusing on bystanders, mostly at the middle school level,
Dana Huff

King Lear and Medicare Politics - 2 views

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    This article on the blog Better Living Through Beowulf might be an interesting way to connect King Lear to modern politics.
Anne Williams

Big Thinkers: Judy Willis on the Science of Learning | Edutopia - 4 views

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    brain based research on the science of learning focus and curiosty in the classroom PD
Vanessa Alander

Formative and Summative Assessment in the Classroom - 12 views

    • Vanessa Alander
       
      Use of exit slips as formative assessments!  
  • self-evaluation is a logical step in the learning process.
  • students keeping ongoing records of their work not only engages students, it
Vanessa Alander

http://www.smallschoolsproject.org/PDFS/co21003/rigor_not.pdf - 3 views

    • Vanessa Alander
       
      Rigor is not... it is helping students develop complex ambiguous provocative challenging material in and out of the classroom
Mark Smith

How to Land Your Kid in Therapy - Magazine - The Atlantic - 8 views

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    "college deans have reported receiving growing numbers of incoming freshmen they've dubbed "teacups" because they're so fragile that they break down anytime things don't go their way. "Well-intentioned parents have been metabolizing their anxiety for them their entire childhoods," Mogel said of these kids, "so they don't know how to deal with it when they grow up." "
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    Agreed: I spend a significant portion of my "parent" time trying to convince HS parents that their child's grade is something the child and I can handle....
Patrick Higgins

The Crocodile in the Common Core Standards | Dailycensored.com - 17 views

  • As though literacy is to prepare children only for a working environment. And as though personal opinion isn’t vital in a working environment.
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      This all reminds me of the dust-up caused by Grant Wiggins in his ASCDEdge post last year regarding fiction's misguided place in our classrooms.  
Gary Plumley

Make Your Special Days Picture Perfect With Limo Hires - 1 views

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    Some of the biggest moments in your life call for a limo rental. Most commonly, the prom, wedding, anniversaries, graduations, birthdays, stag and hen parties or even corporate events call for the hire of a limo. A limo is the perfect travel option for those who wish to arrive in style to a party.
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