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Readings & Resources - An Editable Collection There'll be plenty of texts that get mentioned in this course.  Plenty that are immediately relevant - but also plenty that we'll want ot keep for later.  Here is a link to a Google Doc where I'm throwing some of the stuff that I'm finding.  It's editable because I suspect you have things we should add.  When in doubt, if you think it's relevant to writing and Common Core, please share it here. Note - These Tasks can also be made editable - but I like the simplicity of the Google Doc.  Let me know if you've other suggestions for how we might share/collect/annotate the stuff we come across in the comments to this task.

Mary Beth in Philly -- went down to occupy and hand out fliers about occupy education; Jose "B" interested in Youth Voices and his students (forget what); Paul -- "Elementary One-Room Schoolhouse" in Youth Voices; JLV, math coach and math teacher in NYC; Occupy the Classroom; Chad Sansing -- at his school talking about how to affect change in our classrooms; trying to make it a more student led place; working with Mary Beth and others to create a companion site called Occupy Edu; Paul: when stuff like Occupy Wall Street comes up, as a teacher I want to highlight what is happening; but how to do that without making it teacher centric ... interesting conversations follows; Sheri Edwards ... obligations to bring up Wall Street ... teaching 6, 7, 8th grades and do group blogging ... Paul asked about difficulties at her school; being student centered is not an easy task given the different things that are going on there; David Loitz working from the democratic something something, teaching pre-school, moderating the occupy edu blog. JLV thinking education as a big monster and thinking about Occupy and what to learn to support education as a whole and how we can build new arms (more about inclusion and not exclusion) ... lots of powerful work happening ... Chris has an example of a student posting and lots of different people have identified with movement ... Mary Beth everything I see I see through the lens of education ("the disease I have") ...how everything was organized ... thinking about how we as teachers have these things happening to us, why can't we also self-organized ... we have a core thing we agree on ... amazing to see the microcosm of a community grown outside city hall. David studying small communities and amazing to see this happening ... a shift in our society finally taking what is real online and bring that idea back into face to face connections ... here I have something to give, who else does, let's put them together and make something better ...

Important for students to hear their own voices. really important for teachers to hear their own voices along with parents too but is so essential for change ... Chad asked about Occupy the Classroom ... how has it come to where it is and where is it ... who is involved and how is it supporting the capturing of voice and amplifying ... where is it in promoting conversations about the bedrock conversations about schooling ... JLV talked about the blog post that helped to set the tone ... it tends to have a Freire style with a focus on pedagogy ... what is it that will change the conversation from anti-this to pro-that ... once that became the conversation then it went crazy from there ... various places and people picked it up ... Occupy Edu paralleling the efforts is excellent ... I know of see my role under this hashtag what can we do now ... from small to large ... will encourage cross-posting and get them to help each other some more. Cataloging what we can learn, as educators, from the Occupy movement. Lets list them. Paul talks about the year he worked in a new school and everything was decided by consensus and ended up getting rid of lots of things and restarted the school ... wondering if where I am now if that would be more possible. I realize I don't even know how decision are made as a teacher, let alone the teachers. ... Chris says he doesn' tthink we teach studnets to do this -- instead it's about arguing, win debates, spot fallacies ... but speaking for myself I don't think I do a good enough job teaching them to come to consensus. Dave would second it and also point out that other schools do this and reaching out to folks who are doing this already ... not seeing ourselves in silos. That is something we can learn ... we don't need to fight about all the things that are different that if we can find that core we have a lot to teach each other ... Jose came into LAUSD came into a school that was about consensus ... unfortunately its been downhill since

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