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Educator’s Notebook #201 (September 17, 2017)

    • Politico
    • 09/13/17

    Part of the problem, Loladze was finding, lay in the research world itself. Answering the question required an understanding of plant physiology, agriculture and nutrition―as well as a healthy dollop of math.”

    • EdSurge
    • 09/12/17

    And so, one of the benefits of having a teacher who has a more global view of the subject is that they can push you and direct you in ways that keep your brain in the red zone. That's one aspect I think where teachers are super valuable. I'm not sure it's even possible for students to provoke themselves in the ways that teachers can provoke those students.”

ATHENA

ATHLETICS

CHARACTER

CREATIVITY

CURRICULUM

DIVERSITY/INCLUSION

EARLY CHILDHOOD

    • KQED
    • 09/15/17

    Effective pre-K classrooms teach self-regulation through songs and routines; picture prompts can remind children of the steps in a process. Skilled preschool teachers have strategies for redirecting student behavior and use language that provides instruction.”

HUMANITIES

LEADERSHIP

PEDAGOGY

READING/WRITING

STEM

TECH

    • Wired
    • 09/01/17

    Looking at a screen is not living. It’s a concentrated decoding operation that requires the keen, exhausting vision of a predator and not the soft focus that allows all doors of perception to swing open… The trick is to read technology instead of being captured by it… Paradoxically, framing the internet as a text to be read, not a life to be led, tends to break, without effort, its spell.”

WORKPLACE

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Peter Nilsson

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