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Educator’s Notebook #229 (April 1, 2018)

ADMISSIONS

ADOLESCENCE

ATHENA

ATHLETICS

    • NPR
    • 03/30/18

    “He stopped one shot after another — seven times blocking the Jets' attempts to score. In a moment most rec-league players can recognize from our wildest dreams, the fans in the United Center began chanting his name.”

CHARACTER

CURRICULUM

DIVERSITY/INCLUSION

HIGHER ED

HUMANITIES

LEADERSHIP

PD

    • Gallup
    • 03/27/18

    “The primary reason teachers gave for leaving their last job was career advancement or development, with 60% of teachers who left voluntarily citing reasons related to this category.”

    • New York Times
    • 03/26/18

    “Why do we react this way to feedback that is ostensibly supposed to help us? Essentially, it’s because all of us are so awful at delivering negative feedback. It’s a self-reinforcing vicious circle that trains us to avoid what would make us better at work and in life.”

PEDAGOGY

READING/WRITING

    • The Millions
    • 03/19/18

    “I sat in the dark staring at my laptop. I was well into my second hour of watching sword fights on YouTube. I switched between samurai movies, anime, medieval battle scenes, and pirate duels. Two of my students just kept writing about sword fights, and I was trying to be a better teacher. If I was going to critique the battle scenes in their novels-in-progress, I needed to understand what made a good sword fight.”

SOCIAL MEDIA

STEM

    • KQED
    • 03/18/18

    “What I appreciated most is how humanizing our conversations were of mathematics — in terms of who was doing it — and how much curiosity students brought to the mathematical ideas they were exposed to.”

SUSTAINABILITY

TECH

WORKPLACE

Z-OTHER

Issues

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Peter Nilsson

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