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Ben Wilkoff
3,651 posts since 2005. My name is Ben Wilkoff, and I Teach. And Learn. A Lot.
- Community RulesI joined Twitter in March of 2007. In the five thousand four hundred and forty-six days since then, I have tweeted nearly 19,000 times. That is a…Learning
- Our dishwasher is broken, and I like it that way.I just finished cleaning up the last of the detritus from our Super Bowl Festivities last night. We had a neighbor family over for “the big game”…humanityInspiration
- I’m not a good neighbor.My house, and more importantly my driveway, face to the south. This means that at no time during the day, does my house throw shade onto my…
- Am I a Bank now?I set up my first bank account with Wells Fargo when I arrived for college in Colorado during the fall in 2001. It was in the local Safeway branch…
- From Mastery to InquiryI have often considered Mastery to be the thing to which all students should strive. I have thought of it as the pinnacle of achievement in any…LearningThinking
- Parents vs. Teachers?I am not entirely sure when it happened, but at some point in the last 50 years, teachers became “Other.” They became people who come from outside…Learning
- Fascism isn’t cool… for long.Teenagers are a construct that has propelled popular culture forward for 100 years. But, prior to the end of the first World War, they mostly…humanity
- Asking ForgivenessI ran across an incredibly insightful tweet this week, one that I could not ignore or get out of my head since I saw it: A1: Forgiveness is not a…Growth
- Why I left Public Education (and then came back).In November of 2010, I became the first ever Online Community Manager for Edmodo. I was the 13th employee at a startup that was barely two years…GrowthLearning
- What Happens When Middle Schoolers Read Maus?I was introduced to the graphic novel, Maus (I and II), in my second year of teaching. I took over an existing Gifted and Talented program from a…Classroom Resources