A great reflective piece on a 6.5 hour PD session with mostly sitting and getting: I really appreciate how you went through exactly how you were feeling throughout this “day of learning.” Each time you felt bored or compliant, I could see you clearly in that space. I think I …
We should all be so lucky as to have a teacher that is reaching out like this and creating new opportunities for learning with their kids: Regardless of whether or not this “gets big”, you have done something spectacular here. The risk you are taking is not simply for trying …
The Deaf and Hard Of Hearing education bloggers are seemingly in their own part of the blogophere, but I think there are wonderful implications for their ideas for the rest of us: Your emphasis on giving these children (and their families) mentors is wonderful. The type of mentorship that you …
Read this story, and empathize with this child: This is such an amazing story about your son, and one that I believe MANY more people should read and learn from. I sometimes forget that our kids are physical beings just as much as they are amazing and creative minds. I …
I love this consideration of play from a Principal in AR: I really love the question you captioned one of the photos with: “Can you find the teacher?” I think this is at the heart of why play matters so much. If everyone in the room (or the wide open …
A wonderful story of the important soft skills that are taught in the every day actions in the classroom: Your companion video to this post is pretty profound in its reflection upon actual practice and our ability, as educators, to change and shift based upon this reflection. The fact that …
This is what happens when you see the community as potential teachers for your classroom: I am so glad that you have enumerated all of the wonderful speakers you have brought into your classroom to connect your students to life outside of your school. This is a beautiful statement for …
I think that many teachers would benefit from simply writing about their teaching experience in such a reflective manner: This seems as much like a modern version of an Educational Philosophy as anything I have read on a blog recently. You are able to point out the things you believe …
Don’t accept when people tell you there was a golden age of school. Don’t accept when folks try to construct a “correct” way to read: I really appreciate your analysis of what it means to be “dumb” in school, or at least when you get that label applied to you. …
What a wonderful passage and analysis of what culturally responsive teaching can look like: I just wanted to take a moment and thank you for this wonderful dissection and extension of this passage to make it relevant and meaning for yourself. You have taken the most important elements of these …