Tag: 9-11
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Six Things K-12 Education is Keeping From You and Your Student
Twenty-five years after 9/11 and retired from the classroom, I’m still incredulous that we powered through a state testing session before telling our students about the attack. Today, I‘m thinking about what else educators kept from kids during my own twenty-five years in the classroom… and what was kept from their parents. 1.) Your “permanent…
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Time Is up
We were in the mud of testing. State Testing. The down and dirty that ELA teachers lived and dreaded in the first few weeks of school, after showing tips, sharing tricks, drafting, drawing, hoping, and praying our sophomores could engage and remember— and score high enough to graduate. Their desks were spread apart, facing forward.…
