Parents
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Top 12 Global Teacher Blogger Discussion: July 2016
What are the important skills, behaviors, and attitudes that students need to become contributing global citizens?…
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YouTube, Armor, and Winning the War
As some of you know, Ian has a YouTube channel (link). He’s been making and uploading…
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Melissa Bowers: 7 Reasons You Might Not Want to Teach Anymore
This is the post I wish I wrote. Melissa Bowers captures the plight of a teacher…
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Top 12 Global Teacher Blogger Discussion: March 2016
What are the best examples you have seen of teachers closing the gender gap in education?…
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Joshua Katz’s TEDx Talk: Toxic Culture of Education
Joshua Katz describes perfectly the plight of American education, the damage it does to our lower…
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Friday Writing Challenge: I Miss High School
Prompt: Something you miss I miss high school—not my teenage years but the years I spent…
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Friday Writing Challenge: 10 Interesting Facts About Myself
This week’s prompt: Ten interesting facts about yourself. I’m a first generation American, born from Macedonian…
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The Philanthropic Experience: A Student’s Perspective
One of my current college composition student wrote a personal narrative essay that beautifully illustrates one…
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Radio Interview: Inside Education with Sid Glassner
If you missed my radio interview on Inside Education with Sid Glassner, here is the link: http://www.girardatlarge.com/2016/01/inside-education-author-introduces-the-uncommon-core/…
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Friday Writing Challenge: A Favorite Movie
Inside Out I know. This is a Wednesday, but when I started writing about Inside Out…
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Friday Writing Challenge: Memories
Five childhood memories. 1968-ish: When I was about three or four (it was when we lived…
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Kaplan’s “Path to Recess”
Excellent post about what is truly important for success. The “soft skills” Kaplan refers to are…
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Friday Writing Challenge: Tattoos
Writing Prompt #2: What tattoos do you have, or what tattoos would you get, and why? July…
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Blessing 27: Nelson
My father-in-law, Nelson Hawkins, was a blessing in my life for so many reasons. Even during…