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Always the beautiful answer Who asks a more beautiful question. -E.E. Cummings photo credit: What is this key for? via photopin (license) Early Literacy Research: Findings Primary-Grade Teachers Will Want to Know by D. Ray Reutzal (The Reading Teacher, July/August 2015) The Dean of the College of Education at the University of Wyoming addresses the most…
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My Favorite Teachers Use Social Media: A Student Perspective by Katie Benmar (Education Week, April 21, 2015) Student voice is so often missing in conversations about education, that it is almost a surprise when we hear it above the din of educators. Katie Benmar, a high school student in Seattle, shares both the benefits…
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Leadership is 90 percent pulling weeds and 10 percent planting seeds.- Austan Goolsbee Common Core Reading: Difficult, Dahl, Repeat by Cory Turner (nprED, November 15, 2014) National Public Radio profiled a fifth grade classroom and their use of Common Core-aligned texts and practices. Turner described one lesson on close reading, with the teacher getting…
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“Children are always on task; the important question is, what is the task?” – Peter Johnston For Millennials, the End of the TV Viewing Party by Alex Williams (New York Times, November 7, 2014) With the advent of the smartphone, landlines are starting to become a thing of the past. But what about television? Williams…
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“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.” – Steve Jobs, in his 2005 Stanford University graduation speech, about being fired from Apple High-achieving teacher sues state over evaluation labeling her “ineffective” by Valerie Strauss (Washington Post, October 31, 2014) A New York City educator with an impeccable…