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The Real World

  • Post author:Jen
  • Post published:March 30, 2019
  • Post category:Building Community/Teaching
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What is this "real world" you speak of? Who defines it? Is it the same "real world" for everyone? I was recently in conversation with colleagues about class attendance.  Now,…

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Reacting VS Responding

  • Post author:Mira Williams
  • Post published:August 24, 2018
  • Post category:Building Community/First Year Teaching/Teaching
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Yell and sit…sit and yell, get a little louder, be a little firmer…they’ll eventually listen-right? Wrong. I walked into a room recently where an educator was sitting on a bench…

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I’m Here To Learn

  • Post author:Bev Chatfield
  • Post published:August 6, 2018
  • Post category:First Year Teaching/Teaching/Uncategorized
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A little about me in the month before my first year begins To be perfectly honest, I’m nervous about my first year of teaching. I’ve spent the summer reviewing learning…

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Recess Is A Right

  • Post author:Jen
  • Post published:July 9, 2018
  • Post category:Building Community/Inclusion/Teaching
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I posted a picture on our social media of a tweet from the 2006 MN Teacher of the Year Dr. Lee-Ann Stephens that read:  Advice to a new elementary school…

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We Need To Talk About Punishment

  • Post author:Jen
  • Post published:June 13, 2018
  • Post category:Building Community/Inclusion/Teaching
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Recently, after working with teachers on shifting our approach from punishing to teaching, a teacher in attendance emailed me saying, "At first, I wasn't sure I was going to "buy…

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Embracing Failure

  • Post author:Jen
  • Post published:May 15, 2018
  • Post category:Building Community/Teaching
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I am a big fan of mistake making.  Well, not the making of the mistakes part so much but of the learning from mistakes, expecting mistakes, embracing mistakes.  What if…

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Course Evaluations as Thoughtful Feedback

  • Post author:Jen
  • Post published:April 29, 2018
  • Post category:Building Community/Inclusion/Teaching
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It's that time of the semester again. Course evaluations.  True confession time:  I don't actually read mine.  I am far too thin skinned for that.  I send them to a…

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When Social Media & Professionalism Mash Up

  • Post author:Jen
  • Post published:March 5, 2018
  • Post category:Building Community/Inclusion
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Scrolling through social media, as I often mindlessly do, I am repeatedly reminded of the powerful educators with whom I am in community. It is not my community. It is…

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What Has Changed Since We Were Kids

  • Post author:Jen
  • Post published:February 18, 2018
  • Post category:Building Community
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I am finding myself rageful lately.  The politics in this country no longer reflect dialogue I'm even remotely familiar with and each day we experience a new tragedy or outrage…

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