Important Words
The Gist: What questions do you have? Push my thinking. Say more. The Whole Story: As it turns out, more than my habits of practice have been informed by the educators with whom I find myself...
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Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can kill my soul. Leaving the locker room after P.E. in the ninth grade, Brian and Travis would call me faggot under their breaths. I wasn’t sure how...
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A few weeks ago, I was observing a student teacher. In our debrief, I said, “When you’re asking students for answers, you put those answers into your own words much of the time. What might that say to...
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41: Why do we need an Urban Dictionary? #LifeWideLearning16 @mrchase (for ref: https://t.co/T862N3fSnV) — Ben Wilkoff (@bhwilkoff) February 10, 2016 In first grade, my mom and I moved to Kentucky....
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