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Catlin Tucker
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Reading logs are a controversial topic. Amy Tobener-Talley teaches ELA, ELD, and Digital Technology at a dual-immersion language school in Sonoma County. She is bilingual (Spanish), Google certified, and passionate about leveraging her 15 years of experience to modernize teaching and learning.
Becoming a History Teacher
AUGUST 15, 2024
This blog is jointly authored by Vic Crooks and Laura London based on a presentation we gave at the Historical Association Conference in May 2024. Photo by Mathias Reding on Pexels.com We both began our teaching careers shortly after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. London, L., & Haydn, T.
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Dangerously Irrelevant
JANUARY 12, 2021
Following up on my previous post , I’m going to share a fantastic blog post from Michael Kaechele : I have grown weary of the call to avoid controversial topics and stay neutral. Teaching and leading for higher student engagement … even during a pandemic (aka How I spent my summer). Silence is compliance.
Dangerously Irrelevant
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
As I noted in a previous blog post , our information landscape is changing both rapidly and drastically. For instance, teaching online information literacy by pre-selecting a small handful of resources for students to analyze is vastly different from teaching students to navigate and make sense of our vast, complex online information commons.
C3 Teachers
JUNE 6, 2024
However, I hope that somewhere on the list is one challenge that I think never really goes away (and maybe never should): teaching controversial issues. This post will not spend time arguing why controversy needs to be taught in the classroom. The point is, controversial topics WILL make it into your classroom.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 15, 2016
Word Generation introduces new words by embedding them in brief texts about controversial issues of interest to many adolescents, such as steroid use among athletes, legalization of euthanasia, and censorship of libraries and popular music. This curriculum taught deep reading and comprehension skills, discussion, argumentation, and writing.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
Word Generation introduces new words by embedding them in brief texts about controversial issues of interest to many adolescents, such as steroid use among athletes, legalization of euthanasia, and censorship of libraries and popular music. This curriculum taught deep reading and comprehension skills, discussion, argumentation, and writing.
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