A Principal's Reflections
DECEMBER 29, 2024
I must say that 2024 has been crazy in a good way. It was the first full year that my consultancy, Aspire Change EDU, served education systems worldwide. While this kept me super busy, it also impacted my blogging schedule. Well, that and the fact that it is so difficult to come up with unique topics to write about. I must not be the only one in this boat, as there are fewer and fewer education bloggers these days.
Zinn Education Project
DECEMBER 29, 2024
The morning after election day I read to my students the line from Howard Zinn about how what matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but who is sitting in. I told them I promised to sit in by teaching the truth no matter who is sitting in the White House. 8th grade teacher, Oregon By Emily Simons via Media Justice. Teaching truthfully is more important than ever.The airwaves are full of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants and calls for mass deportations.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 29, 2024
Hi, everyone. This week Im sharing a conversation with Nick Fuller Googins, who teaches fourth grade in Saco, Maine. Hes also the author of The Great Transition , a novel about a future in which people have come together to cut emissions to net zero and halt planetary collapse. The book focuses on a family thats been relocated to Nuuk, Greenland. The mother, Kristina, and father, Larch, hold different views on retribution for former oil executives and other climate criminals, a tension that app
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