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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

I was more of a periodical girl, with the magazines and the newspapers and an occasional novel or self-help book. And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning. A really good day is when I'm able to complete my lesson plan from beginning to end, when children are catching what I'm bringing in five seconds.

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5 Conditions for Getting Formative Assessment Right

Cult of Pedagogy

Listen to my interview with Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang ( transcript ): Sponsored by Listenwise and Scholastic Magazines+ This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. It was not learned.”

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We Must Teach Black History Like Our Lives Depend on It

ED Surge

Learning and Teaching About Black Death When I was nine years old, I learned about the murder of Emmett Till after reading his story in one of my Aunt Helen’s “Jet” magazines. Today, I have better language for talking about Black people, traditions and culture in a way that develops a deeper understanding of what it means to be fully human.

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How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age

Digital Promise

As the founder of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty states in his 2011 TED Talk: “ We are all makers. ”. To date, they have created more than 100 maker-focused lesson plans for students in Grades 1 to Grade 8 in both English and French Immersion programs. Makerspaces in Ontario Schools. Teaching Perseverence.

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Will the real Montessori please stand up?

The Hechinger Report

It was revitalized during the 1960s and grew quickly after one of the nation’s Montessori schools was featured in a Time magazine article titled “The Joy of Learning.” Parents were intrigued by the schools, which seemed to offer an alternative to traditional public schools.

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Curating a More Inclusive Library

Cult of Pedagogy

Listen to the interview with Julia Torres, Cicely Lewis, and Julie Stivers ( transcript ): Sponsored by Alpaca and Scholastic Magazines+ This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. It’s these two fathers in the South, and they’re both very traditional but their sons found each other, fell in love, and got married.

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15 Women from World History Who Made a Difference

Studies Weekly

According to the Smithsonian Magazine, she is considered one of the most powerful empresses in Chinese history. In 1966, she won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording. Her son died young, and Cixi used her political shrewdness to appoint her 4-year-old nephew Guangxu as the new emperor.