New organization and report promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion in education orgs
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- Announcement of the new organization seeded from Bellwether is here: Exciting News, Ahead of the Heard
- Report is here: Unrealized Impact
The Hochman Method has a new book
I have been privileged to attend a few workshops now on these writing strategies, and have begun including them in my work with teachers here in the Bronx. My blog post on the strategies is listed on TWR’s webpage. Nice to see my little logo up there alongside NY Times, Washington Post, and The Atlantic. 🙂
The book is on pre-sale here and you can find workshops on the method from TWR here and from WITsi here.
The invisible crop killer
“Research has shown dicamba vapor can travel up to three miles, and symptoms may not manifest themselves for weeks after application. Crops with herbicide injury aren’t covered by crop insurance, and proving who was responsible and recovering damages is a little like having a hit and run on your car in the parking lot at Walmart.”
STUCK IN THE DICAMBA CLOUD, The Daily Yonder
Kids struggling with disrupted education need coherent systems of support
“Thoughtfully creating coherent systems of support that enable all students to graduate from high school prepared to enter college or the workforce requires a wholesale rethinking of the ways in which education and social service agencies interact with one another, with the children in their care, and with families and caregivers.”
This one critical and overlooked aspect of the incoherency that kids experience in our educational systems. I would add to this the incoherency in content, instructional practices, and expectations to that list.
This was a key argument in support of common standards and content. Students who are struggling are often the ones who change living situations most frequently, and they experience an incoherent mess of content across classrooms and schools, rather than a thoughtfully sequenced and coherent set of topics, themes, and skills.
Korman & Rotherham: You Can Help Schools and Social Service Agencies Collaborate Better for Students, The 74
MOOCs and metacognition
Nice little profile on Barbara Oakley and her work, made freely and easily accessible via MOOC, on how to learn how to learn. Includes useful learning tips for students.
Learning to Learn: You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain, NY Times
ClassDojo moves beyond behavior management
ClassDojo is expanding out its repertoire beyond a behavior tracking system to include some really useful tools such as a random student selector, a noise meter, and a timer.
All of these tools can be projected from the front of the room while the teacher controls it using a smartphone.
Well-designed tools such as Google Classroom, Plickers, and ClassDojo are slowly shifting classroom tech use away from mere novelties and distractions.
ClassDojo Launches “Toolkit” to Help All Teachers Create Incredible Classrooms, PR Newswire
Abundance is also a state of mind
“Having enough is a matter of perspective. And sometimes people with just enough lead remarkably rich lives.”
IN A TIME OF ENOUGH, GENEROSITY IS SCARCE, Daily Yonder
Schools & Ecosystems 