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With Tech Taking Over in Schools, Worries Rise
Education In The news… Technology companies are collecting a vast amount of data about students, touching every corner of their educational lives with few controls on how those details are used. Now California is poised to become the first state to comprehensively restrict how such information is exploited by the growing education technology industry. Here […]
Gearing Up For NaNoWriMo!!!
Have any of you ever heard of National Novel Writing Month before? The month of November has been set aside every year for the past fifteen years by the NaNoWriMo organization for budding authors and students to devote one month to writing an entire novel! I think that this idea is really cool, because it […]
Hardest and Most Rewarding
Teaching can be extremely difficult, but I think we can all agree that it is the challenge that makes the profession so rewarding. Teaching is one of the only professions where you can play a role in actively shaping the future. We may teach the next Einstein of the world, the worlds greatest mom/dad, the […]
Another reason we are inspired to become teachers…
Coming up this winter, we will all remember the terrible shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Especially going into education I’m sure this hit home for a lot of us. Here is a very inspiration letter I found from a mom who lost her daughter in the shooting. Just another reminder of the inspiring profession […]
Morning Meeting Resources
http://www.slideshare.net/MandieFunk/morning-meeting-activites Here is a link to a great site with a wide variety of morning meeting ideas.
Bill Harley’s Musical Stories
This summer one of my coworkers introduced met to Bill Harley, a performer who sings songs and stories for children. The kids stayed captivated as they listened to him. This is a great one, but if you show it to kids get ready for them to sing “you’re not the boss of me” at you […]
“Shake Your Sillies Out” – Morning Meeting Song
Hi Everyone! Here is the song that Lauren and I used in our Morning Meeting. It is called, “Shake Your Sillies Out!” Enjoy!
Teaching social justice in the classroom
After talking about how we can teach social justice in the classroom, I found this website, (originally found it through Pinterest 🙂 ) and thought it was a great resource for teachers and parents. It has books that you can purchase, “anti-bias education” lesson plans, free articles on racial and cultural diversity, documentaries that are child-appropriate, […]
Representation of Males (Don’t forget about them!)
Someone who is important to me believes that while it is so important to empower women and have discussions about things such as media representations, we must talk about the images and ideas presented by the media that show boys how they are supposed to behave. Take a look at this article and ensure that […]
Something we should be on the watch for: “He for She”
Here is Emma Watson’s Speech to the UN talking about feminism and the “He for She” campaign