#Teachers

Just finished "It's a Sin" - what a beautifully devastating piece of art. It's reignited important conversations around HIV-AIDS and ensuring that history is not forgotten.Don't let your learning stop
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ADHD really is a thing that was named for how it annoys parents and teachers rather than what it's actually like to live with, huh. Compiling a thing on lived
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We've been falsely told 'schools are safe', 'don't drive community transmission', & teachers don't have a higher risk of infection repeatedly by govt & their advisors- to justify some of
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Today I conducted an experiment. I read DIARY OF A WIMPY KID.The questions to be answered were twofold:1. Could I see why the series is so popular?2. Are they as
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Why are so many students posting Fs in remote learning?Texas failed to properly prep for the fall. They delayed needed guidance+gave conflicting messages — squandering time educators had to plan.https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/20/tex
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This is a great thread, and it reminds me of the Talmudic story (Sanhedrin 102b) of Rav Ashi, who teased his next day's lecture by saying "tomorrow we will discuss
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Fact 1: Schools are workplaces where 20-30 people who, based on recent research, can spread the virus very efficiently gather together in a 200 sq ft space with no other
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I have heard from a lot of teachers in response to my Vox piece on schools. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/7/9/21318560/covid-19-coronavirus-us-testing-children-schools-reopening-questionsIt breaks my heart becau
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Poetry is my love. I adore teaching it. I blog on it. I don't always like the constraints of the Anthology but KS3 and the unseen element allow for full
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Has the covid-19 press conference ever been on time? Even once? I guess it takes time to spin the bad news the way UCP likes it. Okay, some thoughts:How much
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My first startup (LessonTab) failed.Here are few lessons from the failure.- A thread My partner and I met in Atlanta. We moved to Lagos, Nigeria to build a startup that
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ICYMI: @Ofstednews annual report kept the @tes news team busy yesterday! The truncated version: 1. First we had a warning about "poor phonics teaching’". Schools were urged not to "explain'"
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Much of this might not be unnecessary as John Swinney has announced there will be some sort of u-turn on Tuesday, but in the absence of any detail I think
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#Thread on reopening physical school buildings.How to open schools? It's a team effort in a time where we have divided ourselves as a nation and as communities.Decisions will need to
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1/6 In our “On Teaching” project, the most experienced teachers in America’s education system reflect on their careers, their schools, and the history they’ve witnessed. 2/6 Since Booker T. Washington
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I see there's some fierce discourse raging about the "Western canon" and which books get taught to kids in school. I don't really have a strong opinion, but I have
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