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"Trust Your Students" - Remote Summit 2020
On Monday, July 13, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis presented at the REMOTE summit hosted by Arizona State University. Our talk, “ Trust...
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Cameras Optional, Please! Remembering Student Lives As We Plan Our Online Syllabus
As I prepare for my day of Zoom, WebEx, and MicroSoft Office meetings, a guy stands outside my bathroom window. My meeting starts at 9:30. It is 9:00...
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Through the Looking Glass
While sparcing down my classroom kitsch, I found one of my favorite books. It is an old copy of Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures and Wonderland The...
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Geographies of Teaching
(Floating Keys) I totally have that song Breakout in my head by Swing Out Sister. I've been singing it around the house. In the Gilford House, my...
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Teaching Expiration Date?
With all that is going on now it is hard to keep up. Some days I totally want to unplug and I do. Other days I am hooked on the T.V. watching the...
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An Interview with Cathy Davidson: Trust, Community and Paired Expertise
Futures Initiative Interview Collection: Team-taught Courses One of the Futures Initiative’s key programs is a set of interdisciplinary and inter-...
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Differentiated Learning Should be Key to Anti-Racist Learning (and vice versa)
My apologies for going a bit MIA over the last months. My excuse (shameless plug alert!!!) was that I was co-writing a book (with Steve Volk , co-...
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Are PK-12 Teachers Blue-Collar?
(pic while doing laundry at our local laundromat) Are PK-12 teachers blue-collar? Duh-fa? I was talking with a friend a couple of years ago...
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Fe Fi Fo Fum
Fe Fi Fo Fum...the seeds have been flung and the stalk grows. I climb it and my foot gets stuck, I slide, stick back on, and slink back up. I face my...
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Yes, And...Virtual Clubs!
(Peanut Butter Jelly Time from The Gilfords' Kitchen circa 2020) Have you found yourself singing to your students when you are teaching? I have. In...
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Virtual School Culture
Every time I try to organize my makeshift office in our dining room, I spend half the time taking a trip down memory lane. In a school box there was...
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Simon Says Mindfulness Enhances Learning
As a group we watched, “Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last,” a Pop-Up School presentation sponsored by Behance. Then, an EdX MOOC entitled, “...
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Silverlining Sceneius
It occurred to me this morning, that I know some really smart people. One of them is Vicki Davis, she is an amazing teacher. She is one of the...
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Vlogs, GIFs, Twine, and Macros: Multimodal Writing
Vlogs, GIFs, Twine, & Macros Multimodal Writing ENGL 2150 Fall 2018 *** Jesse Rice-Evans, Graduate Teaching Fellow M 5:10-7:20; Vertical Campus...
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1st Assignment: How to Write a Professional Email
In this first assignment of the year, inspired by Professor of English and History at Schoolcraft College, Steven L. Berg , students in my EC1 ALP...
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Where's the Red Cross?
Where's the Red Cross? Lately, I have been reading up on the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic and the Red Cross played a central role in recovery. Many...
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I'm Ready with Jazz Hands!
Sometimes you know when you are ready! Ready. You've had a dream for a while and know that fruition and harvest times are nearby. That is how I have...
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Take Aways from HGSE's Education Now: What "Reopening" Means for Early Education
One of the awesome sliverlinings of this moment is that teachers have greater access to professional development opportunities for free!! I just...
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Anatomy of a Team Meeting
At the Futures Initiative (FI), we have a 2-hour meeting with the whole team every week where we plan our collective work, update each other on the...
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Class Recap: The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
For today's English Composition 1 class, we read June Jordan's " Poem About My Rights ," and two essays by Audre Lorde from Sister Outsider , "Poetry...
