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Don’t Fool Yourself. Education is Politics.

Danielle Johnson

Jun 17, 2020

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Don’t Fool Yourself. Education is Politics.

Systemic oppression is endemic in public education. It’s time we faced our fears and called it out. Jared Fritzinger is a Civics and...

Meghan Raftery

May 25, 2020

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Part 1: Taekwondo as Lesson Study

I wrote this post several months ago, after conversations with a few educator colleagues whose kids attend the same martial arts school....

Meghan Raftery

May 4, 2020

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The Space Between

A few years ago, I embarked upon a Happiness Project. I created 12 theme areas I wanted to work on, then created 5 goals or habits for...

UPDATED: What If… Teachers Demanded to Be Treated Like Artists

Danielle Johnson

Apr 22, 2020

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UPDATED: What If… Teachers Demanded to Be Treated Like Artists

Note: Back by popular demand, Edjacent author Jared Fritzinger from https://edinthewild.com/ shares a response with his views on teaching...

What If... School Was Filled With Wonder and Exploration Instead of Standards

Danielle Johnson

Apr 19, 2020

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What If... School Was Filled With Wonder and Exploration Instead of Standards

Laura Solomon Parent, military spouse, aspiring educational innovator BSIE – Georgia Institute of Technology MEd, Social Foundations –...

Simple Truths From an Educator in the Wild

Danielle Johnson

Apr 19, 2020

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Simple Truths From an Educator in the Wild

Jared Fritzinger is a civics and economics teacher at Old Donation School in Virginia Beach, VA. He has been teaching for about 9 years....

Calling All Educators: Peace, Love, Books, and Clarity

Danielle Johnson

Apr 14, 2020

EDUCATOR/ENTREPRENEURS

Calling All Educators: Peace, Love, Books, and Clarity

Kristen Hildum, a retired teacher and school librarian, owns a bookshop with her family that is uniquely situated in a vintage Airstream...

What if… All Educators Were Assessment Literate?

Doug Wren

Apr 11, 2020

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What if… All Educators Were Assessment Literate?

Doug Wren is a consultant and author of the book Assessing Deeper Learning: Developing, Implementing, and Scoring Performance Tasks. He...

What If… High Schools Were For Electives

Meghan Raftery

Apr 6, 2020

EDUCATOR/ENTREPRENEURS

What If… High Schools Were For Electives

The "what if" series focuses on imagining what could be possible for schools in the future - throwing out old notions of what schools are...

Danielle Johnson

Apr 2, 2020

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The Upside of Disruption in Our Lives

Laura Solomon Parent, military spouse, aspiring educational innovator BSIE – Georgia Institute of Technology MEd, Social Foundations –...

Meghan Raftery

Mar 26, 2020

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A Novel Opportunity

Gordon has been an educator for 17 years. For the first sixteen years, he taught English exclusively to “at-risk” students with the last...

Danielle Johnson

Mar 25, 2020

EDUCATOR/ENTREPRENEURS

Virtual (R)Evolution

At any given time, you will find Jaime Kurowski either parenting, teaching, reading, writing, wood-burning, or fiercely trying to shift...

Thoughts on Standardized Testing After the Storm Has Passed

Doug Wren

Mar 25, 2020

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Thoughts on Standardized Testing After the Storm Has Passed

Doug Wren has worked in public education for nearly three decades—half of that time as a classroom teacher. He recently retired from...

Danielle Johnson

Mar 23, 2020

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Keeping the Balance with Home Learning

Annette Conley has been teaching for more than 30 years. Currently, she is the Reading Specialist at Thoroughgood Elementary in Virginia...

Danielle Johnson

Mar 20, 2020

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Envisioning Learning and Blended Online School Scenarios for the Next 18 Months and Beyond

Edjacent note: This post was written by Edjacent fan and early supporter Chris Jacobs just days into the pandemic. Chris has since...

Preparing to Working Remotely While Your Kids are Home From School? 5 Essential Tips

Meghan Raftery

Mar 12, 2020

EDUCATOR/ENTREPRENEURS

Preparing to Working Remotely While Your Kids are Home From School? 5 Essential Tips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m67JbGjWnc COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has many schools and businesses scrambling to quickly find ways for...

Meghan Raftery

Aug 29, 2019

EDUCATOR/ENTREPRENEURS

The Perfect Lesson

The Perfect Lesson It’s time to start writing a lesson for Tuesday. What do you use as a basis for planning? Is it: a. The lesson the day...

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