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Day 101 (of 2024/25) whew – a holiday anchoring systemic discrimination is on a pro-d day! Just pointing out that the stores and schools are currently pushing yet another anchor to one religion above all others… St Valentines Day. A day/event/quasi-holiday where we push the importance of relationships of a romantic type (but not an…

Day 100 (of 2024/25) a second book share (having just finished and thinking about banned books) Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe e/em/eir for #pinkshirtmonth Start the calls to ban the book here! People gonna hate hate hate hate … but it’s a great book. I know many will get caught up on the images that…

Day 99 (of 2024/25) If only there were a place where youth could gather to practice skills and learn a/effective strategies to best use the most powerful tool to disrupt traditional education… #tEChursday  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8plvqv60lo Channeling my inner tay-tay as I know ‘haters gonna hate hate hate’, but there is a bit of ‘yep’ in my…

Day 98 (of 2024/25) Global School Play Day @gsplayday Big thanks to the @bedleybros – @scotteach and @tbed63 who first got the momentum for a day of play rolling. I am heavily emphasizing that if we say something is important (reading, mathing, writing, netiquette…. Playing) we need to model it and not just wish for…

Day 97 (of 2024/25) snow ❄️ day The timing of the announcement of a snow day was later than I expected… there was a good amount of snow on the ground and others in our region had taken the ‘better safe than sorry’ call to close their district We are in a unique environment. We…

I love Will’s views on education – was greatly inspired by an earlier book of his, Why School? and the look at how a platform like Minecraft might be better at engaging, motivating and encouraging learning than most classrooms and schools. And to end 2024, he came up with A Manifesto on “Confronting Education In…

Day 95 (of 2024/25) closing #literacyweek with a thought on banned books – subtle and overt Except for ebooks, no library can hold copies of every book ever written… and even as to “what’s best” – the shelves will vary. I went through a phase of reading every Guinness collection. Every Choose Your Own Adventure.…

Day 94 (of 2924/25) #tEChursday the depletion of online reading tools are why reading scores are dropping… Not going to go deep into screen vs paper tablets. For me, if it has you reading text, it’s awesome. If you’re listening to a book… well – at least there are some similar skills going on in…

I have some thoughts when I see articles panicking about reading test scores: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/reading-test-scores-american-students-5fb78d4e I chuckle a bit because when a new program is declared ‘the one way’, it doesn’t always end up doing what we hope it will do… and snicker with “They also caution that the reading results don’t speak to the effectiveness…

Day 92 (of 2024/25) #literacyweek putting more of what we do/know about reading and writing into the numbers “We” have done so well over the past decades in literature finding a balance (knowing that word itself is triggering) student reading between independent rates and ‘age defined standards’ that do not always factor in schema or…