'The Resistance Mapping website functions as a living, digital archive that documents the history of racist housing and other place-based policies in Rochester and the surrounding region. The materials explore how Rochester’s current segregation emerges from that history and confronts these realities through stories of past and present activism, along with creative imagined possibilities for our community’s future.'
I endured my first genuine lockdown at school today. It was endless and terrifying. An hour of hiding while the police handled an armed intruder on campus—on the playground, not inside the school. I didn’t see the armed intruder, but I did watch cops with AR15s in the ready position jiggle the door handles to check if they were locked.
In the end everyone was safe & uninjured, but we all were shaken. Makes me secondguess my job choice. But the kids? They’re required to be here. My lesson this week was unintentionally a propos: how to self-regulate with box-breathing. #today#teaching#libraries
"A “Standard” Personal Finance Curriculum is designed as a high school personal finance course. It is divided into seven units that address the six National Standards for Financial Literacy and a standard on decisionmaking, respectively. Each unit includes a description, talking points, and links to recommended resources for teaching the given standard, along with a selection of supplemental resources. The talking points are introductory comments and information about the content for each unit. Recommended resources include lessons, videos, and online modules. Thus, the curriculum is designed with flexibility for teachers to select the individual resources that best meet the needs of their classes. The curriculum also includes a glossary of terms and a matrix that aligns all of the recommended and supplemental resources with the national standards." #PersonalFinance https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/a-standard-personal-finance-curriculum
Free highschool personal finance course from the St. Louis Fed. The Fed is doing some great work in helping increase #FinancialLiteracy which more educators should know about!
Totally Positive Teaching: A Five-Stage Approach to Energizing Students and Teachers
Discipline problems, limited resources, crowded classrooms. Teachers face many issues each day that can wear down their love of education. How can they stay focused and energized day in and day out?
I try to be very positive and cheerful about my profession: teaching. It's a fluffing tough job and you have to see the best in it - every lesson, every day, every student. And it can be the most rewarding and important job a person could do. But, my goodness, today was a challenge. When your leaders don't seem to care about their staff and are actively making it more difficult for you, you just get worn down. But. Tomorrow is a new day. Always. #Teaching#Education#edutooter@edutooters
Disrupt the norm. That is the challenge Hamish Brewer (aka the Tattooed Skateboarding Principal) calls educators, students, families, and communities to accept. In Relentless, he authentically shares the life experiences that drive him to work relentlessly to empower people living in the toughest areas to envision and create a better future for themselves.
This is a truly important and groundbreaking book. The antithesis to Andrew Tate, Donald Trump and the like. "Lads" by Alan Bissett - very easy to read, clearly laid out, accessible guidance and advice on how not to be 'That Guy'. How to get teenage boys to read it? Now, that's the challenge... #Books#AmReading#Teaching#Education#edutooter#Lads#ThatGuy#AlanBissett@bookstodon@edutooters
Our MA Programme in English Studies has taken a group of thesis writers out to #TieteidenTalo for a writing retreat; starting with free association writing and getting everyone's fingers warmed up... 20 sets of digits tap-tapping away!
This is a fascinating book that I think all school leaders and those with the ability to create culture should read: "What Makes Teachers Unhappy and What Can You Do About It?" by Mark Solomons and Fran Abrams. Less about doughnuts in the staff room and 'optional' yoga workshops, more about real, systemic change #Teachers#Teaching#Education#WellBeing#edutooter#AmReading@education@bookstodon
This week I facilitated a session in a mechanical engineering course on values-sensitive stakeholder analysis. We talked about social and political challenges around renewable energy siting and how considering stakeholder values in design can improve outcomes for all.
Reading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies
"When students recognize that nonfiction ought to challenge us, ought to slow us down and make us think, then they're more likely to become close readers."
"Fiction invites us into the writer's imagined world; nonfiction intrudes into ours and purports to tell us something about it."
My cousin may be going abroad next year as an ESL teacher. She has studied languages herself but doesn't have ESL teacher training. She has expressed an interest in reading some good books on language teaching & ESL teaching specifically to get prepared.
Can anyone in #teaching circles recommend good books on how to teach ESL that have practical, actionable advice for a smart, educated, motivated aspiring teacher?
I'm in the #Humanities Commons instance, and we have free profiles like https://hcommons.org/members/stevemccartyinjapan that include a link to the old blue bird of Twitter, and members are increasingly leaving, so our admins at @hello might want to reconsider having that item in the next version of profiles.
There’s undeniable science behind #teaching and #learning, but #progressives in #schools go through cycles of forgetfulness in an ongoing zeal to perfect the instruments. (I say that as a progressive.) Science requires inquiry, which requires curiosity, which requires engagement and relationship. #Teachers wield a humanity that includes—but does not end with—science in their craft. #education@edutooters@edutooter@edutooter