Inspirations for Teaching Growth & Planning

Articles and Ideas here help shape my practice and change my lessons. I'm using this as both a clarifying place and an imaginative place, so what you see here is not the finished product but the origins of ideas. I hope to record how they flow from idea through research to planning. Eventually, I'd like to revisit the original ideas here and report how they came to fruition and what the results were.

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Tosha Caston-Smith shared Our emerging framework for teaching and learning with you.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

How Dorothea Lange Taught Us To See Hunger And Humanity

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I want to live in a Unites States that "scrutinizes itself visually" and in all ways.

Perhaps the kids can write their own loving scrutiny of what they see.


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How Dorothea Lange Taught Us To See Hunger And Humanity

NPR - Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar in this field noways. [sic] Working from seven in the morning until twelve noon, we earn an average of thirty-five cents." California, February 1937 Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress

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This Massive New Project Is Great News for Homeless Vets in Los Angeles | Mother Jones

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Can Tiny Houses Help Fix Homelessness? | Mother Jones

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Year 1 Homeless Vets


Bring in Law Academy, Engineering Academy, Green Team, AP Psychology, and counseling dept. and the science department for land rights, home design, structure building and materials, fundraising, awareness campaign, solar, water, off-the-grid.

Side note: Veterans' Park


Year 2 - Women and children



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Can tiny houses help fix homelessness?

Mother Jones - Similar projects to put tiny roofs over people's heads have popped up in a handful of US cities. This new approach to homelessness offers the physical protection of a traditional shelter without sacrificing the autonomy of life on the street. And it's undoubtedly time for some new options: An estimated 578,424 Americans had no home in 2014. While twenty-eight percent of renter households live below the poverty line, the typical new apartment in 2012 was unaffordable to anyone making under $43,000.

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This Massive New Project Is Great News for Homeless Vets in Los Angeles | Mother Jones

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Could we focus on homeless vets? I wouldn't want to leave out women.



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Silicon Valley discovers the cheapest way to help the homeless: Give them homes.

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Class project?


But how to account for preconceived notions (including my own) of homelessness and varied approaches toward helping them? 


Consider the value of doing anything in this area of need.



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Silicon Valley discovers the cheapest way to help the homeless: Give them homes.

Mother Jones - Curtis Randle, who had been chronically homeless for about eight years, holds the keys to his apartment at New Hope Housing in Houston, Texas. Johnny Hanson/AP Santa Clara County is perhaps best known as the home of Silicon Valley. It also has one of the country's highest rates of homelessness and its third largest chronically homeless population.

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LongRead Education for this summer

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The Teaching Brain and the Science Behind Great Teaching | Getting Smart

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This is one of my favorite pieces in a long time. It focuses on some of the most important aspects of teaching.



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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

One Man’s Millions Turn a Community in Florida Around - NYTimes.com



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Google Forms: Reusing Them Next Year

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Google Forms: Reusing Them Next Year

alicekeeler.com - Hopefully, you have figured out by now that Google Forms is the best thing since sliced bread. If you are trying to be paperless, Google Forms is a must have. Not only are you paperless but all of your information is typed and in a single location. No more shuffling or losing papers. The data from the Google Form goes to a Google spreadsheet. Once your information is in a spreadsheet the things you can do with it are nearly limitless. How many times have you dug through a stack of papers to find one kid's name only to confirm that it is missing. Instead use Control F (Find) on the spreadsheet and know in seconds if the student submitted answers or not.

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Redefining Teachers with a 21st Century Education ‘Story’ | MindShift | KQED News



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Monday, May 25, 2015

Teachers of the Year tell us what's holding students back and where they'd spend education money

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Asked what barriers to learning their students face that affect academic success the most, 76 percent of the teachers said family stress, 63 percent said poverty, and 52 percent said learning and psychological problems.



 

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Teachers of the Year tell us what's holding students back and where they'd spend education money

Daily Kos - Every year, each state chooses its teacher of the year. This year, the Council of Chief State School Officers and Scholastic surveyed those outstanding teachers about their jobs, and it's worth paying attention to what they have to say about the barriers their students face and where they'd direct education funding. Asked what barriers to learning their students face that affect academic success the most, 76 percent of the teachers said family stress, 63 percent said poverty, and 52 percent said learning and psychological problems.

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Teaching better. My pedagogical to-do list

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Teaching better. My pedagogical to-do list

headguruteacher.com - I've been a teacher for 27 years and two terms and this much I know….. What do you mean that's been done?! 27 years though! Scary number. I'm on a path to being a life-long teacher, never having had any other kind of job. Obviously it's a bit different being a Headteacher but I've always been a teacher too – next year I'm taking on a GCSE Maths class. I can't wait. There are lots of reasons to love teaching but one that has sustained me is that constant challenge to teacher better. My entire experience of teaching has been that my lessons never seem to go to plan; it's never quite right. I'm always thinking that, if perhaps I'd done something else instead, it might have been a better lesson. I used to worry about that – but now I see it as normal and healthy. Of course, every so often, I deliver a belter – where it all just sings beautifully; a perfect symphony of learning. But that's rare. I wrote a basic Teaching To-Do list at the start of the year but, recently, as ever, I've been absorbing more ideas from all around me. Some affirm things I think I do already; others cut through my armour, making me think I really need to do things a bit differently.

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