Thursday, June 15, 2023

PART II: The Four Mistaken Goals of the Discouraged Child

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  The Four Mistaken Goals of the Discouraged Child   What I love most about Dreikurs' psychology is his clarity about boundaries -- both...
Monday, June 5, 2023

Belongingness Comes First: Classroom Management through a Harm-Reducing Lens -- PART 1

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  This is a post that has been rattling around in my mind for a long time, but this has been the year when colleagues younger and older have...
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Monday, June 13, 2022

Choices Have Consequences: How the 9th Grade Failures at Lowell Shine a Spotlight on SFUSD's Literacy Emergency

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By Megan Potente and Elizabeth Statmore The news coverage of the rise in 9th grade Ds & Fs at Lowell High School after this first year o...
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Saturday, November 20, 2021

Why I'm In This Fight - the Future of Mathematical America

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 Jo Boaler is utterly missing the point . My argument is simply, Enough is enough. We need  all  of our children to be mathematically compet...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Piercing the Enchantment

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Having survived more than a full year of online learning, I am readier than ever to return to in-person learning.  I've been thinking a ...
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Monday, May 11, 2020

With sincerity and love to Nikole Hannah-Jones and all the beloved urban public school parents struggling to make sense of learning under quarantine

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Dear beloved urban public school parents, Please forgive me for being out of touch. I know you're worried about your child's learn...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

Rooting Out Opportunity Hoarding and Perverse Incentives in the Math Classroom

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tl;dr   The incentive structure of the math classroom is broken. I live and teach in a community where opportunity hoarding is rampant. St...
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