Coates

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Mason High School showing the strength of our unity and dedication to the betterment of education. We will continue to work towards creating the environment needed to best support our students.

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@SarahBoselovic too soon

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@RebekahODell1 Ron Rash, Peter Heller, Chris Offutt

Elmore Leonard's westerns

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from a Wendell Berry poem: "... so they may speak what is true, and have patience for beauty..."

Good synopsis of what we're up to in language arts.

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@CDeLotell We're headed there next week--looks chilly!

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NPR is right--McCarthy books are "stark and dark." But also hopeful--lots of students have connected with The Road over the years because it shows how "the good guys" who "carry the fire" can survive in a bleak world.
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Our Best Sellers classes loved seeing @TheBookLoftGV and getting stocked up with books and reading ideas today. Great trip planned by @CoachCBly!

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For any runners looking for a spring event, my son's Scout troop is hosting a 2 or 4 mile run in Lebanon that features a variety of surfaces and elevation changes. Date is March 18. You can register here: https://t.co/VbZHTFG59n

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Thanks to @CoachCBly for planning a great day for our students to grow a love for books, the literary community, and independent bookstores that foster both things.

[Curt Bly @CoachCBly]

Another terrific trip to @TheBookLoftGV for our Bestsellers students! Now to the @NorthMarket for lunch! @MHSCoates

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Good note from Eugene Peterson in my reading today: "Speaking to people does not have the same personal intensity as listening to them."

Second quarter goal: build in more time each week to listen

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Yes: “Grades are not a representation of student learning, as hard as it is for us to break the mindset that if the student got an A it means they learned."

[MindShift @MindShiftKQED]

Ungrading advocates say students have become so preoccupied with grades, they aren’t actually learning. And students say ungrading would make their difficult transition to college a lot less stressful. @JonMarcusBoston @hechingerreport

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Proud papa moment... She's worked super hard to keep growing and get a chance. Fun team win!

[Lebanon Softball @LHSsoftball_]

Lebanon opens the season with a 12-0 victory over Turpin. Aubrey Smith records the win with a complete game shutout and 7 Ks. Chloe Coates and Teagan Ouhl led the Warrior offense with their first career varsity HR’s. Warriors play again on Wednesday at home vs Turpin.

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Rushdie, on the power of story. From Azar Nafisi's new book, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times.

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Great example of why critical reading matters, whether the text is simple or complex. The push by politicians to regulate classroom libraries is riddled with this type of willful, dishonest misreading.

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Great reminder from author Anthony Doerr in this interview--pay attention to what you pay attention to.

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A wonderful meditation on the ambiguity that makes teaching so wonderfully challenging. And some great artwork.

[TJ Wilson @mrtjwilson]

Teaching is difficult *and* deeply fulfilling. Probably can't have one without the other. But there are things you realize when you get far into the career, difficulties that you really have to do something humans aren't built for: https://t.co/vhHF8jOjhj

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My Eng3 students sent some arguments into the world about mental health and HS reform. @cooperlearns, @bobby__dodd, + @cgalvinesq were quick to be responsive and engage with their ideas. It really helped empower my students' voices to know they were heard.

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Just got to read the latest @mhschronicle & found this gem in Risha's profile of Tim King: "We always try to make it harder than it is, but the study of teaching is just love and patience."

I'm thankful to work with so many who live this out and lead with their hearts.

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M.Buber on friendship,but it applies to teaching: The greatest thing any person can do for another is to confirm the deepest thing in them-to take the time+have the discernment to see what's most deeply there, most fully that person,+then confirm it by recognizing+encouraging it.

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Senior rite of passage #1 is in the books for my 17yo. Going to be a year of waterworks for me, though.