Caroline Durham

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

"To make our schools "suck" less, we have to be more inclusive in our approaches and allow students to exercise their influence in co-creating the changes they want to see in their schools." ~Gabriel "Asheru" Benn #ElonEd #EDU211

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

COVID-19 has revealed and exacerbated the many inequities in our education system. The question now is how we address these issues and change the system. #ElonEd #EDU211

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

Time outside in nature, not on a constructed playground, can be one of the best ways to help a child refocus and encourage their natural curiosities. #ElonEd #EDU211

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

Behavior charts- "Consider who this practice harms the most. Not the student who has a handle on self- regulation and performs well in school. It’s the students who need us the most who we are hurting."~Lee Ann Jung and Dominique Smith #ElonEd #EDU211

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

"Students must feel safe to be available for learning. They need to feel validated and nourished in order to thrive. A school's culture can also foster invaluable life skills like respect, acceptance, and handling challenges." ~Anthony Ciuffo #ElonEd #EDU211

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

Anthony Rebora’s analogy that students entering a learning environment look for themselves just like one would in a photograph is a powerful visual for why representation matters. Students want to see themselves and be seen positively. #ElonEd #EDU211

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

"Safety is an essential prerequisite before any learning can take place. Students need to feel safe before they can focus on reading, math, science, or anything else they study in school.” ~ Michael Sadowski #ElonEd #EDU211

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

~@joelwestheimer #ElonEd #EDU211

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

"I think about schools not only as vehicles for the transmission of knowledge, but also as places where children learn about the society in which they are growing up, how they might engage in society productively, and how they can fight for change when change is warranted."

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

Eric Toshalis's powerful article reminds teachers that students' behavior (and misbehavior) is a form of communication, and that sometimes this misbehavior is a reaction to the environment the teachers create. #EDU211 #ElonEd

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

"Every English language learner comes to us with many life experiences. Our job is to tap those experiences and link them to the new information we're teaching. They may not know English, but that doesn't indicate how much they know about everything else." #EDU211 #ElonEd

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

"We all harbor unwanted, unconscious bias; we all need systems to help us monitor our behavior and keep us on track." ~ @SarahFiarman #ElonEd #EDU211

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

As Rick Wormeli says, "ground zero for an equitable, nonracist society is the K–12 classroom." So educators, let's be ready to have those hard conversations and evaluate ourselves and our materials for bias. #ElonEd #Edu211

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

The fact that our schools are more segregated now than they were in the 1950s is terrifying. What’s even scarier is that almost nobody is talking about it. Learn more here https://t.co/jqf8w4QSUj

#ElonEd #Edu211

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

"If we do not find ways to reduce the growing inequality in education outcomes—between the rich and the poor—schools will no longer be the great equalizer we want them to be." - Sean F. Reardon #ElonEd #EDU211

[Caroline Durham @cdurham_5]

"Our schooling is dedicated to the cramming of facts, formulas, and academic language into short-term memory. Rather than cultivating knowledge, skills, and dispositions that matter, it turns school into four dismal years of jumping through hoops.” ~@stevewolk_ #ElonEd #EDU211