SO REALLY TO DISMISS QUALITATIVE RESEARCH BECAUSE IT ISN'T GENERALIZABLE DOESN'T MAKE SENSE BECAUSE THE INTENT OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IS NOT TO GENERALIZE BUT RATHER TO UNDERSTAND THE PARTICULAR CONTEXTS, NUANCES, AND LIVED EXPERIENCES OF A PHENOMENA OR GROUP OF PEOPLE YOU KNOW
Affirmative action 🧵:
Yesterday I had to look up my endocrinologist’s office info to get a referral.
I happened upon the fact that she graduated Columbia 5 years after I did. Which meant I was part of the team that admitted her, a team that regularly acted affirmatively.
We love it when alumni return to pursue graduate studies and Fisayo Latilo (BA/BEd '19) is one of those students! Get to know Fisayo and learn more about the fantastic work she's doing in this ⭐️ Shining Graduate Student ⭐️ profile:
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I reassured a parent yesterday that school staff could, indeed, learn to pronounce her daughter’s name.
I wrote it out phonetically and made teachers a video with the name pronunciation so they can hear it as many times as needed.
Names matter.
I don’t have the lungs.
So, I decided to stop trying to figure it out and use this year to discover my pace.
Here's three lessons that I learned about the benefits of establishing a PACE. You can read them on for free on my newsletter.
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Are you looking for school announcements for Black History Month? Here are some sample ones for every school day in February.
Adapt as needed for your population.
Enjoy! https://t.co/r9NNdqnq4I #OntEd#BlackHistoryMonth#BlackBrilliance
Today we read the book That's Not My Name - each student got to say their name to their classmates to ensure we are all saying them correctly. Respecting our uniqueness. We then recognized which Capital our name should go under - spelling out their name to us. #Kindergarten
Let me tell you a story. This is Susan Lung. She taught me to read and write in a single year when I was 7 years old. I've been looking for Susan, hoping to thank her in person, for almost twenty years. And then she surprised me at my reading last night.
This wasn't entirely necessary, but I drew a map connecting underlying philosophies with modern educational theories and I thought it looked cool and wanted to share it.
"I have a really close friend Arike Ogunbowale who is in the @WNBA and just the impact she has not only girls and younger women... she makes an impact everywhere."
Jordan Poole on his appreciation for @Arike_O, being able to follow her lead, and the importance of Women in Sports
Colleagues, if you have not voted yet on the Mediator's Recommendation, please do so and remind your colleagues to do the same as well. It takes but a few moments.
Voting closes June 8. You can information and how to vote here on the ATA Website.
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