jbackon

Lifelong learner. Fifteen years of “Range” in business, 27 teaching / changing culture at Choate, and then with OESIS and Intrepid. Currently retired.

[jbackon @jbackon]

@jcolley8 Right after college, I lived at 83rd and 1st. Got to Studio 54 once. Had the flowered polyester shirt, polyester pants, and high heel shoes.

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What could a teacher practice conducted with grace look like? How can grace support teachers dealing with a toxic school culture? @HarbordKhan ask important questions that help teachers approach students and curriculum with more empathy.
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Conversation Labs would exemplify Discussion as a Discipline: a set of skills that students can name, practice, and use in school and for life, writes Liza Garonzik @DiscussionReal. Read to discover what such labs would look like and how they would work.
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Too often, those with ADHD overfocus on what they believe someone else is thinking about them, writes @DrSharonSaline. This train of thought prevents them from being authentic due to a fear of judgment, criticism, or exclusion. Read more for five tips.
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I’ve taken the position that project-based learning is the ‘natural’ way to learn. PBL is a human design system that recreates the lifelong process of encountering challenges, grappling with problems, and sharing results, writes @thommarkham. Learn why.
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Most of us recognize flow as the optimal individual experience (Mihalyi), but @saholzapfel reminds us that the book went beyond personal flow to group flow and workflow showing that groups of people can also optimize their experiences and processes.
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What could/should we pay a teacher who gifts a student a lifelong love for reading, a curious mind, or a joy in robotics? A teacher who reveals a student’s confidence or undiscovered talent?
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If we want to live as nature, Luis Alberto Camargo tells @DrBenjaminFreud, we need to learn to ask because it’s the only way we’ll generate dialog to understand interactions and capacities.
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In a generation where one in four students says their career aspiration is to be an influencer, class discussion teaches students that yes, their individual voices matter – but so does listening and showing others they matter, writes @DiscussionReal.
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Given what we have in common and where we think we differ, how can we invent stuff that takes the best care of us, Gil Friend asks @DrBenjaminFreud. Can we have an education that supports transforming our lives while developing the ability to live well?
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At a time when public statements can be problematic for students, it is important that teachers and schools say something to students, write @HarbordKhan. Bystander syndrome is not a healthy place to be when kids are trying to understand conflict.
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We don't talk because we fear repercussions. We seek safety in groups that are like-minded. Have we abandoned critical thinking or is this a temporary hiatus while we sort out how our society is organized? Educators and liberal education are the key.
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Students should become “the architects of their own futures,” making choices that nurture their own interests, creativity, and leadership abilities, writes @ekgriffin in her review of Ana Homayoun's book, "Erasing the Finish Line."
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When we tell stories, we decide what to include and exclude, writes @DrBenjaminFreud. That discriminatory process is the ethical act of telling stories. That is why telling our stories collectively is the most powerful act of learning in our culture.
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If you could envision your best view of the future, what would it look like, asks @willrich45 in his convo with @DrBenjaminFreud. Once we start having these conversations, the work gets easier. We have to imagine the future before we can prepare for it.
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Brent Kaneft writes that we tend to bypass unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks and claim a level of enlightened transcendence that belies the reality of our fallibility.
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Language instruction, like other disciplines, spends much time on mechanics that do not help students when they face the world, writes @Haiyunlu. We need to rethink the purpose of learning a second language and build a program that meets student needs.
https://t.co/wFQYSNy3bE

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Schools are designed to block change from occurring, writes Alden Blodget. Teachers have developed strategies to derail change for good reason. The system yields no time to reflect, adjust, retool; or emulate what happens in other segments of our culture.
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The key to providing effective and caring school support for your kids with ADHD and more begins with recognizing the problem and shifting their mindset with a sustainable solution, writes @DrSharonSaline. Here are 4 strategies.
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