Todd Denick

English teacher at the Franconian International School in Erlangen, Germany.

[Todd Denick @tkdenick]

An interview I did with the LeapFrog Group (https://t.co/Q6P4bkjDOX ) talking about my fight with Sepsis and my novel, It Will Come:

https://t.co/8ZDTLBjrE7

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I am thrilled to announce the publication of my first novel, It Will Come: Alaskan Adventures Pale in Comparison to Surviving Sepsis in Europe, by LALO Publishing:
https://t.co/uBM4cTl1QI
A release date for the holiday season will be confirmed very soon!

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kNOw Sepsis - September is Sepsis Awareness Month!

"Every day, there are an average of 38 amputations in the U.S. as the result of sepsis.

-Source, Sepsis Alliance

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kNOw Sepsis - September is Sepsis Awareness Month!

"Sepsis causes at least 261,000 maternal deaths every year worldwide and is driving increases in pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S."

-Source, Sepsis Alliance

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kNOw Sepsis - September is Sepsis Awareness Month!

"More than 75,000 children develop severe sepsis each year and 6,800 of these children die, more than from pediatric cancers.

-Source, Sepsis Alliance

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kNOw Sepsis - September is Sepsis Awareness Month!

"270,000 people die from sepsis every year in the U.S. – more than from prostate cancer, breast cancer, and AIDS combined."

-Source, Sepsis Alliance

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kNOw Sepsis - September is Sepsis Awareness Month!

"More than 1.7 million people in the U.S. are diagnosed with sepsis each year – one every 20 seconds and the incidence is rising 8% every year.

-Source, Sepsis Alliance

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kNOw Sepsis - September is Sepsis Awareness Month!

"Sepsis affects more than 30 million people worldwide each year and takes 8 million lives including more than 3 million children each year."

-Source, Sepsis Alliance

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kNOw Sepsis - September is Sepsis Awareness Month!
"Approximately 6% of all hospitalizations are due to sepsis and 35% of all deaths in hospitals are due to sepsis."
-Source, Sepsis Alliance

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kNOw Sepsis - September is Sepsis Awareness Month!

"Mortality from sepsis increases by as much as 8% for every hour that treatment is delayed. As many as 80% of sepsis deaths could be prevented with rapid diagnosis and treatment."

-Source, Sepsis Alliance

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#authenticaudiences

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Another great slam poetry sharing session with students from the FIS and the Pop Culture Poet Laureate of Alaska, Michael Shaeffer! @arctickle @fis_erlangen #authenticlearning

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Storytelling 101 - the search for authentic audiences...MS Exploratory students telling stories to 2nd graders. #authenticaudiences @fis_erlangen

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And it is effective and engaging. A few of my Grade 7s are 7000 words into their first novel!

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A ten hour time difference couldn’t stop our long distance poetry workshop - Erlangen, Germany to Fairbanks, Alaska! @arctickle thanks for staying up late to entertain and offer advice. @fis_erlangen

[Lorraine Kellum @lorrainejkellum]

Building #SocialEmotional and #SpatialAwareness in #English class 🤔🖍👥 @tkdenick

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Found Poetry: one of the pleasures of sharing a classroom with other disciplines...what else should we seek? @fis_erlangen

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Storytelling Exploratory. Step one: overcoming shyness. @fis_erlangen

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Could be interesting and effective...https://t.co/8LLLMA3PAK

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The OED should include this new word from one of my 6th grade students.