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Everybody’s Designing
The ability of instructional leaders to identify high quality teaching, hold it up as exemplary, and support all teachers in making incremental progress toward being exemplary remains crucial under the social-distancing regime, but it’s more difficult than ever because everybody’s designing. State boards and their bureaucratic hordes convene in dimly-lit video conferences to conjure the …
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Three: Ending Well
(If you haven’t read part one, on establishing purpose, or part two, on facilitating well, I’d recommend starting there.) Parker does a particularly fine job of demystifying the part of a gathering that most seems like a combination of art, magic, and luck: the ending. The Sense of an Ending Before offering suggestions on how …
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Two: Teaching With Generous Authority
(If you haven’t read part one, about establishing purpose, consider starting there.) After providing solid advice on how to approach a gathering’s “why,” Parker offers guidance on designing the core of the experience and facilitating it effectively. The core of that advice: “Don’t be chill!” A ubiquitous strain of twenty-first-century culture is infecting our gatherings: …
How to Help Educators Manage Their Time
PJ Caposey’s latest book, Manage Your Time or Time Will Manage You (ACSD, 2018), more-or-less delivers on its subtitle’s bold promise: “Strategies that work from an educator who’s been there.” The book opens with a self-assessment designed to help readers determine the root cause of their own clock management challenges. Are you work avoidant, a people …
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4 Questions for Marianne del Cerriota
Marianne del Cerriota, M.D. is a senior fellow at the Kassel Institute for Bio-Economic Policy, a think-tank in San Diego. del Cerriota is a respected authority on bioeconomics issues at the frontier of medicine and technology, most notably generative medicine and semantic bio-diagnostic research. Author or editor of 14 books as well as a chapbook …
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Let Go
Can we agree that undue interest in keeping one’s feet dry is despicable?
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Paling Kings
“Most of us are allowed to go through the span of life allotted to us in actuarial tables.” from The Echo newspaper, November 1, 1869 Except the tables don’t tell the whole tale, do they? There are also qualitative burdens—especially when it comes to certain folks, say for example kings, who: …must bear all. O …
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Democratization of Language
Subtitle: Have you ever seen the phrase “piacular recompense” and the word “stuff” (the noun variety) in the same sentence? After Tuesday there will be no more President Bush press conferences. During these linguistic spectacles, the Harvard- and Yale-educated oil-tycoon scion sometimes dropped the “g’s” off his gerunds and uttered phrases such as “We’re gonna …
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Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton
In a radio interview, Tracy Kidder, who’s written quite a few good books and at least one important one, advocated for a sort of Maxwell’s demon approach to book reading. He divides books into two main categories: books in which he has interest and books in which he does not. He went on to say …
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Already There
One of the difficulties of diagnosing contemporary US culture is that we lack perspective. Here’s a helpful ichthyological fable I heard somewhere: Two young little fish are swimming around and they come across a big older fish who asks, “How’s the water, boys?” The little guys are unsure of how to respond and they swim …
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Three: Ending Well(If you haven’t read part one, on establishing purpose, or part two, on facilitating well, I’d [keep reading...]
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Two: Teaching With Generous Authority(If you haven’t read part one, about establishing purpose, consider starting there.) After [keep reading...]
Why Teachers Should Consider Their Classes “Gatherings”Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, a book that, as the subtitle suggests, takes up the subject of [keep reading...]