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Wielding Peer Pressure to Build a More Wholesome Community

18 May 2023 | Filed under: Teaching

Spoken to an educator recently? Opened a newspaper? Then, no doubt you’ve heard about the startling increase in remarkably cruel, insensitive & flat-out rude behavior kids are showing on a regular basis. Group-think is short-circuiting basic decency with alarming regularity. At my middle school in recent months, as in schools …

What I’m Reading: “So You Want to Talk About Race” chapter 1

4 August 2020 | Filed under: Equity, What I'm Reading

Last week, I wrote that I’d started reading So You Want to Talk About Race? by Ijeoma Oluo, and how eager I was to continue reading. The intervening week may not have boded well for that project, but in fact I had quickly moved onto chapter 1. There was so …

Silent Rulebook – Recalling social norms

22 August 2019 | Filed under: Teaching

When a student gets sent to my office for some misbehavior in class, I take the opportunity to have them talk to me about what went wrong. In a roundabout way, having them tell me this can reinforce community norms by bringing to the surface what they already know about …

Country Fair – Tips for parents

15 March 2015 | Filed under: Teaching

Our grade 6 Country Fair project is getting underway in the next few weeks. Country Fair Night is a great annual event at the school—think “Science Fair” for Social Studies—for parents & other involved adults to come see the kids, and alumni often return to sample the food! For Country …

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