Teacher, Instructional Coach, 2019 Teach with Africa Fellow, HGSE Education Policy and Management 2016, Fulbright DAT 2013-2014, mover and shaker.
Joined July 2012
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Crystal Polski retweeted
23 Jul 2020
Watch Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the House floor condemn Rep. Ted Yoho for accosting her on Monday, calling it emblematic of a culture that demeans women and girls nyti.ms/2CyHlZH
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Crystal Polski retweeted
9 Jun 2020
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
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Crystal Polski retweeted
9 Jun 2020
We gotta build our stamina. This is just the warm up for the long haul. Better get some Larabars, y’all.
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Crystal Polski retweeted
24 Dec 2019
"I don't teach about [privilege] as a reason to feel guilty about one's identity. I want my students to see it as a tool that can be used to elevate others."
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3 Nov 2019
“The first red flag is when a teacher makes culturally responsive teaching all about relationships but leaves instruction unchanged.”
2 Nov 2019
Coaching is critical to becoming a culturally responsive educator. That means building coach capacity around using cultural practices to facilitate deep learning.
Zaretta Hammond on Coaching and Culturally Responsive Teaching - Educational Leadership ascd.org/publications/educat…
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Crystal Polski retweeted
21 Oct 2019
Deep learning: what is it? And how can we help students achieve it? improvingteaching.co.uk/2019…
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Crystal Polski retweeted
5 May 2019
A great visual to think more about how @Ready4rigor defines culturally responsive teaching, and how to go beyond surface and shallow culture to get at the deep stuff. Thanks to @carlota_holder for the beautiful #sketchnote #edchat #culturallyrelevant
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Crystal Polski retweeted
2 May 2019
Working on finding who is in charge of social studies education in some of the largest districts in the Western States. The reality? Oftentimes, no one is there! #STEM needs ethics and citizenship. #sschat #engsschat #edreform #democracy
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Crystal Polski retweeted
28 Mar 2019
Latest in our series on whole-class feedback: for whole-class feedback to be effective, it has to be a 'recipe for future action', not a statement. It can't just be a whole-class written comment - these are just as unhelpful as individual written comments! blog.nomoremarking.com/whole…
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Crystal Polski retweeted
7 Feb 2019
Don't waste students' time guessing at word meanings. Start with a great definition & then spend your time applying words- playfully if possible!
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Crystal Polski retweeted
2 Feb 2019
Good questioning may be the most basic tenet of lifelong learning and independent thinking that school offers students @Kschwart @RightQuestion owl.li/ZN1Z30nxaio #edchat #curiosity #inquiryed #motivation
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Crystal Polski retweeted
16 Jan 2019
When Ss make choices, you have a choice to make, too, says educator @justintarte.
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Crystal Polski retweeted
6 Jan 2019
Some teachers worry that #traumainformed practices will mean more work for already overburdened teachers, but others respond that using a trauma-informed approach makes the rest of their job easier owl.li/Ct6f30ncjm7 #edchat #wholechild #teachchat #cpchat
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5 Jan 2019
"The message for me, loud and clear, was that no matter how much experience I have, teaching is still challenging, and every group of students, every period, deserves thoughtful planning." #lifelonglearner #rigorrelevance #leesonplanningmatters #deeperlearningforall
4 Jan 2019
Who else has fallen into this teaching trap? "I’m worried students won’t be able to do X, so I assume they can’t." @arielsacks discusses how being wrong has improved her practice. @EdWeekTeacher edweek.org/tm/articles/2018/… #teachchat #edchat
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Crystal Polski retweeted
30 Dec 2018
If it was true that facts are unimportant & you can 'just google' anything, then people would have googled the science & know that knowledge encoded in long term memory is the basis of critical thinking. In other words they would have just googled the fact that they were wrong.
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Crystal Polski retweeted
24 Dec 2018
When I started researching my book #TheKnowledgeGap, a veteran educator told me: “When the teacher is talking, the students aren’t learning.” Really threw me for a loop!
23 Dec 2018
Every time someone pops up to tell us that no one ever believed crazy crap like "you shouldn't talk for more than 8 minutes" the internet doth deliver.
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Crystal Polski retweeted
20 Dec 2018
My latest column in @tes on true but useless feedback. It doesn't help to give pupils mark scheme phrases like 'be more systematic' or 'make more insightful inferences'. As @dylanwiliam has said, it's like telling an unsuccessful comedian to 'be funnier'. tes.com/news/how-much-your-f…
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25 Nov 2018
Waited months for this books and it did not disappoint. “By assuming responsibility for making knowledge rather than serving as receptacles of others’ conclusions, students took charge of… instagram.com/p/Bqm4Q57gdTZ/…
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Crystal Polski retweeted
19 Nov 2018
Giving students some choice in how and what they learn builds #engagement and helps differentiate instruction @tweenteacher bit.ly/2RZ8SVX #edchat #stuvoice #stuchoice #teachchat
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