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David Cutler
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26 Jan 2023
My new @Edutopia story: "If we do nothing but lament how AI spells doom for education, we lose a sacred chance to help guide students into a brave new world." edutopia.org/article/chatgpt… @NAISnetwork @AISNE1 @NSPA @QuillandScroll #edchat @OnPointRadio @KlingensteinCtr #edchat

Grappling With AI Writing Technologies in the Classroom

ChatGPT and other AI tools complicate how teachers think about student writing and how they teach academic integrity.

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Excited to share two new educator stories to kick off the new year!
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Lead With a Compass, Not a Map

People were huddled around the sink, others packed like sardines into the two stalls of the men’s bathroom. A thunderous sound erupted outside the restaurant and torrential rain began to...

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A Place At The Table

In the spring of 2021, as I was grading quizzes in my fourth-grade classroom, my phone vibrated with an alert. It was an email from my head of school, Stanley...

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Seeing Others and Being Seen at School - mailchi.mp/004b9d691454/seei…
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"I know that whenever I enter my school, I not only need to look out for our Black students, but I must also always be aware that they, too, are looking at me," writes Mo Hill @ well-schooled.com/2022/10/to… #edstorytelling

To Be Seen

Two minutes was all I had.  Ding, dong, ding, dong. School chairs scratched the square linoleum floor tiles. Thirty pre-teens in red, white, and black plaid uniforms scuttled to the...

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Nathan Taylor considers ways to cultivate humility @ well-schooled.com/2022/09/a-… @edstorytelling

A Humble Approach to the Middle School Mind

White men — like me — often reach disturbingly high levels of arrogance in their fourteenth year of life. Let's support that claim with evidence from my own experience. Seven...

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Ann V. Klotz on safety then, safety now, safety first @ well-schooled.com/2022/09/sa… #edstorytelling

Safety First

This summer, I have thought a lot about safety at school. The safety and well-being of every child and of every faculty and staff member in our care is of...

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Bianca Nunes writes about the criticality of social-emotional awareness @ well-schooled.com/2022/08/un… #edstorytelling

Unmasking Our Emotions

“Please keep your masks on at all times,” the PA on the subway reminded me every morning on my way to work. Sitting on the cranky, orange seats of the...

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Stephanie Felder Braun shares four memories from school that help us to keep students at the center @ well-schooled.com/2022/08/fo… #edstorytelling

Four School Memories That Help Me to Lead

As experienced educators, we often forget the trials and tribulations of childhood, even as we help students navigate them every day. It’s important that we remind ourselves of our past...

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Care for self is foundational to learning success - check out Megan McCall's "Transfer of Care" @ well-schooled.com/2022/08/tr… #edstorytelling

Transfer of Care

“I just don’t understand why she doesn’t do her work. She is clearly capable of doing it based on her participation in class. I don’t know how to get her...

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Kelly Dalke is hopeful as we approach a new school year @ well-schooled.com/2022/08/ho… #edstorytelling

Hope in the New Age

My first time teaching back in person after the lockdown was in a first-year writing classroom at a community college in August 2021. I asked for a show of hands...

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"It is natural to wonder what our students lost in the past two years and to dwell on the missed or altered milestones. But, we can’t go back," writes Laura Reardon @ well-schooled.com/2022/08/fi… #edstorytelling

Finding Time in Joy

“Mama, are you working?  Can you read to me?” my four year old bounds over with a princess book in hand as I sit with my laptop perched precariously on my...

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Geometry, quilting, and caring for kids @ well-schooled.com/2022/07/ho… #edstorytelling

How to Make a Geometric Quilt

Find a student who has flunked geometry three times and who insists, I know the stuff, I just don’t do good in big classes. Believe it. Ask her if she’d like...

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The Impact of Community by Zaineb Hussain @ well-schooled.com/2022/07/th… #edstorytelling

The Impact of Community

I was born in Calcutta, India. With very few memories of my own, my time there is all captured through photographs my mother has saved and placed all over our...

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"Empowering Students to Create Change" by Eric Taylor @ well-schooled.com/2022/07/em… #edstorytelling
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"Find the True Spirit of Awards Season" by Michael Calderone @ well-schooled.com/2022/07/fi… #edstorytelling #teacherswriting

Find the True Spirit of Awards Season

How many competitions and awards ceremonies did your school participate in last spring? At my school, we had the Athletics Spring Season Recap video assembly, Cum Laude Society Dinner, Science...

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"Embracing All That I Am in Education" by Najee Warner @ well-schooled.com/2022/07/em…

Embracing All That I Am in Education

To look at my identity and its role in my development as an educator, I can’t help but think about where my story started. My mother’s family immigrated to the...

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"Learn to learn," writes Santiago Morgan @ well-schooled.com/2022/07/my… #edstorytelling

My Lifelong Lesson: Learning to Learn 

One day in the fifth grade, I asked my science teacher a question. The answer he gave me was one of the best answers I have ever heard. It has...

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