π°π·-πΊπΈ #TransracialAdoptee Ally β’ Edu Leader Collaborator Lifelong Learner β’ Authentic #PBL & Ss Centered Learning β’ Husband Dad β’ Boston Sports Fan
If we want to grow human-centered schools that aim to create space and agency in lifelong learners, engaged humanitarians & empathetic people, we need to ask:
What are the essentials of school? *(and for that matter, life?)
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School curricula need to be re-thought.
Weβve been teaching the same subjects for over a century.
It is not that traditional subjects should be eliminated.
But the same subjects take up a lot of space, leaving little room for newer content.
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No one succeeds on their own.
& no one person can serve to mentor for all needs.
The idea: Make a goal to co-create a personal board of directors (PBOD).
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Love the work and words of @ShawnaCoppola on this.
Itβs not that we shouldnβt ever teach the five paragraph essay.
Itβs still perhaps βnecessaryβ,
but there are so many more generative,
equitable, authentic ways
to teach and learn the structures of writingβ¦
Created thisβ¦
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"We should be able to say, 'Hey students, slavery was a real thing. Race is this, bias is that, prejudice is this other thing, and sexual harassment looks like this. OK, now letβs move forward together.'"
@edutopia@nenagermanokt.to/GCkyRA
New Pod!
"Our lives are held in the stories we tell.
Writing down our stories & sharing them helps gain perspective.
Stories help us gain awareness &Β insight into who we are so that we can make change."
@_WhitneyPolk
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