Once upon a classroom, I judged my work by student engagement with content. And (I thought) I was good at it. Now, I judge my work by student engagement with each other. And every day I work to get better at it. Content matters(ish). Connections matter most. Our world is overfull of information. It starves for connections. Time for the Age of Connection. Maybe more than ever. #Project180

Please read this blog post as you put together your reading lists for courses and take a pause to understand the importance of bringing in Indigenous Brilliance. carolynroberts.net/single-po…

Mathematics should be taught as a humanities--a soulful adventure framed with art and philosophy. Because that is what mathematics is--it's only education which has reduced it to a tool for only practical considerations.

Why, as Lillian Weber once put it, do most kids "begin school as an exclamation point and a question mark [but then] leave as a plain period"? My new Ed. Week commentary: "Less and Less Curious": alfiekohn.org/article/curios…

🙌 We can't boast about having an outstanding school or program if we only admit the #students who are already performing well. Their success isn't a measure of our instruction--they were going to succeed regardless of the instruction. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Educators #UDL

2/2 I'm always delighted to talk with such administrators and teachers - those who realize that euphemisms like "holding the student accountable" or imposing a "consequence" are just rationalizations for punishment. And that punishments, like rewards, only make things worse.

A light-bulb moment for me was realizing that much of the talk about student "motivation" (how to boost it or why a given kid lacks it) is really code for talking about compliance: the extent to which students do whatever they're told without question.

Agreed!

As you are thinking through what you are teaching this year, take a look at this blog post to support your in what your role is as a non-Indigenous educator. carolynroberts.net/single-po…

So excited to share my new book. There are many talks already in the books and more to come. Came join us where you can!

This is an incredibly helpful analogy. Genes are genes until gender is on the table. Then it gets real ugly.

2/2 In case you didn't notice, I slipped in two distinctions there for the price of one: 1) rigorous ≠ engaging; 2) intellectual goals - and the corresponding teaching strategies - differ markedly from those that are merely academic. (This recognition can transform schooling.)

RT @mcarolynroberts: Signing my first copies of my book to send out to excited educators!!!

A focus on increasing "rigor," "raising the bar," demanding "higher standards," etc. usually means teaching the same sorts of things in pretty much the same way, except now with fewer students being able to succeed.

Overcoming math anxiety is deflecting away from the true culprit. It should be called Overcoming math education. Math ed, start shouldering responsibility of the inevitable outcome--historical I might add--of benign curriculum, testing culture, and school exhaustion. @HumResPro

"Those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil." - Hannah Arendt

Another school which penalises students for attendance by excluding them from the end of school prom (although in this case their parents are refusing to let that be the end of the story). This means that for a proportion of young people, their final experience of school is of exclusion. Can anyone tell me what the positive effect of this is meant to be on them? It can’t be to improve their attendance or behaviour because they are leaving. They will remember this for years to come and it will negatively affect how they feel about their school experience. What’s the gain? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjqq…

Werklund academics are working with nine other post-secondaries across Alberta to help educators confront anti-Indigenous discrimination. Learn more about how they are weaving #Indigenous perspectives into teaching programs. bit.ly/45AEybc #NIPD2024

The competitive model of school. It needs to be blown up.