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Humanity's Gift

A Principal's Reflections

Without them, humanity cannot survive. ” ― Dalai Lama Typically, I am a very focused writer. I was outside constantly draining my pool as the surrounding drains wouldn’t have been able to do anything with the water. On Monday morning the water was only a few feet from our house. Water levels kept rising.

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OPINION: Jump in, the water is rising — it’s time to educate students for a sustainable future

The Hechinger Report

They can test water and soil, plant trees, compost and build soil fertility. To understand what Sustainability is all about, consider the words of author and researcher John R. The post OPINION: Jump in, the water is rising — it’s time to educate students for a sustainable future appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Can You Teach Good Writing? We Ask One of the Greats

Edsurge

John McPhee, a master of telling nonfiction stories , became a teacher by accident 43 years ago when Princeton University needed a last-minute replacement. EdSurge: You’re a prolific author of books and a staff writer for The New Yorker, but you’ve continued to teach a writing course for more than 40 years. What drives you to teach?

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In the Borderlands, Connecting Writing and STEM Learning

Educator Innovator

The grants stem from a partnership between the National Writing Project and John Legend’s Show Me Campaign to help educators extend time and space for connected learning. As writers who are interested in STEM, the camp helped the students see they’re really going out into the world with a beautiful skill set,” Tellez-Trujillo said.

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7 Questions Principals Should Ask When Hiring Future-Ready Teachers

MindShift

They needed to figure out the buoyancy of ice, the displacement of water, several things about volume in order to figure out how much is left, and some physics. John Hattie’s work indicates that self-assessment can have a significant impact on the quality of learning. John Massie (@UplandEdTech) September 21, 2016. How powerful.

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Traveling to the African Diaspora to prepare black students for college

The Hechinger Report

Salt water is just not my thing.”. Named for controversial philanthropist John McDonogh—a slaveholder who left his fortune to build public schools for white and black children in New Orleans—that school, along with several others, continues to operate with the McDonogh name. Pierre-Floyd couldn’t swim, so she tiptoed into the water.

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Students Serve Up Stories Of Beloved Family Recipes In A Global Cookbook Project

MindShift

Some students shared tales of beloved dishes, the mere thought of which can make their mouths water. John Pete about his grandmother’s macaroni and cheese, eaten around a full table in Washington, D.C. “As the steam from the macaroni rose, the smell seemed as if it had fallen from heaven,” writes Mark St.