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Merianna wonders about whether professional development conferences that gear towards mandates issued by non-teaching policymakers are really professional development at all. Are teachers living into the stereotype that media and government have created? Is there a chance for teachers to regain their sense of identity?
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Annual Conference and Common Core
About 18 and change
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The question shifts from where you should go to school to how you should go to school… or does it?
A few cliff notes:
1. Be authentic
2. Acquire micro-credentials
3. Your resume should reflect what you’ve built, not what you’ve studied
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About 20 minutes and change
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Merianna wonders and wanders through the implications of the Presidential Proclamation and ends up pondering what the proper care for quail eggs is. Speaking of quail eggs, why are schools so similar to the quail egg raising process?
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Response to Presidential Proclamation
About 18 and change
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Merianna talks about the time between Spring Break and the end of the school year and how teachers who ask if there is a possibility to change something often receive the response, “That’s something for us to consider for next year.” Those teachers who ask questions often get tagged and their idea frozen until next year. Is there anyone coming to unfreeze us?
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One of the barriers people propose when I am discussing the idea of StudiesLab as a place of real education set apart from traditional public or independent school models is the notion of size and scalability.
“Not everyone wants that kind of one-on-one education though.”
“What’s the point if it will never take off in the mainstream?”
Let’s chat about that.
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About 10 minutes and change.
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Merianna talks about the Spring Testing season and who it’s impacting our students and teachers. Is anyone really listening to teachers’ barks of complaint over the standardization movement? Where is this leading education?
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How are Standardized Tests Dividing Students?
About 15 minutes and change
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Merianna interviews Deborah Carney about whether schools are supporting student writers or whether the standardization movement is stamping out student creativity.
They also discuss whether there are solutions in the current public school system to help ensure that student writers gain confidence in who they are and are able to explore many different kinds of writing.
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Deborah Carney
Project Greenlight
Nightfire Publications
A Case Against Standards
About 55 minutes and change
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Merianna Neely asks the important question…what happened to the Teachers’ Lounge?
Along with that, she takes on the notion of gaming with mobiles and devices both in the classroom and at home and whether such foolishness is good for emerging readers and kids who are developing their own literacies.
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Mediashift
Teacher Do Change
iPads are Playthings
What About Bob: Baby Steps
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When do kids begin to hate school?
How do people hate school?
Why does school get a bad rap?
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Dr Bayard
About 13 minutes and change.
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1. Be Different
- Don’t rely on what everyone else says.
- Read allusions. Make allusions from your own background
- Leave paths like foxes
2. Be Real
- You’re better than you think
- Your voice counts
3. Be Yourself
- You are not just a breathing time machine
- Humanity incorporates story and participation.
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Mountain Lions
About 20 minutes and change.
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