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Two Islands
Teaching is often categorized as a lonely profession. “Teachers teach on an island,” they say. But that’s not the only island that educators face. Schools can…
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Resistance
One of my favorite writers is a guy by the name of Steven Pressfield. He wrote a book titled, The War of Art. In it, he discusses the idea…
Two Years In
Two years ago, we didn't know what our blog would become. All we knew was that we enjoyed thinking about and discussing issues and ideas regarding education. We also enjoyed…
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Classroom Approach
We can approach our classrooms by saying, "I'm going to teach you this." Or We can approach our classrooms by saying, "I'm going to try to get you to…
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Writing Isn’t Hard
I reject the notion that writing is hard. It’s not hard. It takes time. Lots of time. These are two different things. In an earlier post…
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Serve the Person
If the goal of art education is to reproduce an image that doesn’t interest the maker or to create a work in a specific genre that doesn’t…
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Making Stuff
Making Stuff Trevor (@trevorabryan) #4OCF Exceptional Educators Roaming the Edges to Expand Possibility
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Scaffolds + Support = Success
What number is this: CLIV What number is this: 154 If we are putting texts (any form) in front of our students that they can’t understand, how can…
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Creative Generation
To Create a Creative Generation We need to Create a Generation that Generates Ideas I recently listened to Malcolm Gladwell interview Adam Grant. You can watch their conversation…