Category: Educational Philosophy

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The Gooniest Idea

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The Power Of Confession

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Adventure Playground

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First Day Of School: Scared Is Scared

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Creating Space For Questions

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Why Every School, Class, And Learning Space Needs A Couch [Talk]

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Why You Can’t Learn [Blank] From A Book

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Surgery as Public Spectacle: How To Get Over Your Fear Of Being Examined [Online]

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Why Do We Give Students Summer Assignments? Seriously, WHY?

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Things That Suck: Twitter Chats (Let’s fix them)

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The Oldest Game in Education: “Hey that kid isn’t listening!”

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Re:Framed Re:Mixed: Solutions to Student Blogging Issues

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How a famous Ronin can elevate your teaching with one important technique

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MST3K: Learning from Bad Teacher Theatre

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The Golden Ticket: How to raise student achievement with three simple words

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Hey Principals: Want to be great? Answer this question correctly.

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The Worst Goodbye: Why every moment counts in school

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The One Thing You’ll Never Know, But You Need To Know

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The Dark Side of the Course: What Star Wars can teach us about student engagement

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The EDU Scarlet Letter: When SHOULD you label a student with an F?

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The Yin to Twitter’s Yang: The PLN all teachers need

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EdCampLA: a Hip-Hop reflection 2013

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Conversation in the Hallway: Why students don’t read and what we should do about it

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CRY HAVOC AND LET SLIP THE FOG OF LORE: SparkNotes butchers William the Poet

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Let’s BRAWL: Throwing Socratic Seminars out of the ring

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Don’t Follow the Yellow Brick Road: In praise of the off-task teacher

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Create a lasting impression: #myseniorfootprint

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The 150 point project: an annual experiment in academic freedom

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Book reports: perhaps the biggest waste of time