Understanding the Concept of Grief Before teachers can identify and support grieving students, they must first understand what grief is. Grief is a natural response to loss. It’s the emotional suffering one feels when something or someone the individual loves is taken away. Often, the pain of loss can feel overwhelming. For children, especially, navigating …
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“We need to trust to be vulnerable, and we need to be vulnerable in order to build trust.” Brené Brown, Dare to Lead Trust and vulnerability are two essential elements for a productive and effective learning environment. In schools, teachers, coaches, and administrators must establish trust with their students and colleagues to achieve academic success. …
This is a preview of my Friday “10 Things” newsletter. Friday editions are free for everyone. Greetings, friends. It’s the second Friday of 2023. I hope you’re off to a great year. It’s also Friday the 13th, so be careful out there and watch out for hockey masks… Here are 10 things I thought were …
What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question. — Jonas Salk When we make decisions about the technology we use in our classrooms, we very often ask the wrong questions. We think about how we can use the latest, greatest, coolest tools and gadgets available to get students in a desperate …
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With today’s ever-changing technology and the constant turnover of cables and computer components, it’s more challenging than ever for an IT team to be everywhere at once, or for an Instructional Coach to be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for minor inventory concerns. For these reasons, establishing a Student Tech Team …
I’m just going to talk about this for a minute and then move on because I’m pretty sure everyone who cares is aware of this issue by now. I’m also sure that everyone who doesn’t care about it and/or doesn’t believe it isn’t going to listen to anything I say, regardless of the data backing …
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I’m having a hard time putting into words my feelings over the past couple of days. I work in education but I’m also a parent. I worry about the kids and teachers whom I work with but I also worry about sending my daughter to school. Note: she just finished 4th grade, which has struck …
Today’s Links The Trials of Academic Publishing Teachers are Leaving, Here’s Why Colophon The Trials of Academic Publishing (Permalink) First things first: I appreciate the need for peer review and understand why we have academic journals. I’m not the person you need to convince that any work any scientist or academic publishes needs to be …
Today’s Links No Butts About It We’ll Ban All the Books, Even the Digital Ones Colophon No Butts About It In case you haven’t heard, an assistant principal was recently fired because he chose to read the children’s book “I Need a New Butt” to a group of students. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/11/toby-price-principal-fired-childrens-book/ Toby Price found out that, …
Today’s Links We need social media for schools We don’t need social media for schools Linkus Randomus Colophon We need social media for schools In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools looked for any way possible to maintain contact with students, families, and the community. Resilience, Reorientation, and Reinvention: School Leadership During the …