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Monthly Archives: October 2010
First Grade Learns What?!
Here is a sample lesson of integrating Reading and Social Studies in our Africa Unit. Ms Ebacher and her first graders are reading and discussing the rise and fall of the Ghana and Mali Empires using perspective taking skills. Some … Continue reading
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Changing with Collaboration
By: Maria Wahlstrom (instructional coordinator) Gathered around small desks in the French room, I watched our diverse, young, intelligent, and passionate staff members open their laptops and take out pens and papers for our weekly staff meeting. When you first … Continue reading
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Commands Cannot Correct
By: Miesha Ebacher (First Grade Teacher) I live my life by one simple law. I have one single belief. I allow all other parts of my identity rest in ideas that are more or less maluable. Nothing else in my … Continue reading
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A Dangerous Education of Human Ignorance
By: Aaron Kaczmarek (second grade teacher) About two weeks ago, while walking home with a friend, i saw it: the education of ignorance looked as dangerous as any threat to humanity. I was reminded that when i teach for social … Continue reading
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A True Social Justice Education
by: Maria Wahlstrom (Instructional Coordinator) When I think of teaching our children social justice, I mean that we need to teach them how to identify, strive for, and practice justice in spite of injustice. This month, we have started teaching … Continue reading
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