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- “Changing Education Paradigms:” A Thought Worth Considering
- Inescapably White
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- A Teacher Makes All Things Possible
- Never Too Young to Make an Impact
- Create Opportunities for Creativity
- A Challenge for Teachers Who Are Stuck in the Business of Education
- Urban Education At Its Best (A Video on VLA)
- Alexander the “Who?”
- Parental Involvement in Transforming Education
- Listen to What Children Have to Say About Peace…
- An Impressive Field Trip: 4th graders Touring the Tour Guide at the Art Institute of Chicago
- First Grade Service Learning Project: Developing our Understanding
- Kids Driven to Change: The Importance of Pairing Academics with Service Learning
- Some Schools Need to Change
- We Don’t Just Have Jobs, We Have Commitments
- Valuable Lessons About Cultural Diversity
- Puzzle Me a New
- Empower the Children
- Standardized Thinking in an Innovative World?
- Simple Practice, Simple Justice
- Project Darfur (A Children’s Movement)
- Teaching for Social Justice: the Challenge of Selecting Teachers
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- First Grade Learns What?!
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Category Archives: Ms Ebacher
Inescapably White
By: Miesha Ebacher (first grade teacher) Yesterday I was reading about the universe in Bill Bryson’s book “a short history of nearly everything”. He was describing the space of space and the hugeness of the cosmos that we just barley … Continue reading
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Never Too Young to Make an Impact
Maria Wahlstrom (Instructional Coordinator) and Miesha Ebacaher (First Grade Teacher) Project Darfur, led by Miesha Ebacher and her first grade class, has led me to question popular assumptions about youth: Are “growing up” and “gaining experience” the only prerequisites for … Continue reading
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Listen to What Children Have to Say About Peace…
By: Miesha Ebacher (first grade teacher) The first grade class will be teaching high school students next week. Youth Connections Leadership Academy High School has invited our students to host a teach-in about the genocide that is currently happening in … Continue reading
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First Grade Service Learning Project: Developing our Understanding
By: Miesha Ebacher (first grade teacher) For Project Darfur, we review the Sudanese timeline, and I ask them questions to try and see who has retained some of the information we have discussed in the last month and who has … Continue reading
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Puzzle Me a New
By: Miesha Ebacher (first grade teacher) I feel very blessed and honored to be a part of this movement at VLA…we can call it that right? The conversations we have as a staff (although heated with passion, fueled with confusion … Continue reading
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Project Darfur (A Children’s Movement)
By: Miesha Ebacher (first grade teacher) It is easy to convince yourself that you are powerless to the problems of this world. Looking outside of my classroom windows, I can easily imagine the nameless acts of violence, ignorance and destruction … Continue reading
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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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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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