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  1. Jul 2024
    1. Teachers, staff, and administrators who make decisions should not be afraid to speak up about unfair treatment or practices that center around race or ethnicity.

      What do you do if you are afraid?

  2. Mar 2024
    1. Alber suggests mixing informal writing activities like quick writes, stop and jots, or one-minute essays into instruction

      This rubs me the wrong way because as a student this isn't something I could have done easily. It feel a bit like an attack although writing is fine way to process information, it is not the only way.

    2. To adapt strategies to better suit students, Lent writes that teachers must first identify the skills students need to be successful in specific content areas and focus on teaching these skills “while teaching content—not as a sidebar to the content.”

      So basically teach the type of literacy you think will be helpful for your content area.

  3. Oct 2023
    1. bilingual students show greater empathy and ability to control their emotions than monolingual students. Young DLLs also appear to have more cognitive flexibility including increased ability to focus and problem solve

      My questions is why?

    2. Because of the [legislation], many parents, educators and others have ideas about bilingualism that are not in alignment with the latest research, and they don’t know the latest information about the importance of having a foundation in a home language to reap the benefits of bilingualism,

      Like learning one language helps you learn others

  4. Sep 2023