Being a reflective teacher means collecting evidence about teaching and learning, thinking critically about that evidence, and drawing conclusions about teaching and learning.

eflective teaching is examining one’s beliefs about teaching and learning and determining the alignment of those beliefs with what happens within your courses (Reflective Teaching, 2021). The goal is to think critically about one’s teaching to find evidence of effective teaching as well as identifying potential areas for improvement (Palmer, 2017)

habit of continuous quality improvem

Piaget is credited with developing the constructivist model of learning, but it is John Dewey who developed the focus on constructivism as a learning theory and the role of reflection in learning (Von Glaserfeld, 1982; Kolb, 1993).  In 1993, Kolb brought reflection to the forefront in his description of its role in experiential learning (Kolb, 1993).  Dewey and Kolb suggest that reflection is critical for learning to occur; however, it is not just students who benefit from reflection, those who teach can also benefit from reflecting about their teaching (Brookfield, 1998).

Appreciative

Maybe you don’t text at all because it feels too much like waiting for prayers to arrive, which is work

Accidental Prayer

I understand you, heavenly father, with your feet up on the universe and a bottle of entropy or unfiltered time

This life is little more than castaway stones but I can carry stones. Where should we put them, what should we build?

For those I love I will bake strawberry rhubarb pies, muddle basil in gin and lime, cook pot roast and gumbo and stay up after dark cleaning the kitchen so tomorrow begins pristine.

So so long

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Here I share a couple of stories based on my own experiences—as a school leader and from my childhood

Just as it’s important for students to see adults who look and sound like them, they also need to see themselves in the books they read, the math problems they solve, and the songs they sing.

it’s a way of building meaning

All too often, oppositionality creates either/or systems of thinking that limit our options to two extremes: Either I’m right and I win; or you’re right and you win. This binary structure flattens out commonalities, reducing them to sameness: our views are either entirely the same or they’re entirely different. And, if our views are not the same (even if they’re only slightly different), then one of us must be Right and the other Wrong. There’s no room for contradiction, for overlapping perspectives and friendly disagreements, for building new truths, or for whatever other complex approaches we might invent. Instead, we remain locked into our existing opinions, to which we cling with fierce determination. In so doing, we generally reinforce the status quo.

If only one person annotates a document, is that an act of social reading? Yes, because that reader is in conversation with the author of a text — and leaving notes for anyone who comes along and might add to the conversation, building on those first annotations.

Utilize educational technologies that promote active learning, including annotation, collaboration, data and text analysis, and visualization tools.

For all their disparate circumstances, Mandel’s characters can evoke variations on a single person: wistful and dreamy, with a competent, vigorous exterior; invested in values such as beauty and goodness; and working to surmount their flaws. The over-all impression is of an author less interested in individuals than in manifesting a minor-key mood coupled with a hopeful, humanist vision.

The story belongs to a long line of "set the record straight" narratives, in which a minor character from one story becomes the narrator of her own story, often providing a counter-narrative to the one from the original.

you must

on having the reader discover as the narrator discovers.

I’m rooting for him.

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decentering of authority i think is is crucial to uh getting our students um to start to read

i ask the students to tag their strategies that they're using as they're putting them into the margins you know tag when you're asking a question tag when you're synthesizing

Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl

He lifts his newspaper back up between the two of them like he is closing a door.

a big virtual orgy of never-ending literary communion.

begging him to mark up their books

people would mark up books for one another as gifts

That chunk, however, contained a statement that changed my reading life forever

Rolling Around in the Text’

Openness

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other literacies

Birth myths . . . are ahistorical. They tie in with a phallogocentrism of the concept of creation as a single act by a single person (generally a man . . . ) rather than a whole set of pre-existing

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perhaps akin to that of the discipline of art history in the postwar years.

the aims of this book are fivefold

Firstly, it is (perhaps wilfully) ignorant of the long history

In addition, four school principles complemented and guided the planning of the unit of study:1.Physical and Emotional Safety2.Respectful Collaborative Culture for Students and Staff3.Rigorous Aligned High-Quality Instruction4.High Expectations and Success for All