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Download a free ebook of 22 pages (or get the full ebook of 162 pages) </div><div><br></div><div>22 pages. <a href="http://www.TINYURL.com/SelectYourName22">www.TINYURL.com/SelectYourName22</a></div><div><br></div><div>Full ebook <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/selectyourname">www.tinyurl.com/selectyourname</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></div></div></div></div></div> Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-67235842152684185682022-06-28T10:07:00.004-07:002022-06-28T11:05:17.158-07:00Let's look at history by asking, "What were the experiences of groups during this period in our country's history and how were these experiences similar or different to each other? What could explain these similarities or differences?"<p> Look at this paragraph</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;">Critical Race Theory (CRT) makes race the prism through which its proponents analyze all aspects of American life—and do so with a degree of persistence that has helped CRT impact all of American life. CRT underpins identity politics, an ongoing effort to reimagine the United States as a nation riven by groups, each with specific claims on victimization. In entertainment, as well as the education and workforce sectors of society, CRT is well-established, driving decision-making according to skin color—not individual value and talent. As Critical Theory ideas become more familiar to the viewing public in everyday life, CRT’s intolerance becomes “normalized,” along with the idea of systemic racism for Americans, weakening public and private bonds that create trust and allow for civic engagement.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Let's look at some of these sentences</span></p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #061d46;">Critical Race Theory (CRT) makes race the prism through which its proponents analyze</span><span style="color: red;"> all aspects of American life</span><span style="color: #061d46;">—and do so with a degree of persistence that has helped CRT impact all of American life</span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Let's start with household wealth and household income.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Let's look at 1000 college graduates. Find out what their ancestors held in 1900 (great grandparents) and compare each graduate's current wealth. What do you suppose you will find?</span></p><div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Are there differences between household income and what property was held </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Find out the amount of wealthy held by the parents of the graduates at the birth of each graduate</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Find out the amount of wealthy held by the ancestors of today's population (in 1900)?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Find out how large a mortgage the parents and ancestors of today's graduates obtained.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Compare those results by race. You might get results found by <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/07/02/why-are-states-banning-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank">the Brookings Institution</a>.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span></span></p><!--more--><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;">an ongoing effort to reimagine the United States as a nation riven by groups, each with specific claims on victimization."</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Yes...that's what happens to my students. I teach at "an urban school" where 95% of the students qualify for free lunch. They have stories about <b>the divisions in their neighborhoods</b>. "There is a difference between home values and that difference is not a result of interior choices. The Brookings Institute's report compares median wealth of whites to median wealth of blacks...surprise: the median amount for whites is around $180,000 and Black homeowners.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #101010; font-family: "PT Serif", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #101010; font-family: "PT Serif", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2DxB9EMhlpt31F2KiCPNVxeVs76PKt18cajMyH2EagTw6-535i4rgqc9aPd_HJQ3DL_LpEN7HXijf47ty73ipW5Ho7r7NmMSZuHF_YCGEwGdNA6joxWxQ1dpK9M5PySU1Wn0LD9bYERaZuxPzk3veSF0XoGD7exEQK9WSrtUM8TfhKmtnt2J1L45meA/s1308/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-28%20at%201.18.45%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="1308" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2DxB9EMhlpt31F2KiCPNVxeVs76PKt18cajMyH2EagTw6-535i4rgqc9aPd_HJQ3DL_LpEN7HXijf47ty73ipW5Ho7r7NmMSZuHF_YCGEwGdNA6joxWxQ1dpK9M5PySU1Wn0LD9bYERaZuxPzk3veSF0XoGD7exEQK9WSrtUM8TfhKmtnt2J1L45meA/w613-h314/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-28%20at%201.18.45%20PM.png" width="613" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWtOR-WsBG9cy6oi4Bxm47YibUXcn9PdzIYBy4SocAxw2uOyaNBpwbP05ZRHHGCsUgsm5u-IqcbKi08Gfg98V6wXS-xsyfvn4tQ413XGRO2NHnq1LlXh2FxQY4ncXT9QOHF7VPY19oxZ5yTEL5yVrMIzxJmAOFGBe2kB1WwhJvrbaDtH04ZhoNZk0Nw/s1304/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-28%20at%201.19.14%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="1304" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWtOR-WsBG9cy6oi4Bxm47YibUXcn9PdzIYBy4SocAxw2uOyaNBpwbP05ZRHHGCsUgsm5u-IqcbKi08Gfg98V6wXS-xsyfvn4tQ413XGRO2NHnq1LlXh2FxQY4ncXT9QOHF7VPY19oxZ5yTEL5yVrMIzxJmAOFGBe2kB1WwhJvrbaDtH04ZhoNZk0Nw/w588-h287/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-28%20at%201.19.14%20PM.png" width="588" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #101010; font-family: "PT Serif", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #101010; font-family: "PT Serif", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;">White adults tend to be older (median age of 55) than African Americans (49 years old), and older people tend to have more wealth, but figure 2 shows that the wealth gap remains when looking within age groups. The typical young adult (18–34 years old) of either race has little wealth, but the gap rises quickly with age, and for 65–74-year-olds accumulates to $302,500 in median white wealth and $46,890 in median Black wealth. <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining-the-black-white-wealth-gap/" target="_blank">BROOKINGS</a></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining-the-black-white-wealth-gap/">https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining-the-black-white-wealth-gap/</a></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b>So, how did this gap happen?sdvxc </b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b>Individual bank managers (not all managers are racists)</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b>or</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b>Was there a system that excluded a group of potential homeowners?</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red;">IF you chose B, </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">then you used Critical Race Theory to observe your findings.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><b>GROUPS that were victims: </b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;">a) Claifonria: There was a group of 120,000 residents of California who were taken from their homes and placed in isolated places. That soulds like a group that had claims to being victims. And 40 yearss later the US government paid each of the sruvivers $20,000 and apologixed for the government's action. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;">b) Rosewood: Did you hear about the payment of $15,000 to each of the survivors of the 1923 event that destroyed the town of Rosewood, Fla.? More than 10 people died, a fellow was nearly lynched and the 13 survivors got an apology. Scholarships were established and the FLorida state government made thse payments to "repari" part of the wrong that was done. Can we call the $2.4 millon "reparations"?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;">Time magazine article</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;">Wikipedia link</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;">Rosewood:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;">Florida's consideration of a bill to compensate victims of racial violence was the first by any U.S. state. Opponents argued that the bill set a dangerous precedent and put the onus of paying survivors and descendants on Floridians who had nothing to do with the incident in Rosewood. James Peters, who represented the State of Florida, argued that the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_limitation" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Statute of limitation">statute of limitations</a> applied because the law enforcement officials named in the lawsuit—Sheriff Walker and Governor Hardee—had died many years before. He also called into question the shortcomings of the report: although the historians were instructed not to write it with compensation in mind, they offered conclusions about the actions of Sheriff Walker and Governor Hardee. The report was based on investigations led by historians as opposed to legal experts; they relied in cases on information that was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hearsay">hearsay</a> from witnesses who had since died. Critics thought that some of the report's writers asked <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_question" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Leading question">leading questions</a> in their interviews.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Even legislators who agreed with the sentiment of the bill asserted that the events in Rosewood were typical of the era. </span></b><span style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">One survivor interviewed by Gary Moore said that to single out Rosewood as an exception, as if the entire world was not a Rosewood, would be "vile".</span><span style="color: #202122; font-size: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">Florida Representatives Al Lawson and Miguel De Grandy argued that, unlike Native Americans or slaves who had suffered atrocities at the hands of whites, the residents of Rosewood were tax-paying, self-sufficient citizens who deserved the protection of local and state law enforcement. While mob lynchings of black people around the same time tended to be spontaneous and quickly concluded, the incident at Rosewood was prolonged over a period of several days.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-video1_52-4" style="color: #202122; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre#cite_note-video1-52" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[46]</a></sup><span style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> Some legislators began to receive hate mail, including some claiming to be from Ku Klux Klan members. One legislator remarked that his office received an unprecedented response to the bill, with a proportion of ten constituents to one opposing it.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In 1994, the state legislature held a hearing to discuss the merits of the bill. Lee Ruth Davis died a few months before testimony began, but Minnie Lee Langley, Arnett Goins, Wilson Hall, Willie Evans, and several descendants from Rosewood testified. Other witnesses were a clinical psychologist from the University of Florida, who testified that survivors had suffered post-traumatic stress, and experts who offered testimony about the scale of property damages.</span><span style="font-size: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">Langley spoke first; the hearing room was packed with journalists and onlookers who were reportedly mesmerized by her statement.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Ernest Parham also testified about what he saw. When asked specifically when he was contacted by law enforcement regarding the death of Sam Carter, Parham replied that he had been contacted for the first time on Carter's death two weeks before testifying. The coroner's inquest for Sam Carter had taken place the day after he was shot in January 1923; he concluded that Carter had been killed "by Unknown Party".</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;">After hearing all the evidence, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Master" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Special Master">Special Master</a> Richard Hixson, who presided over the testimony for the Florida Legislature, declared that the state had a "moral obligation" to make restitution to the former residents of Rosewood. He said, "I truly don't think they cared about compensation. I think they simply wanted the truth to be known about what happened to them ... whether they got fifty cents or a hundred and fifty million dollars. It didn't matter."</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">Black and Hispanic legislators in Florida took on the Rosewood compensation bill as a cause, and refused to support Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawton_Chiles" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lawton Chiles">Lawton Chiles</a>' healthcare plan until he put pressure on House Democrats to vote for the bill. Chiles was offended, as he had supported the compensation bill from its early days, and the legislative caucuses had previously promised their support for his healthcare plan.</span><span style="color: #202122; font-size: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The legislature passed the bill, and Governor Chiles signed the Rosewood Compensation Bill, a $2.1 million package to compensate survivors and their descendants. Seven survivors and their family members were present at the signing to hear Chiles say,</span></b></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-left: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 32px;"><p style="margin: 0px;">Because of the strength and commitment of these survivors and their families, the long silence has finally been broken and the shadow has been lifted ... Instead of being forgotten, because of their testimony, the Rosewood story is known across our state and across our nation. This legislation assures that the tragedy of Rosewood will never be forgotten by the generations to come.</p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">Originally, the compensation total offered to survivors was $7 million, which aroused controversy. </span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">The legislature eventually settled on $1.5 million: this would enable payment of $150,000 to each person who could prove he or she lived in Rosewood during 1923,</span></b><span style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> and provide a $500,000 pool for people who could apply for the funds after demonstrating that they had an ancestor who owned property in Rosewood during the same time.</span></p><p><span></span></p><!--more--><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #061d46; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;">According to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exposing-the-lefts-dishonesty-about-critical-race-theory-criticism?utm_term=&utm_campaign=dw_conversions_subscriptions_performancemax_na&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=6411461344&hsa_cam=16590646933&hsa_grp=&hsa_ad=&hsa_src=x&hsa_tgt=&hsa_kw=&hsa_mt=&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=CjwKCAjwh-CVBhB8EiwAjFEPGVwdQe2HWSGKVo2Pa2lk4imc4dhpbxdIoLZ6RRW7a6ASwheCVA-eDhoCHxkQAvD_BwE" target="_blank">the Daily Wire</a></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d;">There is nothing wrong with looking critically at American history with regard to racial inequality. It would be dishonest to study America without learning about the brutality and evil of the Jim Crow era, slavery, treatment of Native Americans, and more, just as it would be wrong to learn about U.S. history without praising the civil rights movement and all of the good that has come from it. But “addressing racial inequality” is a broad goal and </span><b><span style="color: red;">has no definitive outcome.</span></b></span></span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;"> In Rosewood, $150,000 per survivor appears to be an outcome. </span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Some CRT critics point out that a person is not a racist just because of the color of his skin. CRT points out that it is a system, not individuals, that leads to unfair treatment of the victims.</span></span><div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Lyon, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Lyon, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">Critics charge that the theory leads to negative dynamics, such as a focus on group identity over universal, shared traits; divides people into “oppressed” and “oppressor” groups; and urges intolerance.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Comment: Yes, a division of "oppressed" and "oppressor" is how the survivors of Rosewood were able to get an apology and some compensation.</span></span></div><div><br /></div>Critical Race Theorists reject the idea that people should be judged based on their character, insisting they be judged instead only on their identities, rejecting the Civil Rights-era notion of colorblindness. They developed the notion of “intersectionality,” where you can identify with more than one group to claim additional social benefits. Further,<span style="color: red;"><b> theorists say that the U.S. Constitution and system of laws cannot be neutral, giving rise to the idea of “systemic racism.”</b></span><div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #666666; font-family: "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal;"><a href=" https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/criticalracetheory/. " target="_blank"><br /></a></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-family: Noto Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: #666666;"><a href=" https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/criticalracetheory/. " target="_blank">https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/criticalracetheory/. </a></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-family: courier;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-family: courier;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: #666666;">Comment: Yes, </span><b><span style="color: #666666;">the US Constitution </span><span style="color: red;">was</span><span style="color: #666666;"> not neutral</span></b><span style="color: #666666;"> in how it has been applied before 1900 (Plessy v. Ferguson, Dred Scott, etc.). It was set up to support slavery. So the idea of a system being racist appears to make sense.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-family: Noto Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why-is-it-under-attack/2021/05" target="_blank">LINK</a> for edweek</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Lyon, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">A good example is when, in the 1930s, government officials literally drew lines around areas deemed poor financial risks, often explicitly due to the racial composition of inhabitants.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lyon, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><span style="color: red;"> Banks subsequently refused to offer mortgages to Black people in those areas.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Lyon, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">Comment: The banking system appears to have caused victims.</span></span></div><div><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: courier;">We began this post with this paragraph:</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b"; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Critical Race Theory (CRT) makes race the prism through which its proponents analyze all aspects of American life—and do so with a degree of persistence that has helped CRT impact all of American life</span><span style="color: #061d46;">. CRT underpins identity politics, </span><b><span style="color: red;">an ongoing effort to reimagine the United States as a nation riven by groups, each with specific claims on victimization.</span></b><span style="color: #061d46;"> In entertainment, as well as the education and workforce sectors of society, CRT is well-established, driving decision-making according to skin color—not individual value and talent. As Critical Theory ideas become more familiar to the viewing public in everyday life, CRT’s intolerance becomes “normalized,” along with </span><b><span style="color: #38761d;">the idea of systemic racism for Americans,</span></b><span style="color: #061d46;"> weakening public and private bonds that create trust and allow for civic engagement.</span></span></p><div><br /></div><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><b style="font-family: "chronicle display a", "chronicle display b";"><span style="color: #38761d;">the idea of systemic racism for Americans,</span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: courier;">That might be a good thing for more people to look at <b>the system as being racist</b> in addition to <b>individuals as prejudiced.</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f5f8; font-size: 26px; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: courier;">These are some of the possible ways to interpret the paragraph at the beginning of this blogpost. You are invited to submit additional comments (below and by email to myNewMethods@gmail.com). </span></span></span></p></div>Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-53972934123221801012022-06-28T09:46:00.000-07:002022-06-28T09:46:10.506-07:00Another set of REMINDERS to add to the SEND HOME book. (a selection of files from the LearningScientists.org website)<p>Read these sentrences:</p><p><br /></p><p>https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2016/8/18-1</p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Learning Scientists have put together a set of reminders for teachers and sstudents about how to learn flexibly.</p><p>You are given the right to download and distribute the set of reminders because.... Learning Scientists asks you to follow these rules:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />The materials are covered under a creative commons license, and are free anyone to use to use so long as they are not altered and they are not sold for profit. This is okay as long as you are giving the students the books for free, selling them at cost, or even if it serves as a fundraiser for a non-profit school.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thanks for asking,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Megan<br clear="all" /><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On behalf of The Learning Scientists (Megan, Cindy, Carolina, & Althea)</span></b></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.learningscientists.org/&source=gmail&ust=1656519784066000&usg=AOvVaw0aFS0ZwVzEw6KcWGH4Kibr" href="http://www.learningscientists.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.learningscientists.org</span></b></a></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">========</p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This reply came after I emailed this request:</p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Hello </p><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">I'm a high school teacher and I create textbooks for my students</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Is it okay to reprint some of the learning tools that you have on your website, such as</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Six strategies for learning </div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Steve McCrea</div><div dir="auto">Sunfire high school </div><div dir="auto">2360 west oakland park Blvd </div><div dir="auto">Oakland park fl. 33311</div><div dir="auto"><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">========</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">What are these resources? Here are some screenshots and links to the files</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div></span></div></div></div></div><p><br /></p>Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-78321389910221826302021-03-09T12:05:00.005-08:002021-03-09T12:05:55.340-08:00The Unavoidable, Unbelievable, Unending and Unwanted Costs of Personalizing and Transforming a School<p> </p><span id="docs-internal-guid-1a34cb19-7fff-7263-8acd-31b8899d7eea"><i><br /></i><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The final article that emerges from this blog post will be submitted to journals, such as TOJDE (the Online Journal for Distance Education), which published a previous article about transforming schools LINK</i></span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is an outline for an article called “The Unavoidable, Unbelievable, Unending and Unwanted Costs of Personalizing and Transforming a School”</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Abraham Fischler, a pioneer of distance education, wrote in 2006 that we should... </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stop throwing money at the current system</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We can't put money in the existing system and expect change. The analogy that I use is the propellor versus rockets. You can throw all the money you want at the propellor system, but you'll never get to the moon. You need a new principle operating with a new fuel that can</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">operate external to the atmosphere to get to the moon.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In other words, Fischler pointed out that </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">w</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e need a new principle to focus on students, not on the group.</span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other industries have made similar changes and it is now time for education to do the</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">same. FedEx can tell you where any package is at any time. Look at banking, which is now available 24 hours a day through ATMs and you can go to almost any ATM to withdraw or deposit funds. Both industries invested in information and delivery systems to meet</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the needs of their clients rather than asking their clients to accommodate to a fixed structure. Now the automobile industry is enabling customers to order on demand rather than requiring them to accept whatever is available in the dealer’s lot. In the business world, however, there is</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">competition that requires companies to adapt – education has not had this catalyst.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As long as time is fixed, then student progress is what is variable within the fixed time frame.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thus, 30% of the student population is punished through failures.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; 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text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/spn1xGycar8" width="320" youtube-src-id="spn1xGycar8"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interview with Larry Rosenstock</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">This set of high schools in Southern California is worth a visit. Students show visitors me how they create digital PORTFOLIOS of their work and put the work for display on websites and blogs. See more at <a href="https://freewebsiteproject.blogspot.com/2016/08/links-to-free-materials-for-free.html " target="_blank">https://freewebsiteproject.blogspot.com/2016/08/links-to-free-materials-for-free.html </a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-61606227611909801072015-09-19T02:22:00.001-07:002015-09-19T02:22:35.194-07:00Another edition of Dan Pink's email newsletter. It's such a bonanza and it is not too long... <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Continuing Education<br />
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One of the quotes that I posted in my classroom recently was<br />
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"The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read."<br />
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That's a reminder that we have so many opprotunities to move ahead through treading. <br />
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Here's what I look foward to... the infrequent letter from Dan Pink.<br />
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Here is his latest list of links to explore. I encourage you to sign up for his email letter.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Welcome to the latest edition of our irregular and irreverent newsletter. In this issue, you’ll find: a brand new interview feature called “Four Questions For”; the best piece of software I’ve downloaded in years; 4 books, movies, and podcasts I’ve recently discovered; and our usual collection of 7 must-read articles.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Let’s get started.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">HOW TO RAISE AN ADULT: 4 QUESTIONS FOR JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">We’re introducing a new feature here at the newsletter. I call it “4 Questions 4” (hereinafter “4Q4”). In every newsletter, I’ll enlist a smart writer with a new non-fiction book — and I’ll ask that person four questions. Four questions that cut through the clutter and get to the heart of what the writer is trying to say and what it means for readers. The same four questions every time. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">We launch 4Q4 with one of my favorite books of the year, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">How to Raise An Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;"> (Buy it at </span><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=d188891896&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">IndieBound</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">, </span><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=47e69cd7d5&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">, or </span><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=c7f5da8d0e&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">Amazon</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">). Here are four questions for its author, former Stanford University Dean of Freshmen </span><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=5fd4b027be&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">Julie Lythcott-Haims</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">:</span><br />
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<strong>1. Julie, what’s the big idea?</strong><br />We worry about neglectful parents, and rightly so. But there’s also harm at the opposite end of the spectrum: Overparenting. Whether via overprotection (think “bubble-wrapped kids”), overdirection (“tiger mom”), or too much hand-holding (“parent as concierge”) kids raised this way lack basic life skills, can’t think for themselves, don’t take the initiative, and suffer from alarming rates of anxiety and depression.</div>
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<strong>2. How do you know?</strong><br />As Stanford’s freshman dean, I saw more students each year who needed a parent to tell them what to do, how to do it, or outright do it for them, and who couldn’t cope with even small setbacks. Colleagues nationwide saw the same. I realized overparenting was to blame when one night at dinner I began cutting my son’s meat (he was ten). I was already doing too much for him and was on track to be “that parent” who couldn’t let go of him at eighteen. </div>
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<strong>3. Why should I care?</strong><br />Parents: regardless of the short term “win” you achieve by overparenting (<em>e.g</em>. a higher grade), in the long term your kid will be mentally unwell, lack skills needed in the workplace, and be bewildered when you’re gone. Boomers and GenXers: we have to hand the mantle of leadership to these “kids” one day. If young adults increasingly lack the wherewithal to act and think like an “adult” – and lead our institutions and families one day – what’s to become of our society?</div>
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<strong>4. What should I do?</strong><br />Teach kids to fend for themselves (<em>e.g</em>. wake themselves up, make a meal, keep track of their stuff, do their own work, meet deadlines, get places, talk to others, advocate for their needs, and bounce back from adversity). Here’s an easy four step method for teaching kids any skill: 1) do it for them; 2) do it with them; 3) watch them do it; 4) then they do it completely independently.</div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">More: </span><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=661267b534&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">How to Raise an Adult</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">THE BEST PIECE OF SOFTWARE I’VE DOWNLOADED IN YEARS: ADBLOCK PLUS</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Ads on the web are kinda creepy, right? </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Say you visit a sports goods site looking for swim goggles, but don’t buy anything. For the next week, that jilted vendor will follow you to every other place you visit — your bank, your local newspaper, that dermatology site you checked when you had that weird rash — beckoning you with ads for goggles you’ve already decided you don’t want. If this happened in meatspace, you’d call the cops.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">A few weeks ago, perhaps later than some of you, I found a solution. It’s called </span><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=5c02399b95&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">Adblock Plus</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;"> - a browser extension that blocks ads. It’s free, open-source, and it works like a dream.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Now I’m no longer assaulted by ads (though I can whitelist certain sites from which I do want ads). And pages load much faster.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Of course, some argue that </span><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=37b185e5d4&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">ad-blocking technology will kill certain web sites</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;"> by denying them revenue. But my view is that these innovations will force publishers to create better, more useful, less annoying ads or figure out less creepy methods for paying their bills.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">More: </span><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=3431ae4d6c&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">Adblock Plus</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">4 MORE THINGS YOU MIGHT LIKE</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Here’s some other stuff I’ve liked lately:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">BOOK: </span><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=4709067c06&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">. Barton Swaim’s vivid, funny, and often sad account of a few years writing speeches for a peculiar and persnickety southern Governor.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">DOCUMENTARY: </span><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=a943806e26&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">Going Clear</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">. From HBO Films, a look inside the bizzaro world of Scientology. Riveting (and slightly terrifying). </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">NEWSLETTER: </span><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=6a459f2456&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">Sunday New York Times Digest</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">. Matt Thomas reads the Sunday Times so you don’t have to. No crossword help, though. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">PODCAST: </span><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=f42ad10408&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">Hidden Brain.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;"> An amazing new show from NPR social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam. It launches next week, so be sure to subscribe now. (Disclosure: I have a small role in this one). </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">7 ARTICLES WORTH READING</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">From my Instapaper account to your email inbox comes our most popular feature. Here are 7 articles that caught my eye and charged my brain: </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=5d76c6e553&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">How to Graciously Say No to Anyone</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">The more time I spend on this planet, the more I realize that one secret to well-being is saying no. Austin Kleon explains how to do it with a touch of grace. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=4f2d8332f9&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">How to Improve Your Writing: 5 Secrets From Hollywood</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Structure, surprise, and the importance of being semi-miserable. More shrewd advice from Eric Barker.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=45c9561b7f&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">What You Miss When You Take Notes on a Laptop</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Shut the MacBook and take out a pen. You’ll be a better note-taker.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=9906073a04&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">A World Without Work</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Very thoughtful </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Atlantic</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;"> article by Derek Thompson about automation, leisure, and the meaning of work.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=79562154b9&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">The Coddling of the American Mind</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Another great </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Atlantic</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;"> piece, this one about the lunkheadedness of protecting college students from ideas they don’t like.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=8ee72d312e&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">Not an Introvert, Not an Extrovert? You May Be an Ambivert?</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">The </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Wall Street Journal</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">’s Elizabeth Bernstein on one of my favorite topics. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=029691f94b&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">Traffic signs with a heart ask you to stop - in the name of love</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Luc Rinaldi at</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;"> Macleans</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;"> covers another topic near to my heart: Emotionally intelligent signage.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">BONUS: If you’ve still got the time and the mental bandwidth, </span><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=16cf3efae9&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;"> is a short </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Wired</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;"> story I wrote on the science of being happy at work. And </span><a href="http://danpink.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd386f06403a9ef25ce755fbe&id=8056114660&e=0f1be6f81f" style="background-color: white; color: #26abe2; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;"> is a (not universally loved) PBS Newshour video essay I did explaining why parents, even nice ones, shouldn’t watch their kids' athletic events.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">That’s all for this edition. As always, thanks for reading our humble newsletter. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Cheers,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 21px;">Daniel Pink</span></div>
Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-33595796737117641872015-09-19T01:08:00.000-07:002015-09-19T01:08:10.338-07:00Edmodo makes a mobile app to assist commuinication between teachers and parents<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-91939167313442092172015-09-16T03:56:00.001-07:002015-09-16T03:56:22.115-07:00Another way to introduce a person<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">"A beautiful young girl"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Why describe the person's exterior? Why not say, "Here is an ethical person who volunteers twice a week at the hospital massaging the feet of old people."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first minute contains the language that I'm describing. Why can't we describe young women wihtout describing their physical attributes?</span><br />
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Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-89108688589076981022015-09-16T02:38:00.000-07:002015-09-19T00:49:33.815-07:00A discussion about Grades vs. "The Discussion Letter" (narratives)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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to each other, but <span style="color: blue;"><b>to help each student understand what he or she must
do to meet his or her own learning goals and needs.</b></span> In other words, when
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but to actually figure out what those activities and goals </span><span style="font-family: "Cheltenham"; font-style: italic;">should be </span><span style="font-family: "Cheltenham";">for
that student. When you say you want to get rid of grades, some people
think you want to get rid of standards altogether. It’s the exact opposite.
Using narratives really forces schools to look more closely at each stu-
dent’s accomplishments and gaps. The standards are determined in a
really personalized way by developing an individualized learning plan,
with goals and indicators of achievement for each student. Then it’s a
matter of evaluating that student in a real-world way: </span><span style="font-family: "Cheltenham"; font-weight: 700;">assessing the student’s progress as it compares to what he or she will need in order to
succeed in college and in life. </span><span style="font-family: "Cheltenham";">When you think about it, you can’t hold
students to any standard higher than that. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cheltenham";">Get the book (search terms)</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cheltenham";">"Big Picture 2004 Littky Amazon" </span></b></span><br />
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Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-58053951835340467202015-09-16T01:02:00.001-07:002015-09-18T18:20:43.305-07:00Charter school in Brevard County (Palm Bay, Florida) has Aquaculture, Apps room and music in the cafeteria ... Proof that the teaching the ‘Whole Child’ is 21st Century Learning!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">I was given a tour of Odyssey Charter School in Palm Bay by Dr. R. Harrison in September 2015. Here are some highlights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Aquaculture</b></span> in the front of the building</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The school embraces projects -- and has a connection with agriculture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Apps room: </b></span> I saw pairs of students working </span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">with PLTW <b><a href="https://www.pltw.org/our-programs" target="_blank">(Project Lead the Way) </a></b>to design Apps, and other software using hi-tech coding and other gaming systems. The school has paired itself with Harris Technologies</span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">.</span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ivoI1-8wngU/VflJpDwd7jI/AAAAAAAAVr8/gZACaP8vOhQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-09-16%2Bat%2B6.50.40%2BAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ivoI1-8wngU/VflJpDwd7jI/AAAAAAAAVr8/gZACaP8vOhQ/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-09-16%2Bat%2B6.50.40%2BAM.png" width="247" /></a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes the easiest way to learn about a good program that involves projects is to visit a school that found a good program. <b><a href="https://www.pltw.org/our-programs" target="_blank"> Look at the PLTW website.</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Food is prepared using organic and whenever possible, locally grown produce. Students enjoy the calming of a morning breakfast while various symphonic or jazz music plays in the background.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background: rgb(246, 246, 246); color: #002060; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Farm at Odyssey<u></u><u></u></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In front of the school, students engaged in the STEM program, collaborate with both their STEM Educator and an Organic Agricultural Specialist, in planning, designing, and building the school’s Aquaponics system. <i>The Farm at Odyssey</i> will eventually develop into a community program offering organic produce, and live fish (sold in buckets of water), which were born and raised in the Aquaponics system.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is currently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZaX0dEs-NY" target="_blank"><b>no Youtube account for the school </b></a>because "there's no real need for marketing." I hope that their best practices will soon be shown on YouTube so that my school might learn from watching how the Apps room is set up. </span><br />
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The school does not have an active social media section because 'We have a w<span style="font-size: large;"><b>ai</b></span>ting list. It's not really a priority." Well done. <a href="http://odysseycharterschool.com/" target="_blank">Here is a link to the webpage.</a> Look at the Nutritional Guide <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here's the text that caught my attention: <a href="http://odysseycharterschool.com/nutrition.html" target="_blank">I learned from these links.</a></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ecoliteracy.org/book/big-ideas-linking-food-culture-health-and-environment" target="_blank">This school raises the bar for all who teach ...</a> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And Dr. Harrison points out that schools in Connecticut go farther</td></tr>
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<span class="style4"><b>Nutrition and Healthy Living Education</b></span><b><br />
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</b>As a means to develop the full potential of every
child, the school will offer nutrition education to all of its
students. The student’s nutrition curriculum strand comes from <span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Big Ideas: Linking Food, Culture, Health, and the Environment</i>, written by the Center for Eco-literacy. </span></b></span><i>Big Ideas</i> offers key concepts drawn from the American Association for the Advancement of Science Benchmarks for Science Literacy<i>. LIFE: Linking Food and the Environment</i>
is supporting curriculum published by Teachers College Columbia
University. As described by LIFE curriculum, the modules increase
scientific conceptual understanding in life science as well as improved
attitudes toward personal health and nature. Positive behavioral
changes in relation to personal and ecological health are encouraged.</div>
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Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-64265641522013129742015-03-24T05:40:00.003-07:002015-03-24T05:40:46.621-07:00The Secret of the Sailing Stones (revealed in a blog on Discover)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/08/27/secret-behind-death-valleys-sailing-stones-revealed/#.VRFaSzTF-Hx" target="_blank">See the blog on Discover Magazine</a></b><br />
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<br />Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-90800614018557233992015-03-19T03:56:00.002-07:002015-03-19T03:56:30.550-07:00Why not post quotes from Littky's 2004 book? Hang them where people linger... near the water cooler... <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Search for <a href="http://youtu.be/EZY9L7xYVlQ" target="_blank">1 of 6 Posters and Quotes from Littky's Big Picture book 2004</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Littky's book could be presented to students and parents in pieces. How about delivering a quote on a sheet of paper and posting the paper in restrooms and on walls?</span><br />
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Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-26118260206313877572015-03-08T19:20:00.001-07:002015-03-08T19:20:21.055-07:00Fischler's vision about Transforming Schools is highlighted in a December 6 2014 event at Nova University called "|Time is a Variable," a workshop about Projects with schools from Miami, Palm Beach and Broward Counties<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i><b>BY ORGANIZING THE dance history timeline, with my classmates, it has helped me to understand the dimensions of people and culture.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i><b>Since each of us got to research a country of our interest, it was easier to participate in this history class.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i><b>When we shared information with each other. I gained a greater perspective about how the world shares common stories. The dance time line shows not only how dance began, but also the purpsoe behind the movements.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">500 years before Christ using f</span><span style="font-size: large;">ertility dances as rituals. Within ten centuries</span><span style="font-size: large;">, the dances were more organized with the Slavic tribes moved to Russia and folk dances began. Today dance is practiced with many of these influences.</span></span></b></i><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i><b>The timeline helps me understand why people from different cultures move the way they do by taking elements from the variety of cultures. The timeline motivates me to learn more about dance and dance history because I want to find the origins of my favorite styles.</b></i></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i><b>When I do ballet now, I can think about the social evolution that ballet had to endure to be eventually recognized as an art form.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm Jaime Torres, I also work at Miami Art Charter School. Now picture those dance kids coming into a math classroom. Math is the last thing on their mind. We teachers at MAC have to be creative. In order to teach math to students who aren't interested in math is using the Time is a Variable method. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Many students are absent from my class because they are going to competitions. So we give them deadlines and although "time is a variable," time is not infinite. Students need to take time to ask for help. in classes, we have teams where they discuss things. It's like one-on-one teaching, since I walk around and talk with students in small groups and individually.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Some of our students are more advanced so they can move ahead more quickly. We work for mastery. Students don't move to the next section until they show that they understand the topic. They show their mastery not only on paper but also with projects.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">They have to do presentations and videos. That's how I assess that they are ready for the next level. They have options based on what they are interested in. If they are a dancer, they can design a set or a stage in geometry. Give them time to work at their pace and let them follow their interests. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">We run a program that is online along with direct instruction and project based learning. In today's society a lot of principals think that they cannot go beyond certain parameters. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">I tell teachers to get the training to teach the standards to the students.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hcCryaHWaZo/VP0AjrIsY0I/AAAAAAAAVco/rlYsFT-xdsg/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-03-08%2Bat%2B8.31.53%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hcCryaHWaZo/VP0AjrIsY0I/AAAAAAAAVco/rlYsFT-xdsg/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-03-08%2Bat%2B8.31.53%2BPM.png" /></a><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">I have friends who are principals ... Many of us had mentors that told us to "teach to the test so we can get adequate scores." </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">But if we don't teach kids how to express their own answers, that test and their scores will do nothing for them when they get into college and they don't know how to research and write papers. When they can't write a paper and talk in their own words about a topic. Teaching to the test is the wrong approach.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Before I came to Florida, I was a little nervous to be coming into schools. I had my head down. My teachers encouraged me to open up and to be talking here and not to be afraid.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">A lot of people don't listen to rap music because of violence or they talk about doing drugs or doing bad things. But I recommend Jadakiss, whose real name is Jason Philips. I want to talk about him because in his songs, he talks about how a lot of kids are struggling. </span></span><i><b><span style="color: blue;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Jadakiss talked about Aliyah, one of his favorite singers. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b>Why hate because some people have more than others.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b>Right here why do they gotta open your package and read your mail, why do they stop brothers from getting their degrees in jail.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Rap is about expressing your feelings.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Jadakiss has inspired me for 8 years. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">I was excited to come and talk to you about this project. Thank you for letting me share about my interest in Jadakiss. <i> -- statement by Johnny Soto</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Through projects, so many students are finding their voices, students who have struggled through several years of school.</span></span></div>
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Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-6976304430156037452015-02-06T12:11:00.000-08:002015-02-06T12:11:04.114-08:00Anonymous sites on the Internet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some useful sites that I learned about from my students </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a
distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of my students pointed out that I have an awesome job because I get to meet people.... via Skype and gmail.....</span><br />
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Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-6676600180228105272014-11-28T21:18:00.002-08:002014-11-28T21:29:27.547-08:00Fischler's story about how he got his teaching certificate. He asked students to suspend their judgment. "Don't jump to conclusions."<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-utHu-dakOJs/VHlWvAqUnDI/AAAAAAAAVOI/VZv1zdRX7FQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-11-29%2Bat%2B12.08.02%2BAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-utHu-dakOJs/VHlWvAqUnDI/AAAAAAAAVOI/VZv1zdRX7FQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-11-29%2Bat%2B12.08.02%2BAM.png" height="263" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/steve-tla-macrae/afischler-dscn0008goldfish-wav" target="_blank">Click here</a></b> to get the story from Dr. Fischler (how he became a teacher.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I took a lot of science but nobody taught me to "not jump to conclusions."</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i><b>I happened to see a goldfish in a tank. I anesthetized the fish and put the wires from a battery into the tank. I made it look like the fish was electrocuted.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The examiners didn't understand until they had an explanation from me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More items on SoundCloud <b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/steve-tla-macrae/o8-fischler-quotes-234" target="_blank">"Education is the lighting of a fire."</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/steve-tla-macrae/afischler-sany0004-2-m4a" target="_blank">30 percent of students drop out.</a></b>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another Sound Cloud: <b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/steve-tla-macrae/afischler-sany0004-2-m4a" target="_blank">Computer Assisted Instruction</a></b></span><br />
<br />Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-70662339077182906482014-11-28T04:08:00.004-08:002014-11-28T04:19:34.625-08:00A list of presenters at the 6 Dec. 2014 event to celebrate the creation of the Fischler School of Education Distance Education Museum and to highlight the work of Abraham S. Fischler, Ed.D.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dennis Yuzenas is a teacher in West Palm Beach</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">561 358 6884 <a href="mailto:dyuzenas@oapb.org">dyuzenas@oapb.org</a> <a href="http://whatdoyaknow.com/">WhatDoYaKnow.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">His presentation about <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfjXXk1AltM" target="_blank">"projects on a CD" shows Dr. Fischler (in 2011)</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/mattblazek"><b>www.TinyURL.com/mattblazek</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tammy Lara is a principal in Margate and leader of SunEd High Schools</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she encourages projects in her school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she also met with Fischler on Nov 13</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">b) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw7DR1zlasc" target="_blank">Tangent 46</a> a 15-minute video</span></div>
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Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-1296662732692569772014-11-26T03:43:00.001-08:002014-11-28T04:27:42.103-08:00Mark Twain' s quote about schools was seen in a park in Havana... on a t-shirt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This image was taken by Mario Llorente in a park in Havana. The quote is one of the quotes that Dr. Fischler comments on in his Web Book <b><a href="http://www.transform-education.com/" target="_blank">www.Transform-Education.com</a></b> and on his blog <b><a href="http://abe.thestudentistheclass.com/" target="_blank">abe.TheStudentIstheClass.com</a></b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can get the free ebook at <b><a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/FischlerEbook" target="_blank">www.TinyURL.com/FischlerEbook</a></b></span></div>
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Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-26167100563084172542014-11-13T01:52:00.002-08:002014-11-13T01:52:11.553-08:00What would you put in front of your students? What videos would catch their attention? "Strange Body in Ear" corpo estranha de ouvido in Portuguese<span style="font-size: large;">People who are not teachers are sometimes find the most eye-catching videos. Look at these remarkable images from videos found by a nurse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the "money shot"... you can see the insect in the ear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Guidelines for selecting a video for distributing to partents: Someone is going to be offended.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">(2) for future medical professionals, show the video one-on-one and let THEM distribute the video to their friends and classmates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Send your suggestions to VisualAndActive@gmail.com. I want to see more "strange bodies"...</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">She also underlined the importance of asking a student, "How can I help?"</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">She sent us an article that emphasized that our job as teacher is not </span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">"what can I teach today."</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">... it's </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">"How can I help you today?"</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"> A child who is hungry doesn't need a bold new worksheet.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">So it might mean more opportunities to talk to students about how they can use Skype in their homes to practice being BIB Penpals.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Students can go on <a href="http://www.bibpenpals.com/">www.BIBPenpals.com</a> and learn how to become conversation assistants over Skype for Jair da Silva Filho, a teacher in Brazil. Here's a sample video.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I read some of the reviews of Mr. McCall's book on Amazon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is one review that hit me in the solar plexus:</span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iLP7RsFwdy4/VEuR1dgV-zI/AAAAAAAAVGs/-EgYk5ibIkg/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-10-25%2Bat%2B7.56.32%2BAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iLP7RsFwdy4/VEuR1dgV-zI/AAAAAAAAVGs/-EgYk5ibIkg/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-10-25%2Bat%2B7.56.32%2BAM.png" height="242" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">I read much of McCall's autobiography. Some parts were difficult to read, particularly his struggles with his mind while he was in prison and how he escaped from reality with drug trips. Some of his tales could be told by some young males who live in my county, who have spent time in jail or who have roughed up people, treated women like furniture or worse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">His lack of skill as an entrepreneur reminded me of my lack of initiative and follow-through.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I saw his description of shifting form nonfiction to fiction and learning along the way. I would like him to be a mentor to my students. Even his video is a way to show students how a man presents himself.</span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I-CHTxjv1Do/VEuR1PYhgxI/AAAAAAAAVGk/0jEzotCfNyM/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-10-25%2Bat%2B7.57.33%2BAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I-CHTxjv1Do/VEuR1PYhgxI/AAAAAAAAVGk/0jEzotCfNyM/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-10-25%2Bat%2B7.57.33%2BAM.png" height="320" width="236" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">I hope my students will take time to look at this video and to hear his voice ... and perhaps take time to read his third chapter where he writes about what his experience was like in Key West watching TV.</span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pftZ7TEYI80/VEuUB9A93GI/AAAAAAAAVHQ/jPUS_T4b5Jw/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-10-25%2Bat%2B8.09.53%2BAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pftZ7TEYI80/VEuUB9A93GI/AAAAAAAAVHQ/jPUS_T4b5Jw/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-10-25%2Bat%2B8.09.53%2BAM.png" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.celebritynetworth.com/video/meet-author-nathan-mccall-499906117/">http://www.celebritynetworth.com/video/meet-author-nathan-mccall-499906117/</a></b></span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Makes-Me-Wanna-Holler-America/dp/0679740708" target="_blank">See the Amazon Review</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwiLrJ6Zoqg" target="_blank">INTERVIEW WITH OPEN WINDOW</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://brightdrops.com/uplifting-quotes" target="_blank">And here are some more thoughts to focus on, too...</a></b><br />
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Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-36980577965636341702014-09-01T16:46:00.000-07:002014-09-01T16:46:15.141-07:00Images from videos by Erik Friedl that describe and talk about principles in Big Picture schools<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This video was the first visit by Erik Friedl to Highland Park High School<br />where Enrique Gonzalez was principal.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><i>At regular high schools, you don't really know what school is really about.<br />Here you learn a lot about yourself and what school is really about. you want to educate yourself.</i></span></td></tr>
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Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-25487697046221895342014-09-01T09:59:00.002-07:002014-09-01T16:27:24.661-07:00Screenshots from a 2005 video visit to the Met Center in Providence, Rhode Island<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">November 2, 2005: The typical school day at the Met <br />starts with a "pick me up" (a pep talk). </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was a cold day (about 45 degrees at 8 am.) and some students<br />wore hats and overcoats inside the classroom.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The teacher placed a shoe in the center of the table and asked students to<br />write about the shoe. The class also read a Bertoldt Brecht poem about<br />the maker of the shoe.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This agenda was written and observed at 8:15 am. The advisory is the time spent with the fifteen students discussing the shoe.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The student describes her recent project to the filmmaker.<br />The temperature outside at 2 pm (around the time of this video clip) was<br />about 60 degrees F. (15 degrees C.)<br /><b><a href="http://weatherspark.com/history/31334/2005/Providence-Rhode-Island-United-States" target="_blank">See the weather report for Nov. 2, 2005</a></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">These two students walked up to the filmmaker and asked, <br />"What TV station are you with?"<br />The students then interviewed each other about their interests<br />and how the school work follows their passions.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Notice the shoe in the center of the table. The discussion started with a Bertoldt Brecht poem,<br />expanded to investigate the countries where clothing items were made, and ended with<br />a discussion of the percentage of items that were made overseas.</span></td></tr>
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Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-770781589536154362014-08-25T01:48:00.000-07:002014-08-25T01:48:05.855-07:00"Our Stories Matter" (a new book by Hans Hickler) can help students see that writing is a skill used throughout life.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Dan Pink has been writing for nearly a decade about the power of stories in advertising and persuasion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did a search on "the power of stories to persuade" and the list of articles confirms Pink's claim that stories often connect more than "facts."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A school mate Hans Hickler (a former CEO) sent me his book called<i> Our Stories Matter. </i> These are 20 profiles of people whose "soulfulness impacted me and remained with me."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I recommend this book for classrooms. I want to show students how adults take time to capture memories and share the stories that matter to us. Hans has served educators by showing that adults other than writers and teachers (who both write for a living) can take time to capture thoughts and memories. He took time to give value to his thoughts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The book was produced at <b><a href="http://mcnallyjackson.com/bookmachine/our-stories-matter-hans-hickler" target="_blank">McNally Jackson</a> in New York. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The process of writing a book takes time. I like the phrase that Hans uses in the cover letter that he sent with the book. He wrote that the book is part of his journey to create "the awareness that people need to lead with<b><span style="color: red;"> passion, strength and transparency."</span></b></span></div>
Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-44947902306856032502014-08-04T03:33:00.002-07:002014-08-04T03:33:36.009-07:00How do we inspire students to adopt the "Insanely Early" procedure?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3033834/hit-the-ground-running/the-new-habit-challenge-wake-up-insanely-early" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">CLICK HERE</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you get up early, would you agree to be a mentor to one of my students? Would you let that student call you and talk through the issue of "giving up late night TV and computer games" to prepare for the next morning?</span><br />
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Steve McCrea, Independent Educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564199570074194711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727513626736731207.post-31370534075605432472014-08-04T01:16:00.001-07:002014-08-04T01:16:18.871-07:00Who was John Venn? Who was responsible for the Venn Diagram? Is there a place in education for "random episodes of learning?\"?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sTGPYkTbRF8/U99BLNoNaHI/AAAAAAAAUmU/GEAsTzpHRfY/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-08-04+at+4.10.25+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sTGPYkTbRF8/U99BLNoNaHI/AAAAAAAAUmU/GEAsTzpHRfY/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-08-04+at+4.10.25+AM.png" height="172" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Random episodes of learning take place when Google changes its logo to celebrate the lives of "obscure" people.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px;">John Venn</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px;">, </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px; text-decoration: none;" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnon1926_2-0" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Venn#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnon1926-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPickles2004_3-0" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Venn#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPickles2004-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px;"> (4 August 1834 – 4 April 1923) was an </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px; text-decoration: none;" title="England">English</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px; text-decoration: none;" title="Logic">logician</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px; text-decoration: none;" title="Philosopher">philosopher</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px;">. He is famous for introducing the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px; text-decoration: none;" title="Venn diagram">Venn diagram</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px;">, which is used in many fields, including </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px; text-decoration: none;" title="Set theory">set theory</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px; text-decoration: none;" title="Probability">probability</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px;">, logic, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px; text-decoration: none;" title="Statistics">statistics</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px;">, and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px; text-decoration: none;" title="Computer science">computer science</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px; line-height: 25.454544067382813px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This demonstrates the need for "short learning moents" as long as we have time to integrate the bits into our current database.</span><br />
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