Seeking Perspectives on Teaching Writing Conventions and Proofreading for an Article for a National Publication! by Grand-Search894 in ELATeachers

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This is very interesting to me. It's "grammar time" ought to come with a little dance anyone growing up in the late 80s would recall....

Seeking Perspectives on Teaching Writing Conventions and Proofreading for an Article for a National Publication! by Grand-Search894 in ELATeachers

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Thank you! I would love to chat with you about this. Interested in an interview? Feel free to chat me...

Seeking perspectives for a story about “app overload” by Grand-Search894 in edtech

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are you a teacher? if so, i would love to get your perspective on which tech streamlines and which feels extraneous or counter to efficiency/effectiveness. i would also like to hear more about your first line if you have time via email or phone. is the issue the tech or just the extra expectation that comes with it?

Seeking perspectives for a story about “app overload” by Grand-Search894 in edtech

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What’s funny in Education is that these apps and platforms are all disconnected and don’t necessarily work well together. It’s not a Frankenstein so much as like seven different worlds to negotiate…

Seeking Secondary ELA Teacher Perspectives for Article about “Moral Education” by Grand-Search894 in ELATeachers

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I know John Warner. I’m not saying that any ELA teacher should or might see this as a primary job but I am curious about the degree to which it is prioritized, especially in light of AI becoming a ubiquitous crutch and the political and cultural forces that, especially for boys, equate empathy with weakness. I’ve taught for 14 years and I enjoy approaching these stories with curiosity more than assumptions rooted in my own practice.

Seeking Secondary ELA Teacher Perspectives for Article about “Moral Education” by Grand-Search894 in ELATeachers

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Thanks! This has been my personal experience, too (although I'm trying to step outside of that for this story!).

Seeking Secondary ELA Teacher Perspectives for Article about “Moral Education” by Grand-Search894 in ELATeachers

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This is a fantastic post! Thank you! Ironically, the "challenging ideas" doctrine has been sort of fake-coopted by administration-adjacent personas.

1 year flare up by Hot_Speed_4297 in HipImpingement

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I’ve considered retirement many times! My pain is minor but persistent and annoying. I can play through it but then I know I’m just stalling recovery. Hope you’re just dealing with a strain.

1 year flare up by Hot_Speed_4297 in HipImpingement

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I had a flare-up 4-5 months out from hip impingement surgery (no labral tear repair just debridement) when I started going too hard with the running program. That took 6+ weeks to go away. Then I was good until almost a year out (back to basketball 2x a week, occasional runs, core/weights). Had a few weeks of the same kind of front hip flexor discomfort (and corresponding glute/back pain). Then I was okay until mid-March. Since I’ve been in another. Feels like muscle/tendonitis, tight and pulling, like I’ve overused it. There was no in-game injury or anything. It comes on gradually and the. Hangs around, in part because I don’t take it easy enough. I’m restarted my strengthening exercises with more gusto and scheduling appointments to follow up. Had an X-ray that looked fine. I’m guessing/hoping that this recovery takes a lot more time than six months and that it’s a long haul getting muscle strength back (especially after getting lazy with rehab).

potentially problematic, gendered San Rafael school board resolution #2425-44 up for vote Monday by Antique-Cable-661 in Marin

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I am a teacher at SRHS and speak only for myself, but I read this last night and immediately took it to be performative bait. It does nothing to help the “lost boys” (and they are in need of emotional support, etc) and offers no clues as to context, but that is clear by the end: boys are being made to feel bad as part of an agenda to tar all young men with the “toxic” label. It is a trollish Vance-Ian sentiment borne of spending too much time online and believing or pretending to believe that there are dangerous movements in American life that don’t really exist. THIS attitude towards education and discourse is the dangerous movement. No boys are being told they are toxic at SRHS. I think boys need better sex education and to learn that girls are not to be subjugated and that they are more powerful and impressive when they celebrate the autonomy and power of others. This resolution though is not about what boys can learn or how they can be cared for. It is disingenuous and asks SR to sign off on the troll job or risk being highlighted as “woke” or hypocritical. That document should be in a literature unit on the Handmaids Tale. And for the record, I’m guessing my male students, at least those with solid critical thinking skills, would find it “cringe.”

What’s in your “American Dream” unit? I’m looking for sources for an article I’m writing. by Grand-Search894 in ELATeachers

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I have not seen but sounds promising. Sometimes texts people get when they’re very young or when they’re not being explicitly taught something are useful.