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    Steven replied to the topic I am fighting the power! in the forum For Teachers 2 weeks, 6 days ago

    Just wanted to reply to this post with the name Richard Elmore. If you have time look him up. So often revolutionary ideas are considered from the fringe and thus untrustworthy. Elmore’s is a voice that would fit in here and he’s speaking as a professor of educational leadership at the graduate school at Harvard.

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    Twice this month so far I’ve seen a comparison between school and prison. One is a film called “the war on kids.” The film raises a lot of legit questions. The second is from a faculty member at Harvard. HARVARD! Yet so many are not listening. Is this comparison out of line? I’m not so sure. Richard Elmore link below.

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    Steven replied to the topic I am fighting the power! in the forum For Teachers 1 month, 2 weeks ago

    It’s a good attitude you have!

    Truth is I think the best any of us can do is simply what we know is right. Set aside the nonsense, know our students and what they need and how they learn and do what’s best for them. If we do that, the results will speak for themselves, don’t you think? And then, if anyone wants to argue with positive results,…[Read more]

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    Steven replied to the topic I am fighting the power! in the forum For Teachers 1 month, 2 weeks ago

    http://newsela.com/articles/school-nogrades/id/3437/

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    Steven replied to the topic I am fighting the power! in the forum For Teachers 1 month, 2 weeks ago

    The link below may be of interest to this thread. How I’ve wished for years I could do this!!

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    Steven replied to the topic SOLE in the forum For Teachers 1 month, 2 weeks ago

    It’s funny, the fact that there is no rigid summative assessment is precisely what drives many of my superiors nuts! “How can you measure if they’ve learned?” ..,as if that were a measurable item like weight and height. We seem to have lost the idea that people understand the world through unique prisms. We garner our own understanding of…[Read more]

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    Steven replied to the topic I am fighting the power! in the forum For Teachers 2 months ago

    Mr. West,

    your passion is inspiring!  I’m new to the site, but this is the type of thinking I’ve been searching for for years in education and have really never found.  I too have eliminated mc tests from my […]

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    Steven replied to the topic Teacher in Alaska – searching for and creating change in the forum For Teachers 2 months ago

    Mr. Luke,

    your philosophy is a light shining through the cluster of leaves in a dark dark forest.

    We seem to do a lot of things in our schooling system that go directly against the philosophies we preach. […]

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    Steven started the topic SOLE in the forum For Teachers 2 months ago

    I am wondering if anyone else has any experience in using Sugata Mitra’s Self Organized Learning Environment in their class.  I’ve started using it just this year, and would like to discuss and develop ideas that […]

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    Steven replied to the topic School 2.0: one way to do responsibly subversive school in the forum For Teachers 2 months ago

    Funny. This is how we do middle school in America for the most part and I’m convinced we need to stop separating classes by subject matter (is that what you mean you’ll do at your school?).   But yes, if it goes […]

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