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suggested blogs to follow for the Teacher as Advocate badgeBloggers for the Center for Teaching Quality
(Look on the right side of the page under "Our Bloggers." There are several pages of them.) David Theriault - The Readiness Is All Mike Rose Jose Vilson Antero Garcia - The American Crawl Relando Thompkins-Jones - Notes from an Aspiring Humanitarian Brianna Crowley - Red Pen Confessions Kevin Hodgson - Kevin's Meandering Mind Jessica Cuthbertson - In a Teacher's Shoes Bud Hunt - Bud the Teacher: Inquiry and Reflection for Better Learning Dana Huff - Huff English Bill Ferriter - The Tempered Radical Nancy Berile - Adventures of a Punk Rock Teacher Dean Shareski - Ideas and Thoughts Brian Sztabnik - Talks with Teachers Bloggers ecommended by the Bad Ass Teacher Association (and yes, that really is a thing) Winners of the Edublogs Award (Be sure to follow an individual blogger.) books
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suggested websites for Teacher as Advocate badgeEveryday Advocacy
Educators for Excellence Students for Reform Education Reform Now Ed Choice Coalition for Essential Schools Center for Education Reform Education Next National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Rethinking Schools Teach for America Center for Teaching Quality The Education Trust National Writing Project Literacy and Learning Exchange National Education Association links of general interestDo Now provides youth a platform for using social media to examine and discuss, pressing contemporary issues in the arts, science, and civic education.
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media"Giving Students a Leg Up with Job Skills a Resume Won't Show"
This excerpt from a PBS NewsHour episode provides insight into the function of badges have begun serving beyond the classroom. Daring Classrooms
According to researcher Brené Brown, over 90% of us can remember a specific teacher, coach, or administrator who made us believe in ourselves when no one else did. In this talk, she explains how teachers can create classrooms that make space for vulnerability, which in turn makes way for lasting learning because it allows students--and teachers,for that matter--"to be who they really are." Google Drive Basics: Working with Others
This brief video has some really good tips on how to share, retrieve, and organize files and folders. On Rhetoric:
What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion (You may also be interested in the original video of the Washington Post subway experiment that is referenced in the video..) |
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