Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Discussing A Whole New Mind with Daniel Pink

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Friday, January 31, 2014

Letter to my students and parents

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After the incident at AHS on 12/13, I wrote the following letter to my students and their parents. I wanted to share it with you: Over b...

Powerful Message for a Friday

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It has been over 6 weeks since the shooting at AHS. I am posting the letter I wrote to my students and parents later on today. Somehow, ...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture: Part 4

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Newkirk closes his book discussing humor as well as reiterating his arguments regarding the need for us in education to reconsider what ...

Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture: Part 3

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Newkirk opens chapter five defining violence and coming to the most challenging arguments for me in his book.  He defines violence as “ ...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture: Part 2

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Newkirk opens chapter 3 discussing why kids feel resistant towards reading, “ Too often the argument for reading is made by those who ha...

Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture: Part 1

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Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture Thomas Newkirk in his book, Misreading Masculinity hopes to helps schools an...
Friday, June 07, 2013

Do I Really Have to Teaching Reading: Part 4

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Tovani instructs her students to be selfish about their reading and learning. They should ask of each text, “What’s in it for me?” She want...