This depressing passage above comes from today’s New York Times article, These Are the Rioters Who Stormed the Nation’s Capitol . One can only imagine what these teachers are doing in their classrooms…. You might be interested in Ways To Teach About Today’s Insurrection – Share Your Own , which has many new resources I added earlier this morning.
geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : I think everybody – especially teachers here in California – will want to read this first article: I know we're all correctly focused on the insurrection but, if u read anything else today, check out these stats —— Gov. Newsom’s push to reopen schools slams up against raging COVID-19 sur
I have added a ton of very useful resources today to WAYS TO TEACH ABOUT TODAY’S INSURRECTION – SHARE YOUR OWN. For what it’s worth, I talk about what I did today in this article: Lessons from an Insurrection: A Day After D.C. Rampage, How 15 Educators From Across U.S. Helped Students Make Sense of the Chaos @The74 https://t.co/6kXO5Eopbl — JoAnne Wasserman (@Bkjowasserman) January 8, 2021 In add
17 Approaches for Encouraging Students to Revise Their Writing is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Five educators offer instructional strategies to use when teaching writing revision, including the power of an authentic audience. Here are some excerpts: I’m adding this five-part series to The Best Resources On Getting Student Writers To “Buy-Into” Revision – Help Me Find M
Memed_Nurrohmad / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : I have concerns about our district’s leadership, but this letter signed by superintendents, including ours, is a good one: 7 key California school superintendents blast governor’s new school reopening plan is from The Washington Post. California schools need more than Newsom’s $
Wokandapix / Pixabay Here are a few teaching ideas for tomorrow (teachers have given me permission to share their tweets): – Starting by covering the process of electoral college voting verification and the Georgia senate election. – give students a chance to take a look a three different news sources on what happened today at capital hill (2) — Nicole Pate (@MrsPateHistory) January 7, 2021 – giv
ElisaRiva / Pixabay Here are just a few tweets about today’s insurrection, called for by President Trump: Take this in: Never once, in the years 1860-1865, was this flag ever paraded in the halls of the American capitol. pic.twitter.com/NFFVM0aSY0 — Sam Wineburg (@samwineburg) January 6, 2021 Disrespectful Respectfully Protesting Protesting pic.twitter.com/E51qTm1Qhe — Top Shotta P (@vitaminDiddy
amberzen / Pixabay If you don’t already know about the work of Stacey Abrams and her colleagues, and what undergirds their work, you might want to check out my previous post, Here Are Resources For Learning About The
