Associate Professor of Education at Southern Oregon University, rural scholar and tiny island enthusiast
Ashland, Oregon
Joined April 2014
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2. This will continue to tighten this corporation’s grip on testing for new teachers by providing a veneer of legitimacy and buy-in by educators.
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We seem to be caught in a loop in this country where, having determined that life can be brutal, mean and ugly, we've decided that the best response is to be more brutal, more mean, more ugly 1/
I tried to text a friend a morel risotto recipe and got into a fight with autocorrect:
Perhaps you meant “model risotto”? -No
Maybe you meant “mortal risotto”?
-I hope not!
Ah, you must mean “motel risotto”. -That’s not a thing.
Of course. You meant “moral risotto”.
-I hate you.
Every day starts with the same delusion. “I’ll just answer the emails that came in overnight…real quick” I say to myself. “Then I’ll start on my to-do list”.
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Book Banning: When you erase the history/experience of one kid to "protect" another, what you're also saying is that there is one type of kid worth protecting.
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Apply Now!! for our #MSc #Island #Biodiversity and #Conservation in partnership w/ @UoEBiosciences
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Ahead of the winter solstice tomorrow, the capybara of Nasu Oukoku Zoo took their annual yuzu hot bath
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🧵Educators sometimes feel as if all teaching prior to our own careers must have been terrible, and boring. We imagine generations of students sitting meekly & miserably in rows, waiting for our more enlightened approach to save them from drudgery & being smacked with rulers. 1/5
5/5 Have any of my fellow #teachered colleagues heard of this book? Have I been living under a rock and this is actually a well-known classic? The authors quote Dewey but I can’t find much about them online.