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The impact of human activity is changing Earth’s climate. Climate change deniers are comfortable sticking their heads in the sand hoping to wake up to a renewed planet. However, without immediate, focused, and sustained effort to reduce carbon levels from carbon dioxide and methane a renewed planet is just a dream. Here are some statistics…
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Let me share a few pieces of inspiration about being a parent and the difficult work before us as we as we learn to nurture our children. As a parent of a 26 year old daughter, I took to great heart the wonderful wisdom of Kahil Gibran, a poet who has inspired me since I…
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Have we given much thought to whether students learn from the grades they receive? When is the last time you heard a teacher remark: “I gave my students 10 minutes to reflect on what they learned from their test grade.”? Is a grade a measure that is instructive? What message is a grade communicating to…
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Cleaning up, growing up, waking up and showing up are Richard Rohr ‘s 4 stages for leading a Christian life. Richard Rohr explores these stages in one of his homilies and points out that most Christians are still in the “cleaning up stage.” What is the journey we each have to be on to arrive…
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I think about assessment culture in school all the time. It’s a topic I have written about before and remain stymied by how stuck we seem to be. I would offer that one reason why innovation in teaching and learning is so hard in schools, public or private, is that our views on assessment are…
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