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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoBoots Riley on Labor, Palestine & I'm A Virgo - YouTube2023-12-06T05:32:12+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siZgRBQtCRo
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https://blog.ayjay.org/gardening-strategies/
robertogrecoYou learn to teach by teaching. I never had any educational training, luckily. I say “luckily” because I went into the classroom knowing that I didn’t know anything, and therefore realizing that if I wanted to learn something, I’d better keep my eyes and ears open and think about what I was seeing and hearing. The only way you learn about teaching is to do it and to see which of your inputs into this environment produce helpful results and which don’t, and maybe to talk about your problems with other teachers and say, “How are you making out?”
I would just add one point: What you can do might be something different than what another teacher can do.
Many years ago, I was asked to observe the teaching of one of my colleagues, Christina Bieber Lake. I walked into her classroom, saw 32 students, and thought Hmmm, I wonder how she’s going to handle this. I thought that because I knew that Christina strongly preferred leading discussions to lecturing, and how do you manage a discussion with that many people in the room?
The answer was: Easily. The conversation flowed both smoothly and energetically, and in the one-hour-plus-change that I sat in the back of the room, 27 of the 32 students spoke up — without prompting. I think my jaw literally dropped. My first thought was: I want to teach that way.
But upon some reflection I had a second thought: I don’t think I can teach that way. I realized that just don’t have the skills, or, maybe more accurately, the feel for the thing. Now, to be sure, I knew I could be better at leading discussions. But I wasn’t going to be a better teacher by trying to imitate Christina, even if I could learn from her.
I often think of something Bob Dylan once said:
I’d like to drive a race car on the Indianapolis track. I’d like to kick a field goal in an NFL football game. I’d like to be able to hit a hundred-mile-an-hour baseball. But you have to know your place. There might be some things that are beyond your talents. Everything worth doing takes time. You have to write a hundred bad songs before you write one good one. And you have to sacrifice a lot of things that you might not be prepared for. Like it or not, you are in this alone and have to follow your own star.
]]>alanjacobs johnholt austinkleon teaching howweteach difference teachers education learning howwelearn personality chrstinabieberlake bobdylan lcdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4533dae07fce/The teacher as gardener - Austin Kleon2023-09-17T02:28:10+00:00
https://austinkleon.com/2023/09/15/the-teacher-as-gardener/
robertogrecoThe most important person in the learning process is the learner. The next most important is the teacher… The teacher does not fill up bottles—it’s much more like gardening. You don’t grow plants by going out with Scotch tape and sticking leaves onto the stems. The plant grows. But the gardener creates as far as she or he can the conditions for growth—in the case of plants, soil, fertilizer, acidity, shade, water, etc. It’s simple with plants. With children, it’s more complicated. What the teacher does—and the parents at home—is to create an environment, which is in part physical—there are books, records and tapes, and tools—and in part emotional, spiritual, moral, intellectual, in which growth can occur. Now that’s a very subtle, very difficult, very interesting task. Nobody in any school of education that I’ve ever heard of would describe it that way.
So where do teachers learn to teach?
You learn to teach by teaching. I never had any educational training, luckily. I say “luckily” because I went into the classroom knowing that I didn’t know anything, and therefore realizing that if I wanted to learn something, I’d better keep my eyes and ears open and think about what I was seeing and hearing. The only way you learn about teaching is to do it and to see which of your inputs into this environment produce helpful results and which don’t, and maybe to talk about your problems with other teachers and say, “How are you making out?”
"]]>austinkleon johnholt teaching howweteach howwelearning difference learning environment 2023 teachers children gardens gardening howwelearn education lcdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3ecefd7c069b/David Roediger on the Sinking “Middle Class” - YouTube2021-07-12T03:32:01+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-wAzluojyU
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https://annehelen.substack.com/p/a-loose-essay-in-figures
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https://newrepublic.com/article/161608/inside-long-messy-year-reopening-schools
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https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/33063300
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https://thebaffler.com/latest/get-real-ray
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http://carolblack.org/the-gaze
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https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/we-need-make-connection-between-teaching-education-and-democracy
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https://twitter.com/michaelianblack/status/955627973411065856
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http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-disease/
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https://writelearning.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/what-does-this-teacher-make-me-frustrated/
robertogrecoI make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.
I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor
and an A- feel like a slap in the face.
I make kids sit through 40 minutes of study hall
in absolute silence. No, you may not work in groups.
No, you may not ask a question.
Why won’t I let you go to the bathroom?
Because you’re bored.
And you don’t really have to go to the bathroom, do you?
I make parents see their children for who they are
and what they can be.
I make them apologize and mean it.
Teachers make a goddamn difference! Now what about you?
I have to admit, even as I type this, I’m a little flustered. Okay, really flustered. But not simply angry: rather, I’m saddened, and kind of triggered, by this piece. You see, I have a decent idea where this guy is coming from, having taught in conventional schools at the beginning of my career. Twenty years ago, I likely would’ve thought this was the most brilliant, eloquent defense of the profession I’d ever heard.
Because it’s true: teachers willingly place themselves in stressful environments; they paint big targets on their backs. And why? In many cases, it stems from a profound idealism, passion, and desire to serve. Not only are their salaries misaligned with the lip service they’re paid about shaping future generations, teachers are caught in the incessant cross-fire of criticism from students, parents, colleagues, administrators, and the public.
So I’ve been there, and I get it, I really do. Teachers are pursuing a noble cause, and in return they receive a mountain of shit. What upsets me is the effect this has on many of them: defensiveness too often leads to self-righteousness, even narcissism and hubris. Well, congratulations, conventional schooling: you’ve created a culture of saviors and martyrs.
Think I’m being melodramatic? Take another look at Mali’s text and bask in the naked assertion of power, the delight he takes in being forceful. I make…I make…I MAKE. There’s a glowing pride in forcing young people to sit still, to work, to apologize—essentially, getting inside people’s heads and controlling them, directing them toward ends the teacher considers worthy.
Am I the only one who finds this disturbing? I certainly hope not.
“What Teachers Make” reveals an ugly dynamic that our culture has somehow come to regard as normal, even acceptable. Conventional schools put children and adults alike in situations where they are disempowered, their relationships twisted into ego trips and power plays. No amount of “for your own good” and “teachers are heroes” rhetoric can cover the stench of coercion and disrespect emanating from the system. Indeed, what are the drive for accountability and the madness of quantified, standardized “learning” but code language for “we don’t trust you”?
This system takes people and turns them against each other. When I was a new teacher in the early ’90s, the imperative “Don’t smile till Christmas” was already an ancient proverb. From a student’s point of view, ’80s films like The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off are celebrations of sticking it to The Man, those deadly dull and/or obsessively controlling educators who hold arbitrary power over us throughout our childhoods.
While I can’t blame anyone caught in this ugly scenario for lapsing into an adversarial mindset, I do call upon all of us to create something much better. No one ultimately benefits from a system in which people are assumed to be in need saving and expected to become martyrs. Children and adults alike deserve to be treated like people, as individuals with inalienable rights, worthy of trust, respect, and responsibility.
Half a century of Sudbury schooling demonstrates that not only can we trust people’s innate drives to learn, explore, and master, but that the results are even greater than anyone trapped in the dominant, industrial paradigm could dare to dream. Let’s not “make” anyone defend themselves against a system that dehumanizes and turns people against each other, that stigmatizes them as incapable, incorrigible, or incompetent. We know better."]]>2015 brucesmith sudburyschools taylormali coercion authoritarianism control teaching teachers education schools howweteachhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:89bb3e2bb61d/Robert Coles — The Inner Lives of Children - | On Being2017-02-22T00:27:38+00:00
http://onbeing.org/programs/robert-coles-the-inner-lives-of-children/
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https://t4sj.org/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/opinion/sunday/why-teachers-on-tv-have-to-be-incompetent-or-inspiring.html?ref=todayspaper
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http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/147062280616
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https://www.academia.edu/9610631/Unlocking_the_World_Education_in_an_Ethic_of_Hospitality
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http://www.autodizactic.com/queer-teacher/
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http://davecormier.com/edblog/2016/02/07/marc-rubio-rote-learning-and-getting-the-answer-right/
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https://storify.com/rogre/the-lessons-between-the-lessons
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http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/my-writing-education-a-timeline
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/schooled/2015/04/27/charter_schools_and_churn_and_burn_how_they_re_trying_to_hold_on_to_teachers.html
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http://shermandorn.com/wordpress/?p=7877
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http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=5c18e295df4ecba588321d9d1&id=47e1b479e6&e=ef391ec644
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http://willrichardson.com/post/114524327210/can-we-talk-about-change-without-hurting-feelings
robertogreco“I think when we say things like ‘school is broken’ it really demeans the hard work of so many educators who make school awesome everyday.”
As I would have expected, it was retweeted and favorited widely. The sentiment is, of course, that the failures of schools, perceived or real, shouldn’t be ascribed to the teachers who work with our kids every day. As George suggests, there are a great number of caring, smart, hard working adults in schools around the world who are trying to make school “the best seven-hours of a kids day” as my friend Gary Stager puts it.
What I can’t read in that Tweet is to what extent George feels schools are in fact “broken,” if he feels that way at all. And if they are failing in some aspects, is it possible to say that without “demeaning” the people that work in them?
As someone who finds the experience of traditional schooling to be increasingly out of step with the real world, and as someone who has come to believe that schools actually are “broken” in many ways, how do I write and speak about those viewpoints without being heard or read as hurtful or demeaning to educators in schools? Is that possible?
And if schools are in fact “broken” in either large or small ways, are we to hold all teachers blameless for that? Really?"]]>willrichardson 2015 georgecouros sensitivity education schools teachers constructivecriticism systemsthinking policy unschooling deschoolinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b79ce5d3144f/Chapel Hill Shooting Victims Were 'Radiant,' Teacher Says : NPR2015-02-15T22:35:28+00:00
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/13/385846609/chapel-hill-shooting-victims-were-radiant-teacher-says
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https://dianasenechal.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/the-all-and-nothing-of-teaching/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWSaceaSpRI
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http://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-15-scribbled-leatherjackets
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http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0030182
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http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/not-for-teacher/
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http://continue.edublogs.org/2013/11/17/requiem-for-reports/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4AA6EuZe-k
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http://csc.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/09/06/1532708613503769.abstract
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http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/12/creativity_is_rejected_teachers_and_bosses_don_t_value_out_of_the_box_thinking.html
robertogrecoIn terms of decision style, most people fall short of the creative ideal … unless they are held accountable for their decision-making strategies, they tend to find the easy way out—either by not engaging in very careful thinking or by modeling the choices on the preferences of those who will be evaluating them.
Unfortunately, the place where our first creative ideas go to die is the place that should be most open to them—school. Studies show that teachers overwhelmingly discriminate against creative students, favoring their satisfier classmates who more readily follow directions and do what they’re told.
Even if children are lucky enough to have a teacher receptive to their ideas, standardized testing and other programs like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top (a program whose very designation is opposed to nonlinear creative thinking) make sure children’s minds are not on the “wrong” path, even though adults’ accomplishments are linked far more strongly to their creativity than their IQ. It’s ironic that even as children are taught the accomplishments of the world’s most innovative minds, their own creativity is being squelched.
All of this negativity isn’t easy to digest, and social rejection can be painful in some of the same ways physical pain hurts. But there is a glimmer of hope in all of this rejection. A Cornell study makes the case that social rejection is not actually bad for the creative process—and can even facilitate it. The study shows that if you have the sneaking suspicion you might not belong, the act of being rejected confirms your interpretation. The effect can liberate creative people from the need to fit in and allow them to pursue their interests."
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"Most people agree that what distinguishes those who become famously creative is their resilience. While creativity at times is very rewarding, it is not about happiness. Staw says a successful creative person is someone “who can survive conformity pressures and be impervious to social pressure.”
To live creatively is a choice. You must make a commitment to your own mind and the possibility that you will not be accepted. You have to let go of satisfying people, often even yourself."]]>business creativity education psychology jessicaolien teachers teaching schools schooliness 2013 bias lcproject tcsnmy openstudioproject mediocrity davehickey art design barrystraw annawintour gracecoddington nclb rttt resilience happiness fulfillment glvo rejection controlhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cbe7bef8a656/New data shows school “reformers” are full of it - Salon.com2013-06-03T22:29:11+00:00
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/03/instead_of_a_war_on_teachers_how_about_one_on_poverty/
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http://theeducatorsroom.com/2013/12/the-exhaustion-of-the-american-teacher/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/magazine/not-so-hot-for-teacher.html?pagewanted=all
robertogreco2012 badteacher breakingbad tonydanza mattdamon pr publicimage robertkolker popculture perception caricatures television tv fil portrayal media respect teachers teaching elizabethalsophttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4ab283082f67/Getting To No2012-07-31T05:50:25+00:00
http://www.nais.org/publications/ismagazinearticle.cfm?Itemnumber=155958&sn.ItemNumber=145956
robertogrecorobertevans criticalfriends collegiality congeniality 2012 leadership candor honestry constructivecriticism via:carwaiseto michaelhuberman teaching teachers communication honesty feedback avoidance conflictavoidance conflict conversationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:55eb8d8556ab/Teacher Layoffs Go Hollywood: Zooey Deschanel's 'New Girl' Character to Be Pink Slipped - Education - GOOD2012-07-29T23:35:49+00:00
http://www.good.is/post/teacher-layoffs-go-hollywood-zooey-deschanel-s-new-girl-character-to-be-pink-slipped1/
robertogrecovia:lukeneff teachers pay education policy television zooeydeschanel tv newgirl pinkslips 2012 economicshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:552d056c3e6c/On Accountability, part 2: how to do it right « Granted, but…2012-05-23T14:59:43+00:00
http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/on-accountability-part-2-how-to-do-it-right/
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http://willrichardson.com/post/8060920718/how-can-you-not-be-angry
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I mean really…what’s it going to take?"]]>willrichardson activism apathy politics education reform policy language profanity comments teachers teaching anger 2011 edreformhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0f585a3fd491/Randy Turner: The Failure of American Teachers2011-03-20T22:55:26+00:00
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-turner/public-school-teachers-fail_b_835174.html
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Public schoolteachers have failed miserably by producing the most incompetent, mean-spirited legislators in U.S. history."]]>politics education teachers edreform failureofteachers teaching schools publicschools democracy learning 2011 policy government randyturnerhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:79e20f11c783/The New Humanism - NYTimes.com2011-03-09T03:25:17+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/opinion/08brooks.html
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http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/teacher-pay-around-the-world/
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"In the United States, a teacher with 15 years of experience makes a salary that is 96 percent of the country’s gross domestic product per capita. Across the O.E.C.D., a teacher of equivalent experience makes 117 percent of G.D.P. per capita. At the high end of the scale, in Korea, the average teacher at this level makes a full 221 percent of the country’s G.D.P. per capita."]]>teaching teachers comparison us pay salaries workday hours via:grahamje 2009 internationalhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:276f5e57e9cd/Edmodo | Secure Social Learning Network for Teachers and Students2010-08-28T18:33:16+00:00
http://www.edmodo.com/home
robertogrecovia:cburell education socialnetworking socialnetworks classroom collaboration edtech e-learning networking students teachers technology twitter elearning communication ict microblogging blogging classroomshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cd3fb4e36d81/SpeEdChange: Teachers, Tenure, Transformation2010-08-05T23:32:47+00:00
http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2010/04/teachers-tenure-transformation.html
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http://beyond-school.org/2010/06/29/advice-for-teachers-scorned/
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http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2010/04/11/we-are-in-deep-doo-doo/
robertogrecoeducation politics teachers teaching neoliberalism markets dianeravitch dougnoon loiswerner worldbank standardization testing economics money unions fragmentation standardizedtesting oversight textbooks charterschoolshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ec25146ff7a5/“Great” Teachers? « Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice2010-03-01T19:36:38+00:00
http://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/great-teachers/
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http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/feb10/vol67/num05/Why_Teachers_Should_Try_Twitter.aspx
robertogrecotwitter schools tcsnmy learning differences flow ples differentiatedlearning teaching ascd teachers leadership educationhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:755fa9f17615/The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | What Makes a Great Teacher? | Amanda Ripley2010-02-01T04:26:36+00:00
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/201001/good-teaching
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