Conference to Restore Humanity! 2025: Quest for Connection

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Literacy, Democracy, and the Pledge of Allegiance

Bloome et. al.

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An analysis of the perceived/real forced practice of the Pledge of Allegiance within schooling.

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Mario is Toronto educator | M.Ed in Curriculum Design & Education Policy | Research & reflection.

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Reimagining public middle schools in Western Michigan.

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Listening and learning from 400+ young people & educators.

Monte Syrie

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Monte's motto: Do. Reflect. Do Better. HS ELA Teacher, Project 180 Founder.

You Can…Until You Can’t

February 22, 2019

Can they turn that in late? Can they retake the test? Can they use resources? Can they demonstrate differently? In many classrooms, yes. But in the “other many,” kids confront cannots.

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Something There Is That Doesn’t Love a Grade

January 17, 2019

We give our kids opportunities to show, to demonstrate that they are growing, that they are learning. And then, at some point, the chase has to come to an end, and we have to try to make sense of it all. We have to turn it into a grade. But…

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Lies on Their Shoulders

January 10, 2019

Whether we think it or say it, when we warn kids with the “real world,” it is an affront to their existence, to their humanity, to their reality.

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The Way of Things

December 11, 2018

Somewhere along the way we got our wires crossed. What I expected and what she thought I wanted were two different things, and, consequently, it affected her performance.

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Work's Worth

November 20, 2018

And while I didn’t always appreciate the lessons from work when I was younger, I proudly acknowledge the impact they had on shaping the person I am today. Hard work matters.

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A Different Sort

November 7, 2018

Maybe instead of clinging to the “some-win-and-some-lose” approach to education, we should embrace the “all-need” approach.

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The difference with school communities, just looking at a normal mainstream school community, what I perceive is a community where there's lots of external goals. You've got five stickers for being great. You've got three they call them smiley faces or they have a name for something. So there's an external reward for being good. For me, it's just like, "Eh-eh." It's such a fundamentally wrong thing in a community to have that as your basis of if you're good or bad.

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