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Twitter as the New Sampler, and Reflections on Tweets of Wisdom

On August 6, 2014   /   Benjamin Franklin, historic homes, NotYourFathersSchool, respect, samplers, Sean Junkins, students, Teacher Tom, Teacher Tom blog, teachers, Twitter, wisdom  
Twitter as the New Sampler, and Reflections on Tweets of Wisdom

In some ways my summer Twitter feed is an extension of the visits to historic sites that my antiquarian family (first with my parents, later with my children) has been making all of my life. On some wall of every Colonial or 19th-century or early 20th-century house […]

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Why Twitter Beats February

On February 21, 2014   /   assessment, curriculum, design thinking, EdCamp, educational technology, experiential learning, National Association of Independent Schools, NotYourFathersSchool, PLNs, schools, Twitter  
Why Twitter Beats February

It’s February, in case you hadn’t noticed. The weather, mercifully not snowing in Boston, at least, remains bleak and gray, the skies matching the snowbanks along the streets and sidewalks. Some vast percentage of the Lower 48 has experienced extremes of weather in the past month or […]

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Looking Inward, Looking Outward: Good for Us All

On January 29, 2014   /   #PubPriBridge, EdCamp, Gerald Bracey, Independent Curriculum Group, independent schools, NotYourFathersSchool, public schools, Twitter  

A large part of my life these days is a kind of distillation of what it has been for a while: advancing the work of independent schools. I’ve got threads going relating to curriculum and assessment, data development, professional development, even marketing. It’s all pretty fun, and […]

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EdCamps and the Dialogue We Need

On January 4, 2014   /   EdCamp Cape Cod, EdCamp Home, independent schools, NAISAC13, NotYourFathersSchool, public schools, TABS 2013, Twitter, unconference  

This afternoon I spent several very happy hours exploring yet another confluence of really interesting and powerful notions, the UnConference and the Google Hangout. The place: EdCamp HOME 2.0.  I just want to put it out there that one of the more educational aspects of EdCamp Home […]

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373 CRITICAL INNOVATIONS THAT NO COMPETENT TEACHER CAN AFFORD TO IGNORE—INNOVATION AND ITS AUDIENCES (Part 2 of 3)

On October 1, 2012   /   best practice, NotYourFathersSchool, PLNs, professional learning, school change, schools, teachers, Twitter  

Does the first part of this headline sound familiar? How many similar headlines have you read, or had tweeted to you? I see about a dozen a day, sometimes bouncing around my PLNosphere like an asteroid field. I admit that sometimes I bite—usually when the number is […]

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TRADITIONAL LANDS

I here affirm that the offices from which I work are situated on lands that have a very long and continuing history as a locus of residence, livelihood, traditional expression, and exchange by the Massachusett, Wampanoag, Abenaki, Mohawk, Wabanaki, Hohokam, O’odam, Salt River Pima, and Maricopa people. The servers for this website are situated on Ute and Goshute land. We make this acknowledgment to remind ourselves, our educational partners, and our friends of our shared obligation to acknowledge and work toward righting the inequities and injustices that have alienated indigenous peoples from the full occupation and utilization of these spaces.