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Finding a Professional Family
From the moment I met Emmy Negrin during dinner at Big Ideas Fest 2011, I knew that I liked her. We hit it off quickly, sharing interests in LGBTQ issues, backgrounds in international education, and enthusiasm for our Action Collab groups. I learned she had...
Open Ed. Resources Encourage Teachers to Tinker
Educators often argue that they need more control over the development of the curriculum they are teaching. Open education resources may be the answer, said several educators during presentations at the Open Education Conference here in Vancouver on Tuesday. ---...
Common Core Drives Interest in Open Education Resources
Spurred by the adoption of common-core standards by nearly every state, the movement for open digital resources is growing as educators realign curricula --- One tool to help educators determine the quality and alignment to the common core of a particular...
Seeding Special Education
A special ed teacher who practices inclusion is like an aerial trapeze artist, swinging from bars to balance beam with a grace that defies the conventions of gravity. For 30 years, my youngest sister, Evelyn Margolin, has been bouncing from class to class, working...
Call and Response – The Sound of Collaboration
In music, call and response is a technique where one musician offers a phrase and a second player answers with a direct commentary or response to the offered phrase. The musicians build on each other’s offering and work together to move the song along and create a...