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#1 In 2016, Gaby Arredondo was trying to teach her class of twenty first-graders about captions. She had taught them that a caption is a label that describes a picture, but many of them had chosen the title of the passage instead.
#2 The American approach to elementary education is to teach reading skills completely disconnected from content. It doesn't matter what students...
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#1 The prefrontal cortex, which is the part of the brain behind our forehead and eyes, is responsible for executive functions. It is the largest part of the human brain and sets us apart from other mammals. It is also the part of the brain that develops slowly until we are about 25 years old.
#2 ADHD can be very frustrating for people, and it can affect their careers,...
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#1 Communication is the skill of sharing information from one person to another and multiple people at once. It is one of the most valuable interpersonal skills right now.
#2 Communication is involved in almost every aspect of your life. It helps you share ideas, build relationships, close potentially rewarding transactions, manage a group, and delegate tasks.
#3 Verbal...
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#1 To break the cycle of rejection, you must be completely honest with yourself. Aligning your thoughts and ideals with the reality of the situation makes less resistance for yourself.
#2 When you start thinking long-term and supporting those who are your real friends, you can stop pretending to be popular and focus on being yourself.
#3 The power of a rejection is...
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#1 You can believe in yourself and your abilities. You can turn your speaking nightmares into living your dreams. I believe in you.
#2 If you are afraid of public speaking, you are not alone. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people are terrified of giving speeches or presentations.
#3 You can't run from public speaking. You will have to speak at some point...
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#1 As we write this book, we are experiencing a quadruple pandemic: COVID-19, systemic racism, near economic collapse, and climate change.
#2 Street data is the qualitative and experiential data that arises at eye level and on lower frequencies when we train our brains to discern it. It is asset based, and it helps educators look for what's right in their students,...
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#1 I put my five-year-old son, Wyatt, on a bus for his first day of school. I watched him become more distant, and I noticed that he was losing his childlike innocence. He was becoming more interested in what other kids thought of him.
#2 I missed my son, and I wanted to give him a childhood. I wanted to experience it with him. I wanted to be with him all day, and not...
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#1 A literature review is the first step of a project. It entails defining and clarifying the subject of the research, and it requires four tasks: identifying a subject for study, translating this personal interest or concern into a research query, connecting the research query to the appropriate academic discipline, and writing the preliminary topic statement. 1. Identifying...
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#1 Aviation High School is a great example of how a school can help students become engaged and interested in learning. The school is all about structure, and students are kept so busy that they have neither the time nor the desire for antics.
#2 There are very few visits from American officials to Aviation High. The school is 85 percent male, and the women students...
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#1 A god to serve does not necessarily mean the God who is supposed to have created the world and whose moral commandments are presented in sacred texts. In the Western world, beginning in the thirteenth century, God was sufficient justification for the founding of institutions of learning.
#2 We cannot do without gods. We are the god-making species. Our genius lies...
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#1 The five elements of warfare are: method, discipline, the commander, the army, and military expenditure. The five heads should be familiar to every general. He who knows them will be victorious.
#2 The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes few calculations beforehand. Thus,...
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#1 I was a clueless student who never studied for exams and instead relied on rote memorization. But when I began teaching, I saw that my students were constantly in a fog of confusion, and I was able to help them understand the logic of the discipline and become motivated to spend time mastering the material themselves.
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#1 On Halloween 2008, a computer scientist named Satoshi Nakamoto published a whitepaper introducing Bitcoin, a digital currency that allows people to exchange money without going through a bank or credit card processor.
#2 Money has traditionally been held in two forms: physical items like cash or gold pieces or having a trusted institution like a bank or chieftain track how much...
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#1 Empress Elena Glinskaya, along with court advisors, was tasked with raising and nurturing Ivan the Terrible, the young emperor. However, when Elena died in 1538, Ivan was left alone with his court officials. He felt more like a prisoner than a prince.
#2 The fire of 1547, which destroyed much of Moscow, was a turning point in Ivan's life. He was forced to flee the...
15) Summary of Carol Ann Tomlinson's How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classro
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#1 Differentiating instruction means shaking up what goes on in the classroom so that students have multiple options for absorbing information, making sense of ideas, and expressing what they've learned. In other words, a differentiated classroom provides different avenues for acquiring content, processing or making sense of ideas, and developing products.
#2 While differentiated...
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#1 Tyshaun McPhatter, age nine, had struggled with his emotions for months. He was a troublemaker, and his teachers and mother were always worried about him. But one day, he just lost it and started to cry.
#2 Ava, who is white, was a Daisy Scout and wanted to become a cheerleader. She lived in the town of Townville, which was known for its abundance of churches and...
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#1 A five-year-old girl was fascinated by a nonfiction picture book about birds of prey and spent a lot of time studying them in her classroom. She became an expert on bird shadows and noticed a cartoon image on each page that didn't make sense. She wondered where the bird was going to get salt. It's not just children who can make those connections. I recently heard...
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#1 The Olmec people, who occupied the center of Mesoamerica, were believed to have been Africans. The first humans to reach the American continent probably came from northeast Asia or Siberia and intermarried with the early inhabitants, who were probably Africans.
#2 The land bridge allowed the first human ancestors to arrive in Mesoamerica about 1000 years after the...
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#1 You're doing it wrong. But here's the thing: you can't go back. You can't change your major. You can't change your mind. This degree is a done deal and there's no going back. I'm not going to tell you never to lie about your college plans, because it's perfectly safe to do so. But don't do it for the reaction, because you'll only make yourself feel worse when the real...
20) Summary of Sally J. Rogers, Geraldine Dawson & Laurie A. Vismara's An Early Start For Your Child
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#1 If you're overwhelmed by the amount of information and new terms that are being thrown at you, feel free to skip the next two pages and get right to the tips. The rest of this chapter is for parents who want to know what to do and how to do it. We will first introduce you to the organizations and people who can provide you with the help that your child needs. Then,...
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