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Episode 235 Transcript

…I would rather handle that myself.” GONZALEZ: Right. I could see myself making that mistake too, just being enthusiastic and trying to be supportive. There was a few times in reading your book where I sort of saw myself being a well-meaning, and I thought, “Oh. That, I’m glad I’m reading this.” So I think this book is good also for people who see themselves as very active, enthusiastic allies, not necessarily people who even need to learn more. They will still learn a lot of important stuff in this. EDWARDS: Yeah. GONZALEZ: Yeah. EDWARDS: Well, and I think, especially,…

Delaying the Grade: How to Get Students to Read Feedback

…only did I feel like I had wasted my time, I felt like they just didn’t care. And then the snowball of thoughts would start: How will they survive if they don’t care about feedback? What’s going to happen in college? Or when they get jobs? Ugh! I’m done! After dealing with this for about nine years, I couldn’t take it anymore. I either had to get over it or fix it. Since I’m not usually one to give up, I set out to find a way to get my students to actually read their feedback and care less about…

Episode 151: Historically Responsive Literacy

…basically trapped in our homes a lot of the times, and sometimes all we have is sort of text in one form or another, whether it’s through video or reading or blog posts or podcasts or whatever it is. I’m seeing people finding, needing to find that joy also and needing to exchange that love. And we’re doing it basically through literacy tools. MUHAMMAD: Yes, exactly. GONZALEZ: Yeah, as a form of self-care in a different kind of time, but with different struggles but still, that’s part of the human condition. MUHAMMAD: Mhmm. GONZALEZ: Okay. So let’s dig into the…

Find Your Marigold: The One Essential Rule for New Teachers

…you for sharing. I will stay away from the walnuts and learn to take care of myself. Me time is very important. Kathleen Smith I will find my Marigold by surrounding myself with good people as well. Shelley Jones Not only will you find your marigold, it’ll find you…. K. Shear-Jones This article is right on time. Not only does it remind me to stay positive and surround myself with those who are (Marigolds), but it reminds me that this not only happens in the world of education, but everywhere. This is a lesson that we should teach our students…

Making School Better for Gender-Expansive Kids

…than care. “There is so much legal kind of nonsense going around,” he explains, “different laws being passed that are guiding their access to things like facilities or using their name and pronouns. And I think when school communities only focus on their legal responsibilities, everybody loses. As the parent of a trans kid, I don’t want my child’s teachers to support her because it’s required by law. I want them to support her because they care about her and she’s an important person that’s a member of the school community. So that ‘Support happy and healthy kids’ guideline, you…

Building Better Collaboration Between Families and Schools

…language can make a big difference. “I tend to say things like your grown-up or your caregivers … caregiver conferences or collaborative conferences,” Qarooni says. Along with a change in language, we can also revise some of our activities to make them more inclusive. She suggests re-envisioning the standard family tree assignment as a community map or constellation of care. “I think about chosen family … tons of students have collective care maps that are beyond blood relatives. Those people would not show up on a family tree.” Explain Best Practices to Caregivers Our understanding of best practices may not…

Nothing Says Over 40 Like Two Spaces after a Period!

…essays from about half my students that have a variable number of spaces between sentences, sometimes as many as four, but often three. For most of them, the pedantic thing is that anyone *cares* how many spaces should go between sentences. That attitude comes from not really having any investment in their writing beyond what grade it earns, and they know through experience that most English teachers are too busy to spend much, if any, time fussing with them over typography, nor to hold them accountable for it in the form of a grade. So they learn not to care…

12 Ways Teachers Can Build their Own Resilience

…on what is happening right now without judgment, can help us to circumvent a “triggered” reaction to daily challenges and instead respond calmly and thoughtfully. Daily meditation or even brief moments of focusing on our breath can help us hit that “pause button” and bring ourselves to that place of calm. 6. Take Care of Yourself Suggested month: November “It’s really hard to build community or to cultivate compassion or be a learner—some of the other habits—when you’re just sick, when you’re worn out,” Aguilar says. So this month, she recommends focusing on the habits of physical self-care, digging into…

Kindergarten Redshirting: How Kids Feel About it Later in Life

…to worry about. People who are nerdy to go to college are probably going to be too nerdy to care about drinking. In-fact, take at look at these statistics. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_104.20.asp Most people never even graduate from college which means that those who do are highly ambitious. Usually, the more academically ambitious, the more socially introverted. I’m not saying that this is always the case, but it is the general trend. So people who are nerdy enough to make it to their junior year of college are probably going to be too nerdy to care for social activities such as bar-hopping….