inquiry
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Let’s Have Classrooms Full of Books!
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Creative, inquisitive classrooms are wonderful. But no matter how great the classroom looks, or how many provocations are employed, a classroom must have books. I love to read. I’ve talked about it in this space before here. Frederick Douglass said, “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” It’s the freedom to go anywhere…
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Goodbye! Goodbye!
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What should we wave goodbye to in education, for once and for all? There are obvious answers: word search puzzles, homework projects, some would say cursive writing, focus on standardized high stakes testing. It’s a big list. I wish that we could change the subject and department silos in secondary school. Yes, that’s right. I…