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The author reflects on the changes and stagnations over 23 years since 9/11, highlighting ongoing societal issues like dependency on foreign oil, political division, and rights struggles. They hope for a better future while observing the Memorial Morning with personal traditions.
The Power of the Notebook You’ve probably noticed by now that I loathe busy work. I hated it as a kid and I hated it as a teacher. It drove me nuts to see colleagues assigning busy work then complain about how much they had to grade. Now, formative work—the work you need to look…
The Importance of Being in Error So much of our teaching life is focused on getting students to get the right answers that it’s all to easy to ignore the importance of mistakes. One thing that was rarely—if ever—stressed in my teacher training was self-reflection. How’d the lesson go today? What went right? What went…