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EdConnective Posts on Remote Learning

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I’ve recently been featured in two EdConnective blog posts about remote learning! EdConnective provides virtual teacher and leader coaching, and I’ve worked with them as a teacher coach for some time.

3 Great Tutorials for Online Learning This blog post highlights a free webinar I put together about online learning in addition to two other great resources to get introduced to online learning.

Tips from Virtual Educators on Supporting Students Remotely This post highlights advice from myself and other educators on moving to online learning!

The Adult Version of No-Nonsense Nurturer

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I had the privilege of being interviewed in the pilot episode of the EDpiphany podcast with CRC, an amazing educator and entrepreneur.

We talked about the No-Nonsense Nurturer model of teaching, and how Radical Candor could be viewed as the “adult version” of this. We also had some great laughs as we talked about how hard education work is!

Take a listen here: http://edpiphany.libsyn.com/pilot-adult-version-of-no-nonsense-nurturer

Educational Equity Is an LGBTQ Issue

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This post was originally published on The Bilerico Project.

Earlier this month in Denver, at Creating Change: the 27th National Conference on LGBT Equality, I was on a panel titled “The State of Education in LGBTQ America,” sponsored by Teach For America’s LGBTQ Initiative. At this year’s conference, queer and transgender people of color were front and center. As a teacher, it made me think about the how people in spaces like Creating Change can have a positive impact on queer and transgender students of color.

LGBTQ students of color enrich their school communities every day. Living at the intersection of multiple identities can provide opportunities to develop critical thinking skills, empathy, and leadership for the individual student, and it can also draw out those things in other students and adults. Supporting these students contributes to a positive learning experience for all.

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How Much Teachers Actually Work: A Not-So-Formal Case Study

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How Much Teachers Actually Work: A Not-So-Formal Case Study

This post was originally published on Pass the Chalk.

A Time Clock
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I’ve always wondered how much I work a week as a teacher. Last week, I sat down with six other teachers (at different schools, different grade levels, etc.) and asked them to track their hours worked.

Two things shocked me.

First, out of the seven teachers surveyed, we spend only 42% of our time actually delivering content to students. That other 58% of the time is devoted to conferences, miscellaneous tasks, lesson planning, meetings, PD, and tracking (in that order).

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Why Co-Teaching Is Twice the Work

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This post was originally published on TeacherPop.

For the start of Year Two, I found out I’d be co-teaching. After preening for a few minutes at my good fortune, I thought of all the time I’d be saving by having another person to shoulder the work. After all, I thought, having a second person by me every moment of teaching would cut my work in half.

AHAHAHAHA.

False.

If anything, having a co-teacher has made me work much harder than I did most days during Year One, and definitely not because my co-teacher is lazy. If anything, it’s because she is so much the opposite of that.

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