Reading and writing alongside students, author of The Power of Teaching Vulnerbaly: How Risk-Taking Transforms Student Engagement. Views are my own.
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At the middle school where @dgrock teaches, all-school assemblies shape an engaged school culture and nurtures student voices. @edutopia
All-School Meetings Give Students a Voice
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All school meetings are an important part of our school culture.
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David Rockower retweeted
Someone should write a book for kids called How to Handle Your Difficult Parents
Possible chapters: "The Behavioral Challenges of the Middle-Aged Brain," "How to Be Caring but Firm in Resisting a Controlling Parent," "When Mom or Dad's Self-Esteem Hinges on Your Accomplishments"
“What if American education turned away from rigor and towards vigor? What if we became an education system focused on creating a life-affirming, well-balanced, energetic growth trajectory for our students, teachers and schools?” gettingsmart.com/author/trac…
“Summer — the season that once stretched out over fields, mountains, and beaches — was now a hiccup, a rest-stop on the bullet train that our lives had become.”
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Hey ya'll, my student wrote this 🥰
Couldn't be prouder
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Looking for book recommendations: nonfiction sports stories (possibly a collection) geared for 6th-8th grade.
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I know it’s healthy for teenagers to want to spend more time with their peers, but it doesn’t change the fact that I’m not done parenting and I want to keep our bonds strong. @dgrock #tuesdayvibe
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Penn State Basketball! What a performance.#micahmadness
Students worked on "who I am as a writer" introductions. One of my favorite lines: "I really like writing fiction because it makes me happy."
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I often hear parents talk about all the traveling they’ll do after their kids leave home. They’re excited about the regained freedom and independence that comes with an empty nest. Right now, however, I’m feeling a sense of loss. #emptynest @dgrock
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Most ed. reforms are mostly just about making kids work harder: tougher standards! more rigor! raise the bar! Yet Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do “resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater *thoughtfulness*, not in the greater strain it imposes."
Summers for teachers: every walk, run, vacation, I think, what can I add/subtract/edit to make next year better? Would this story work? What about this technique? How about this slight shift in thinking? Students past and present, we are always thinking about you.
My teens all school year: “School is so long. I have no time to myself.”
My teens on the first day of summer break: “I’m bored.”
Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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David Rockower retweeted
#parenting There was no better time spent with my kids than when we read all those stories together. @dgrock
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