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Joined June 2009
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HAPPY #OPENINGDAY! HAPPY #OPENINGDAY! HAPPY #OPENINGDAY! HAPPY #OPENINGDAY! HAPPY #OPENINGDAY! HAPPY #OPENINGDAY! HAPPY #OPENINGDAY! HAPPY #OPENINGDAY! HAPPY #OPENINGDAY! HAPPY #OPENINGDAY! HAPPY #OPENINGDAY! HAPPY #OPENINGDAY! HAPPY #OPENINGDAY! HAPPY #OPENINGDAY!
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Since a lot of my new followers are teachers 🖤🖤
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Nothing to see here. Only a seagull riding another seagull, mid-flight nitter.gq/creepy_org/status/1639…
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Free Bird 🦅🎸 @Skynyrd #lynyrdskynyrd #freebird #funkanometry #dance #guitarsolo • WE DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THIS SONG *no copyright infringement intended, for artistic purposes only*
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Are you a feminist?
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Replying to @gthielmann @bctf
The result – one of the highest dues for a public sector union in Canada. The fee used to be set at 1.59% of member salary, but was "temporarily" raised (up to 1.79%) to deal with emerging issues, with a commitment to bring it back down eventually. To date, this has not happened.
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7/7 Want more details? Track down the 5-vol. series "Adventure in American Educ.," each by a different author, esp. vol. 1 (W. Aiken, "The Story of the 8 Year Study") & vol. 4 (D. Chamberlin et al., "Did They Succeed in College?"). Also see this summary: is.gd/xYGBJ6
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6/7 Many factors can explain why these remarkable findings were largely ignored and high schools are still so traditional today. But now we know that it's not because students need, or even benefit from, those traditional practices in order to succeed in college...
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5/7 And here's the kicker: "The further a school departed from the traditional college preparation program, the better was the record of its graduates"...
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4/7 The result: experimental students did just as well at college, and often better, on all counts - grades, extracurricular participation, and lower drop-out rates, as well as on measures such as intellectual curiosity and resourcefulness....
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3/7 Hundreds of colleges agreed to set aside their usual admissions requirements so that students from these progressive programs wouldn't be penalized. Over several years, more than 1500 students were then compared to carefully matched students from conventional schools...
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2/7 In place of grade-driven, teacher-controlled, fact-based instruction, the learning was interdisciplinary, conceptual, experiential, collaborative, often ungraded, and fashioned jointly by teachers and students...
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1/7 As the years go by, fewer educators hear about one of the most important research findings of the 20th century, known as the Eight-Year Study. Back in the '30s, 30 high schools around the U.S. turned traditional practice on its head, especially for college-bound students...
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I'm at city hall. the council chamber has been cleared twice for people disruptions, but this time many haven't left, and neither have most media. here a sample of what people are saying:
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Thanks to the generosity of others who have shared thinking tasks, I've been able to catalogue what's been shared and what I've accumulated over time. I've added the link below to give access. #mtbos @KirstDy @NolanFossum @pearse_margie @Sneffleupagus drive.google.com/drive/folde…
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Come on @bctf! I’ve complained about this before. How much money is this costing members? What a waste! It’s online right?!
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