Mid-week post for the week of October 19
Our Noth Poll this week
Here are two videos for you – one from the NFB on finding peace during a pandemic and second, a very serious video on a beaver in captivity eating cabbage.
Here is a copy of the slides we used yesterday
and… here is the place to add the url for your Digital Hub and Practicum folder
Here are the Coggles that we were able to see – if you don’t see yours, you can send them to us when they are public – good for you for participating!!
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Videos for you this week
OCT Presentation
Principals Panel
Video recording of highlights from our Oct 20 class
Quotations from one of our readings for this week – Achieving Excellence: Weaving together
Student Achievement, Equity, and Well-Being
In Conversation with Kahontakwas Diane Longboat, Nouman Ashraf, and Carl James
the critical piece for educators is this: know that
when that child walks into the classroom you are
dealing with a human being who has an incredible
wealth of family life history. It is experience that
originates in their cultures, their languages, their
faith traditions, their families, and their communities.
I call it cultural capital.
Conversation with Kahontakwas Diane Longboat
To me, diversity is a fact of the human experience.
The question is not, “What do we think about
diversity?” The question is, “What are we doing
with it? Are we simply tolerating it?” If that’s the
case, we are certainly setting the bar far too low.
“Are we engaging it in a way that actually allows
for people to feel valued? Are we leveraging it,
so we actually find ways in which we would learn
from each other and about each other and through
each other?”Conversation with Nouman Ashraf
In the classroom, as I always say, you need to know the student who is sitting in front of you. What I mean by this is knowing students, not as we imagine them to be because of the construct we have from the media or from things we’ve read or observed, or who they truly are. This involves making the effort to truly understand students – through observation, through conversations, through learning about their experiences and identities, and by understanding their perspectives. It also means recognizing that students come to us from parents and caregivers, from a community, from significant others who have influenced their ideas. When we interact with students, we interact with all these things. Of course, we will get to know students through their work, their assignments and so on, but we will only understand our students fully by committing to getting to know them as unique individuals.
Conversation with Dr. Carl James
