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Stina Pederson
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6 days ago
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5 Minute Freewrite: end of the hostility
Find the prompt here: Dear diary, I decided to start my post like that because I've been thinking I wanted to make these posts more like journal entries because I haven
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about 2 months ago
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Failing Systems 12 (Closing)
(I wrote this. Read the whole article at For now, Brendan and I are trying to get our kiddo's school to implement Dr. Ross Greene's "Collaborative and Proactive Solutions"…
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about 2 months ago
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Failing Systems 11
I just love that trailer. I should watch the documentary, I bet I'd love it too. I think meaning is what we make of our lives. "We engage each other in doing something," Haraway…
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about 2 months ago
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Failing Systems 10
To me, this comes back to Plato and the idea that we should all be aspiring toward some perfect Form—the idea that we must constantly be trying to be something more that what we…
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about 2 months ago
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Failing Systems 9
I don't mean to disparage Lochlan's school or his teachers. I do believe they are doing their best with the resources they have and within the educational model that has been…
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about 2 months ago
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Failing systems 8
What we learned most recently regarding bathroom usage is that if anyone in Lochlan's class needs to use the bathroom outside the prescribed times, the student that needs to go…
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about 2 months ago
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Failed Systems 7
The growing maturity that comes with age and his familiarity with the school meant that Lochlan got off to a good start in first grade. We shared his diagnoses early with his…
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about 2 months ago
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Failing Systems 6
Lochlan's outburst behaviors got worse leading up to the winter break. At one point he received a three day "in-school suspension," which meant he wasn't allowed back in his…
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about 2 months ago
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Failing systems 5
This educational model is what Alfie Kohn refers to as traditional education, or "Old School." He says, "Proponents of traditional education often complain that the model they…
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about 2 months ago
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Failing Systems 4
Another early hint was when the school held a literacy event after school one afternoon. Parents and kids went to the kid's classrooms and the teachers explained how they were…
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