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This is becoming an essential read in many education spaces, and it should be. I started reading it…last summer, I think? Then I took a year-long training for which this was the main text, but we only read chunks of it. So now I‘ve filled in the gaps, reading what I missed and rereading my highlights. Hugely enlightening, helping me better understand the brain and learning in ways that affect my non-work life, too (including parenting). ❤️

I finished my April #bookspin pick this month! Excellent choice for an all-school staff read.

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In service begins next week. So much has happened this year. It feels as if all the issues that have been pushed away, buried, and ignored have risen up and come forth to say: Look At Me! Deal with Me! Enough is Enough Already! I‘ve been doing a lot of listening, and reflecting this summer. I hope to help my students recognize the systemic briar patch so many adults- past and present- have created. If we know it we can take it apart.

I'm still working (from home) and don't have a ton of extra time freed up for reading, although I'm trying to spend what would normally be my commute doing something productive. Remembered I had bought this book in the fall and never got a chance to read it. Now is as good a time as any to start! I teach in an alternative program with many Low German speaking families, so I think this will be particularly relevant.

Very necessary words for troubling times, from Dr. #AtulGawande. #Truth

So much useful information and food for thought in this interview with Zaretta Hammond: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2015/07/cultur... (image from the source)

For educators on here: I just finished reading this, as the ideas in the book are informing our focus for this year. It's so awesome. For anyone who really wants to be pushed in their thinking about how to support all students, this is a must read!