“The biggest risk with making your class fun is your students are more likely to be engaged and get on your side.”
― Play Like a Pirate: Engage Students with Toys, Games, and Comics
― Play Like a Pirate: Engage Students with Toys, Games, and Comics
“how humans and human life are understood, valued, and treated are critical indicators of a culture’s health.”
― A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today's World
― A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today's World
“It isn’t the grade but the conversation that communicates the learning”
― Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School
― Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School
“The FBI’s 2018 data on homicides clearly shows that blacks do not need to be protected from white police officers—they need to be protected from themselves. Of the 2,925 blacks who were killed in 2018, 2,600 of their murderers were other blacks; only 234 were white. I need not point out the fact that even if those 234 white-on-black homicides were all committed by cops (they were not), blacks are still 11 times more likely to be killed by someone within their own community”
― Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
― Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
“All learning is subjective, and when we only offer one chance or route for learning, we greatly limit the possibility that every student will achieve mastery”
― Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School
― Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School
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