by anna | Sep 5, 2014 | engagement, family, learning
I’ve been thinking a good deal about Social Media and Education again lately… Here’s what has me thinking….I saw this on facebook again today: I just saw the facebook post referenced in the blog post below… again…. not the first...
by anna | Jun 6, 2014 | education, engagement, family, Uncategorized
I have a Book Girl. Here friends are Book Girls, the read together, they talk about books together. Endlessly. I’m going to see The Fault In Our Stars this evening with a gaggle of book girls. ( I think that gaggle is the correct term for a plural amount of Book...
by anna | Dec 15, 2013 | family, thoughts
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/what-kids-learn-from-hearing-family-stories/282075/ Be generous with your stories…. This article shares more about research over the last past decade or so that really exposes the deep internal values...
by anna | Sep 7, 2013 | engagement, family, learning
And guess which population knows how to ask teachers questions to get the answers they need? Middle class students. Why? They are aware that negotiating with their teachers gets them access to what they need. A new study from right here in Indiana shows this...
by anna | Sep 5, 2013 | family
Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist who writes about human behavior and public policy. For Time Magazine and the Atlantic, she has chronicled the stories of American kids and teachers alongside groundbreaking new research into education reform. “Kids...
by anna | Aug 29, 2013 | engagement, family
“Shame is really easily understood as the fear of disconnection…Is there something about me, that if other people know it or see it, that I won’t be worthy of connection? The things I can tell you about it is, that it’s universal, we all...
