Professional Development: Collaboratively Prototyping Science Classroom Tasks
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We self-organized a professional development experience to increase our skills in integrating engineering design and computational thinking tasks into our physics classrooms.
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2018
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Transforming Collaborative Culture through Vulnerable Acts of Everyday Leadership
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When my school colleagues and I started sharing our vulnerable moments, our departmental culture transformed.
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2018
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From Public School to Homeschool
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Experiences in my previous teaching position inform and strengthen my current work as a homeschooling parent.
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2018
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Difficult Conversations in Support of LGBTQ+ Students
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Difficult, uncomfortable conversations improved school culture for LBGTQ+ youth after our newly-developed gay-straight alliance faced community opposition.
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2018
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Call and Response: New Ideas for Your Teaching
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This past summer, we asked teachers in the Knowles community to tell us: “What’s one thing you are going to try differently in your teaching this upcoming year?” Here are their responses.
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2018
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From the Editors’ Desk: What is “Normal?”
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Reconsidering our ideas of what teaching “should be” and what it can be.
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2018
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Now on Teacher Voice: Process, Process, Process
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In this episode of Teacher Voice: The Podcast, Knowles Fellows discuss the crucial nature of collaborators in writing impactful stories. Join Kaleidoscope staff members as they explore the impact of a published article and discuss how writing can be an act of leadership.
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2018
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Progressing Towards Mastery: Reflections on Implementing a Proficiency-Based Grading System
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How would implementing proficiency-based grading shift our teaching practice?
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2018
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The “Invisible Knapsack”: Rip it open. Spend it down.
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I used to think of my whiteness as a burden. Now I realize it is an account that I can cash in to weaken systems of unearned power in my classroom and beyond.
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2018
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Summits and Valleys
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Connecting my first backpacking experience to the summits and valleys of my beginning years of teaching.
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2018
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