Archive for June 2014
Context Matters
From the desk of Alice… Somewhere along the way I read about research that showed people can dramatically change their actions based on context. I think the particular study I was reading about had to do with prisons and I came across another one that looked at the influence your highschool friends have on your…
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From the desk of Alice… After writing about the way my own children have fallen in love with learning, I started wondering about the teachers who are nurturing this along. Given all the demands of the current classroom, how are they sorting through the ideas and requirements to keep the student in mind? …
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From the desk of Alice… My twins are wrapping up their kindergarten year at a public magnet school in downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They are in different classrooms (by my choice) and this has afforded me the opportunity to see things from multiple perspectives despite a similar context. When I have talked to them…
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