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“Teaching students to meditate will help manage their anger or frustration, but it won’t remove a system that mass incarcerates their neighbors and family members. Giving students skills in socioemotional learning can help students better process and express their opinions, but it won’t erase a system that was built not only to their disadvantage, but also sometimes actively set up to see them fail. Yoga can help a child feel present in their body, but it won’t change the fact that our society places different values on different bodies.” Christina Torres in “Mindfulness Won’t Save Us. Fixing the System Will” in Education Update, May 2019 (Vol.61,#5), https://bit.ly/2VSZp8v
“Everything works somewhere. Nothing works everywhere,” Dylan Wiliam
“School librarians must engage the skills of both educator and information professional, wearing two identities like a pair of skis as they navigate the slopes of information use and instruction.” Kathy Cromartie and Elizabeth Burns
“Finding out you and a difficult student share the same birthday, favorite basketball team, or comic hero may increase the student’s motivation and cause the student to adopt your goals. Similarly, by creating a shared purpose, educators can bring divergent groups of students together for the greater good.” Dustin Bindreiff in “Repairing Cultural Trust in Racially Charged Times,” Principal Leadership, May 2019 (Vol. 19, #9, p. 12-15); Bindreiff is at dbindreiff@nevco.org.
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