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“Teachers change brains.” Martha Burns (Northwestern University) in “I’m a Neuroscientist. Here’s How Teachers Change Kids’ Brains” in EdSurge News, February 19, 2019, https://bit.ly/2DUFSJG;
“Laughter relieves stress and boredom, boosts engagement and well-being, and spurs not only creativity and collaboration, but also analytic precision and productivity.” Alison Beard
“When we go into a classroom with a preconceived notion of what instruction should look like, we often miss really fantastic teaching going on. It’s not about the practices as much as it’s about how those practices help students learn. I’ve seen teachers do everything ‘right’ and students are still disengaged or confused. Focus on the students. What are they doing? How are they learning?” Robyn Jackson in “Turn and Talk” in Educational Leadership, March 2019 (Vol. 76, #6, p. 10-11), https://bit.ly/2Ewa4et
“Telling people what we think of their performance doesn’t help them thrive and excel, and telling people how we think they should improve actually hinders learning.” Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall
“Maybe sucking it up is a valuable ‘social and emotional’ skill.” Michael Petrilli in “Is a ‘Good Enough’ School Good Enough for My Kids?” in The Education Gadfly, February 27, 2019, https://bit.ly/2GZHi9N
“Who was the first woman in your family to vote?” A question for students studying women’s suffrage in the U.S. on its 100th anniversary, from Women Leading the Way, a national research, art, and storytelling project, quoted in “Family Herstory” in Independent School, Spring 2019 (Vol. 78, #3, p. 18), no e-link
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