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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools: June 2013
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools. Kid-Friendly schools are schools that put kids and their needs first. Friday, June 28, 2013. From a comment by Chris on his blog, A Blog About School. FedUpMom - I hear you. It's easy to imagine some aspects of "student-centered" education (for example, some efforts at "project-based learning") being an utter waste of students' time. In my opinion, it's easy to imagine aspects of old-fashioned ("sage on the stage"? Education being a total waste of time, too. The PREP c...
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools: July 2013
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools. Kid-Friendly schools are schools that put kids and their needs first. Sunday, July 28, 2013. An Imperial Moth, hanging out on the screen of our kitchen window. Links to this post. Friday, July 26, 2013. Skip Counting vs. the Times Tables. Links to this post. Tuesday, July 23, 2013. This summer, I'm determined to teach Younger Daughter the times tables. To that end, I downloaded a bunch of Schoolhouse Rocks multiplication songs. And made a CD to play in the car. In the ...
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ICCSD Board Public Comment Issue Continues (or How to Misguidedly Transform the Public Comment Period into a More Positive Environment Devoid of Criticism on Hot Issues) | Mary Murphy
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Lots of Kids Left Behind–Especially the Talented Ones. Show Me The Donors School Board Candidates (and how much they donated) →. ICCSD Board Public Comment Issue Continues (or How to Misguidedly Transform the Public Comment Period into a More Positive Environment Devoid of Criticism on Hot Issues). June 23, 2015. 1) the speaker time changes from three to four minutes resulting in fewer speakers being able to speak thanks to the newly proposed hour time limit for public comment prior to any board votes,.
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools: November 2014
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools. Kid-Friendly schools are schools that put kids and their needs first. Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Troubling Reading for Troubled Kids. Depressed people are commonly advised to avoid "ruminating", or chewing over depressive thoughts. I think this is good advice. In an ideal world OD should be avoiding depressing reading, but that's just not possible when she's going to high school. Why is high school English reading such a downer? 2) Since teenagers are often troubled, ...
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools: April 2014
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools. Kid-Friendly schools are schools that put kids and their needs first. Sunday, April 20, 2014. I decided on chocolate icing for this year's lamb cake. There's a long tradition of cigarette-smoking lamb cakes, and some controversy over their meaning. My favorite explanation is that smoking is one of those luxuries you might have given up for Lent; once Easter comes, Lent is over, and everybody can light up again, even the lamb! Links to this post. Monday, April 14, 2014.
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools: Opting Out
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools. Kid-Friendly schools are schools that put kids and their needs first. Tuesday, April 7, 2015. This year, for the first time, we are opting Younger Daughter out of standardized testing. In previous years, she didn't want to be singled out as different from the other kids, so she went ahead and did the tests. This year, there's been enough of a groundswell that she knows other kids who are opting out, so she's ready to join them. May 1, 2015 at 4:32 PM. Deborah L. Ruf.
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools: January 2015
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools. Kid-Friendly schools are schools that put kids and their needs first. Monday, January 26, 2015. I Wish This was the Last. I wish this was the last post I would ever write about homework problems, but I doubt it is. The latest wrinkle is that YD is being assigned ridiculous spelling and "language arts" homework, but is determined not to let us complain to her teacher, because "he might be mean to me! And also because "I want to be a normal kid! Links to this post. Billi...
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools: April 2015
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools. Kid-Friendly schools are schools that put kids and their needs first. Tuesday, April 7, 2015. This year, for the first time, we are opting Younger Daughter out of standardized testing. In previous years, she didn't want to be singled out as different from the other kids, so she went ahead and did the tests. This year, there's been enough of a groundswell that she knows other kids who are opting out, so she's ready to join them. Links to this post. Deborah L. Ruf.
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools: October 2014
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools. Kid-Friendly schools are schools that put kids and their needs first. Friday, October 10, 2014. Recently I've been re-reading some favorite books from my childhood, including Rascal. By Sterling North. It's a nostalgic story of the author as an 11-year-old boy and his pet raccoon that he raised from a cub. And paddles the canoe along the local streams. Links to this post. Friday, October 3, 2014. Real Teachers, Real Subjects. The resulting shambles has no reliable effe...
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Stop Homework » Moms (and Dads) on a Mission
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Stop Homework a resource created by Sara Bennett, co-author of The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It. Archive for Moms (and Dads) on a Mission. The Toronto Homework Policy After Two Years: One Parent’s Perspective (part 2). Be sure to read yesterday’s post. Before reading today’s, which is Part 2. The Toronto Homework Policy After Two Years:. One Parent’s Perspective. Grade 4 French Immersion. Read the rest of this entry ». Moms (and Dads) on a Mission.
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