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ceci n'est pas une bannière

ceci n'est pas une bannière

#StreetFurniture #Recursion #Torino

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If I had to choose an admittedly bad precedent to set, I would rather set the precedent of prosecuti...

If I had to choose an admittedly bad precedent to set, I would rather set the precedent of prosecuting former presidents than of presidents being above the law.

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"Garbage Time" in the Classroom

Over a decade as a teacher has taught me the importance of "garbage time" in the classroom. As a new teacher I would plan things within an inch of their lives. If I fell behind schedule, I felt I had failed as a teacher. If we got off track with an off-the-cuff personal conversation, I felt like I wasn't doing "bell-to-bell teaching" (I most certainly was), and so I tried to avoid it.

Later I learned that those impromptu, unplanned, personal moments were what my students remembered above all the vocabulary and grammar lessons they had dutifully sat through. That's how they remembered me as a teacher, and that's how they knew they were cared about. There were other results:

• As they became convinced I cared about them, their resiliency to try hard things improved.
• When they knew I trusted them, they trusted and respected me more and classroom management became easier. They felt like I was in their side.
• Impromptu, unscripted convos revealed valuable information about the students I would have learned in no other way.
• I also learned valuable information about the school culture as experienced by the students. More often than not, that turns into actionable information among the faculty and admin.

So now I actually work in garbage time to my lessons for the week. I don't know exactly when they'll come up or what form it will take, but I don't want to cream so many curricular activities into the lesson that there's nothing left for garbage time.
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*Reporters Without Borders raises concern over the disappearance of Palestinian #journalist Bayan Ab...

Reporters Without Borders raises concern over the disappearance of Palestinian #journalist Bayan Abusultan, who was last seen on 19/3 among those sequestered in the Israeli raid on al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza.

The last tweet Bayan posted was witnessing the killing of her brother by Israeli forces in front of her eyes.

#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
@palestine group @israel group

Knights of Dust and Neon

Oh hey, lots more Cypher System coming tomorrow. #ttrpg #Cyphersystem
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