Happy weekend! How was the week for you? From our experience, the four-day ones tend to be a little bizarre.
A few of us will be hanging out at the Alabama NBCT Network Conference this Saturday, so we’ll be sure to share a bit from there. Plus, our board will be meeting next week for the first time this DECADE. Can’t wait to share new things on the horizon!
In the meantime, check out these offerings from around the interwebs.
Rubrics and originality reports in Google Classroom.
Decolonizing YA speculative fiction. We’re all about some Tomi Adeyemi around here.
California considers permitting students excused mental health days. What are your thoughts on this? More systemic supports for both student and teacher mental health are badly needed.
Are you participating in the Future Voters Project?
January 27 is Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. And when we teach about horrific events in our history, it’s so important to talk about the resistance, too, not just the suffering. Plus, make connections between history and contemporary refugee crises.