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Think Like Socrates: Using Questions to Invite Wonder and Empathy Into the Classroom, Grades 4-12
Think Like Socrates: Using Questions to Invite Wonder and Empathy Into the Classroom, Grades 4-12

How to encourage the intellectual power inside everyone by using questions to build an community of inquiry.

2018

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Shanna Peeples
Shanna Peeples

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𝐀𝐈 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐬.𝐢𝐨

·Jun 15

ChatGPT: A Tool for Empowerment or Oppression?

How Artificial Intelligence can be used to promote or undermine equity in education. — A drawback of leaving public schools for higher education is that I’ve lost the ability to test my assumptions about teaching and learning. …

AI

7 min read

ChatGPT: A Tool for Empowerment or Oppression?
ChatGPT: A Tool for Empowerment or Oppression?
AI

7 min read


Mar 29

I think the comparison to the Jews under Hitler is apt.
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Ann Williams

Thank you for your thoughtful response, Ann.

Thank you for your thoughtful response, Ann. Like you, I'm increasingly horrified by the speed and precision of these coordinated attacks on trans folks. …

2 min read

2 min read


Mar 26

Keeping Those Sparkly Dresses Off the Boys in Texas

How canceling a student drag show highlights fundamental questions of human rights — As a professor of leadership, I find myself living inside an unfolding case study at my university. The repercussions of our President’s unilateral decision to cancel a student-organized drag fundraiser for the nonprofit Trevor Project continue reverberating under every meeting and conversation. The wording of his email sent to all…

Higher Education

6 min read

Keeping Those Sparkly Dresses Off the Boys in Texas
Keeping Those Sparkly Dresses Off the Boys in Texas
Higher Education

6 min read


Mar 26

Never Quite Good Enough

The Impostor Phenomenon And Its Effects My father, like a boozy Old Testament patriarch, pronounced what he believed were blessings upon my sisters and me. We were complaining about something one afternoon in our tiny Texas town, the smell of sulfur and oily rags from chemicals at the refinery making…

Perfectionism

4 min read

Never Quite Good Enough
Never Quite Good Enough
Perfectionism

4 min read


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Curious

·Aug 16, 2020

Driving With a Drunk During the Apocalypse

There really is no panic quite like the panic of being belted into the backseat of a speeding, swerving car with a confident drunk at the wheel. First, the sense of denial: “we’re not that far from home and we’ve made it there before.” …

Politics

4 min read

Driving With a Drunk During the Apocalypse
Driving With a Drunk During the Apocalypse
Politics

4 min read


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Mind Cafe

·Dec 11, 2019

You Don’t See What’s Wrong With You, But Everyone Else Does

Feedback matters: Specific, actionable strategies for collecting it in a way that’s helpful and not traumatizing. — The title of this post is a paraphrase of a line from Season 4 of Mad Men where Don Draper listens as his niece tells him a version of the words above, but he doesn’t really hear her. …

Leadership

6 min read

You Don’t See What’s Wrong With You, But Everyone Else Does
You Don’t See What’s Wrong With You, But Everyone Else Does
Leadership

6 min read


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The Startup

·Dec 8, 2019

On Waiting For A Sign

Indecision and loneliness are the only two things I can be sure are there for me. — The rent for all the anxiety that lives in my head is cheap, but I have to pay by the hour. Writing looks like work and it entertains the noonday demon well enough that it retreats for a while. And so. I am in this small room in this big…

Self

4 min read

On Waiting For A Sign
On Waiting For A Sign
Self

4 min read


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The Startup

·Oct 21, 2019

Anxiety Is a Superpower

Anxiety made me who I am. It’s made me empathetic to others because anxious people learn to quickly scan faces and body language, to read emotions. — You can’t see it on my face, but I’m almost barking with panic in the photo at the top of this piece. And not just because I was on a stage in front of hundreds of people who I was sure would soon walk out. The other reason I’m terrified…

Mental Health

7 min read

Anxiety Is a Superpower
Anxiety Is a Superpower
Mental Health

7 min read


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GEN

·Sep 16, 2019

The Importance of an Out Teacher for LGBTQ Youth

Having an out teacher can significantly affect the school experience for LGBTQ students, yet there are few protections for queer teachers brave enough to be out — “Well, they can’t fire me now.” That was my first thought upon being selected as the 2015 National Teacher of the Year. …

LGBTQ

4 min read

The Importance of an Out Teacher for LGBTQ Youth
The Importance of an Out Teacher for LGBTQ Youth
LGBTQ

4 min read


May 5, 2019

Who Gets To Tell Your Story?

My instinct to find and finesse emotion began when I was a student journalist and later perfected as a working reporter/features writer. Front pages, if you wanted them, were built out of gore: if it bleeds, it leads. …

Education

6 min read

Who Gets To Tell Your Story?
Who Gets To Tell Your Story?
Education

6 min read

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