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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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The 72-Hour Window: What Rural Texans Need to Know Before the March 11 Voucher Hearing

An update on Texas’s $1 billion voucher plan as Tuesday’s hearing approaches: New data confirms rural Panhandle schools face…

Mar 8

The crumbling brick remains of a building with two window outlines, two visible chimneys, and a missing roof framed between two small barren trees behind a barbed wire fence and in the middle of waist-high dead grass

Mar 8

When There’s No Choice: What Vouchers Really Mean for Rural Schools

Austin politicians are offering rural families a devil’s bargain: $2,000 to homeschool or watch their public schools slowly die. But with…

Feb 23

Two young girls, about age 7, one white with blonde hair and glasses, and one brown-skinned with dark hair in a pony tail, work together to build a tower using Lego bricks

Feb 23

A Prayer for 2025: Invoking the Power of Small Awakenings

Jan 20

Jan 20

What Happens in the Dark: A Journey Through Education’s Digital Zoo

As screens reshape our classrooms, one question haunts schools: What are we losing in the name of optimization?

Dec 24, 2024

Dec 24, 2024

What is School For? Finding Better Answers in a Fragile Time

Democracy lives or dies in empty classrooms

Dec 8, 2024

A classroom full of Syrian students, with several children visible in the foreground and others in rows behind them. In the center, a student raises their hand while another student in a blue and black striped sweater looks to the side. The students sit at wooden desks with workbooks open in front of them. The classroom has plain white walls and natural lighting coming from above. The children appear engaged and attentive, dressed in casual clothing including striped sweaters and solid-colored s

Dec 8, 2024

The New Reality: Teaching Truth in an Era of Manufactured Doubt

Two decades after the phrase ‘reality-based community’ emerged as a slur, teaching truth has become an act of resistance. Here’s what…

Dec 2, 2024

A university classroom seen through shattered glass, digital static and binary code where windows and whiteboards would be

Dec 2, 2024

Who Will Protect Our Students When the Department of Education Is Gone?

Civil rights protections aren’t bureaucratic red tape — they’re lifelines for our most vulnerable students

Nov 13, 2024

An ethereal educational scene where a small child’s hand reaches up toward a luminous protective dome. The dome is artistically crafted from overlapping books, diplomas, and educational symbols glowing with warm golden light that breaks through dark storm clouds above.

Nov 13, 2024

Finding Our Way Forward Together, A Path Through Uncertain Times

In times of profound upheaval, we often turn to our spiritual communities not just for comfort, but for wisdom in navigating what feels…

Nov 7, 2024

Finding Our Way Forward Together, A Path Through Uncertain Times

Nov 7, 2024

I’m Tired of Performances, I’d Rather Have Partnerships

About a week before I’m asked to speak, I hope my audiences start thinking. Not about me — about their own experiences, insights, and…

Oct 22, 2024

I’m Tired of Performances, I’d Rather Have Partnerships

Oct 22, 2024

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ChatGPT: A Tool for Empowerment or Oppression?

How Artificial Intelligence can be used to promote or undermine equity in education.

Jun 15, 2023

a group of children sits at a desk in front of a robot teacher. robots wait behind the robot teacher and are hooked to it with many wires

Jun 15, 2023

Shanna Peeples

Shanna Peeples

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Ed. Professor | Harvard Ed.L.D. | 2015 National Teacher of the Year | www.drshannapeeples.com

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