What Is the Next Step in a Retired Educator's Journey? Edjacent!
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Doug Wren
- Jul 27
Report Reveals the Sorry State of Public School Instruction
Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash Findings from research conducted jointly by the RAND Corporation and the Center on Reinventing Public...
Melissa Smith
- Jul 16
Prioritizing Sidelined Narratives: Reshaping Education for Equity and Inclusion
Photo by Maheima Kapur on Unsplash Have you ever questioned the content of your textbooks or the narratives shared in classrooms? Did you...
Sebrina Lindsay-Law
- Jan 22
Moving Towards My Intentions for Transformation
For about ten years now, I would select a personal word to guide my experience for the upcoming year. Before I started selecting a...
Meghan Raftery
- Jan 15
Least Restrictive Environment
I kept a digital journal in college in the days before blogs. Upon graduation, I printed the journal pages and put them in a binder along...
Sebrina Lindsay-Law & Meghan Raftery
- Dec 1, 2022
Who Owns Edjacent?
Some people believe that Meghan Raftery not only owns Edjacent, but that she actually is Edjacent. But Edjacent is much larger than just...
Sebrina Lindsay-Law
- Nov 20, 2022
Alignment: Words and Deeds
Have you ever been in a meeting and facilitators ask for suggestions? Then suggestions are shared around the room through a protocol or...
Sebrina Lindsay-Law
- Nov 9, 2022
Time Is on My Side, Yes It Is!
Two years ago, I purchased an instant pot as a household Christmas gift. We used it several times to expedite cooking healthy meals. The...
Sheila Wilson
- Aug 14, 2022
Confronting Implicit Bias: How Are We Showing Up For ALL Students?
What do you see when you look at your students? It should come as no surprise that perception dictates the way we see and interact with...
Katie Niehoff
- Aug 3, 2022
Family Project-Based Learning
On August 10th, my youngest son will turn seven. We will celebrate his birthday the same way we have every year since his first birthday:...
Frances Knight Thompson
- Jul 26, 2022
Civility Through The Lens Of Race – Courageous And Compassionate Conversations
We move through the world differently from one another. The generational and historical treatment of Black people in our country, since...
LouAnne Metzger
- Mar 7, 2022
How Can Our Instruction and Classroom Environment Support the Humanity of Everyone?
As a retired principal and still practicing educator who isn’t finished learning, growing, teaching, and leading, I feel fortunate to...
Meghan Raftery
- Nov 16, 2021
The Self-Authoring Educator in VASCD Journal
Edjacent Assistant Chief Design Officer Mark Diacopoulos and I are the proud authors of an article called "The Self-Authoring Educator:...
Meghan Raftery
- Oct 1, 2021
Intercultural Competence: A Journey, Not a Destination
If you’ve been around Edjacent for a while (before it even had a name), you may recall a blog post I wrote in June 2020 called You Should...
Doug Wren
- Sep 22, 2021
Data Literacy MUST Be Taught in Public Schools
“Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.” This statement, often...
Doug Wren
- Aug 29, 2021
K-12 Testing: To Infinity and Beyond Reason (Part Two)
Welcome back, gentle readers. In the previous installment of this two-part blog series, I described how the bipartisan No Child Left...
Annette Conley
- Jul 27, 2021
Making Sense of the Science of Reading
Look! Up at the School! Is it balanced literacy? Is it Whole Language? No, it’s the Science of Reading! Whether you are a beginning...
Doug Wren
- Nov 19, 2020
On the Matter of What Matters in Public Education
My original plan for this post was to focus exclusively on how teachers can assess deeper learning. But that changed. Before writing a...
Meghan Raftery
- Sep 19, 2020
Lessons From the Other Side of the Screen
After just over a month of online coaching and two weeks of monitoring my own sons’ remote learning, I feel like most parents and...
Meghan Raftery
- Sep 13, 2020
What to Expect When You Have a Middle Schooler
Edjacent note: This post was written by a guest author who teaches sixth grade in a school that includes both elementary and middle...
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