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Friday, December 23, 2022

Reading Around: Recommended by Pullman

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I wrote this a long time ago, so long ago I think I tried to have it printed in the college magazine. As I start to work again on study mate...

Light and Dark: Splintered Light by Verlyn Flieger and Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

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We all know the ways of ideas. How sometimes a good idea will come to mind just after we needed it, ex post facto and extraneous. Sometimes ...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

The Teacher Trap

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 That is, if we take the Parent in Nate Hilger's title to be a noun rather than a verb; otherwise, it's the teach (v) trap we're...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Thoughtful Dad Podcast

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 Quick note: Joe and I started working on a new series on being a dad :)
Thursday, August 18, 2022

The Japanese present and future tense: How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino

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How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino, is a lovely book, to be read alongside Platero y yo  and  Le Petit Prince  as soon as possible. Only,...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

In Place of Lesson Planning: Letters By a Modern Mystic, by Frank Laubach, and The Ignorant Schoolmaster, by Jacques Ranciere

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Finding convergences between two books as different as  Letters By a Modern Mystic , by Frank Laubach , and The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five ...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Equity and Excellence, Historicized: Cultivating Genius, by Gholdy Muhammad

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Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy, by Gholdy Muhammad , arrives with the force of ...