The Educator's Notebook

8 Lessons From Gallup’s 2016 Student Poll
Gallup - 5/25/17

“3. Many students have a best friend at school, but few get to do what they do best every day. 4. Getting to do what they do best drives high school students' perception of success at school.”
Data Scientist Writes On How To Be Both Data Driven And Creative
Medium - 5/23/17

"The idea here is that we should use data as information, not as insight. Put another way, it’s not about the ingredients, it’s about the cook.”

How One School Is Creating An E-Portfolio System
EdSurge - 5/23/17
Can We Better Define “Competency Based Education”?
EdSurge - 5/22/17

"“When we say CBE, we’re typically refer to three different things,” says Fisher: philosophy, policy and practice. There are debates within each of those lenses—and aligning all three may well be impossible.”
William Sanders, 74, Creator Of Value-Added Teacher Measures
New York Times - 5/19/17

Understanding Lying: Why People Do It, How Skill At It Develops
National Geographic - 6/1/17

"What drives this increase in lying sophistication is the development of a child’s ability to put himself or herself in someone else’s shoes. Known as theory of mind, this is the facility we acquire for understanding the beliefs, intentions, and knowledge of others. Also fundamental to lying is the brain’s executive function: the abilities required for planning, attention, and self-control. The two-year-olds who lied in Lee’s experiments performed better on tests of theory of mind and executive function than those who didn’t.”
Happiness Comes From Recognizing What You Can Control
Aeon - 5/22/17

"Once you begin paying attention, the dichotomy of control has countless applications to everyday life, and all of them have to do with one crucial move: shifting your goals from external outcomes to internal achievements.”
20 Ways To Build Resilience
Hey Sigmund - 8/12/16

Why New Orleans Removed Four Confederate Monuments [Video]
Mitch Landrieu - 5/19/17

"Think about all the people who have left New Orleans because of our exclusionary attitudes. Another friend asked me to consider these four monuments from the perspective of an African American mother or father trying to explain to their fifth grade daughter who Robert E. Lee is and why he stands atop of our beautiful city.”

Language, Lies, Politics, And Meaning (Orwell Redux)
New York Review of Books - 5/13/17

"Using words to lie destroys language. Using words to cover up lies, however subtly, destroys language. Validating incomprehensible drivel with polite reaction also destroys language. This isn’t merely a question of the prestige of the writing art or the credibility of the journalistic trade: it is about the basic survival of the public sphere.”

Put Down Your Phone, Experience More Beauty In The World
Artsy - 5/26/17
How Is EdX Doing?
Chronicle of Higher Education - 5/26/17
Valets: En Route To Being Replaced By Robots
Mic - 5/24/17
What Do Facebook’s Censorship Standards Mean For Discourse?
Guardian - 5/21/17

"The Guardian has seen more than 100 internal training manuals, spreadsheets and flowcharts that give unprecedented insight into the blueprints Facebook has used to moderate issues such as violence, hate speech, terrorism, pornography, racism and self-harm.”

A Long Meditation On The Casualification Of Office Dress
First Things - 6/1/17

"At the end of the twentieth century, dress underwent another great change; call it the “Tailored Renunciation” or the “Casual Revolution.” Underlying it is not the triumph of one class but rather the loss among all classes of a sense of occasion. By “occasion” I mean an event out of the ordinary, a function other than our daily lives, an experience for which we take special care and preparation, at which we act and speak and comport ourselves differently—events which could be called ritualistic in matters of propriety and appearance… It can now be said that this sort of an outward sign or almost any of the older outward signs of ritual are considered pure snobbery.”

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