The Educator's Notebook

“Jill Biden Is a Teacher. And She’s Not About to Change That.”
New York Times - 12/11/20

“Come January, when her husband’s job title changes, hers will stay the same: Unlike every other first lady in American history, she has said she will keep her full-time job. “I’m going to continue to teach,” she said in an interview on “CBS Sunday Morning” in August. “It’s important — I want people to value teachers.””
“How Friends Influence One Another — For Better Or Worse — In High School”
KQED - 12/10/20

“By the time students reach high school, friendships become more stable. “In middle school, it’s unusual for an individual to maintain the same group of close friends over the space of 18 months,” says B. Bradford Brown, an educational psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: “In high school, that is no longer the case.” Likely because individual identities are more solidified, older teens tolerate greater dissimilarity in one another. As a result, compromise and collaboration increasingly take the place of conformity.”

A Top 20 African Books List For 2020
African Arguments - 12/10/20
A Curmudgeonly Argument For The Humanities
Justin E. H. Smith - 12/5/20

“Here is why I actually think humanistic inquiry should be defended: because it elevates the human spirit. Nothing is interesting or uninteresting in itself in a pre-given way. What is of interest in studying a humanistic object is not only the object, but the character of the relation that emerges between that object and oneself. What emerges from humanistic inquiry is thus best understood as an I-Thou relation, rather than an I-It relation.”

“8 Superpowers Of Highly Successful Teams”
Fast Company - 12/12/20
Elon Musk: Stop Wasting Time In Meetings, Focus On What You Make
Wall Street Journal - 12/8/20

“Spend less time on finance, spend less time in conference rooms, less time on PowerPoint and more time just trying to make your product as amazing as possible.”

Fauci On A Timeline For Returning To Normal
Harvard Gazette - 12/10/20

““Let’s say we get 75 percent, 80 percent of the population vaccinated,” Fauci said. “If we do that, if we do it efficiently enough over the second quarter of 2021, by the time we get to the end of the summer, i.e., the third quarter, we may actually have enough herd immunity protecting our society that as we get to the end of 2021, we can approach very much some degree of normality that is close to where we were before.””
How To Make A LEGO Zoom Avatar
Twitter - 11/12/20

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