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Flip Your Back-to-School Night

Catlin Tucker

So, three years ago I began flipping my Back-to-School Night presentation in the hopes of reaching more of my parents. This is how I flip my Back-to-School Night. Quick Introduction – My Teaching Philosophy. I introduce myself to parents and share my teaching philosophy. This is a favorite with parents!

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Educators Honored with YouScience® Innovative Educator Award

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With over 20 years of teaching experience, Darren Zink, along with Megan Holloway (3 years) and Paige Kanaly (5 years), share a group of 90 students and help them connect what they’re learning in the classroom with the real world.

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How to Be an Antiracist Educator: An Interview With Ibram X. Kendi

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So let’s say for instance, if you’re a wealthier parent—and most people of wealth are disproportionately white—and let’s say in your city, a single test determines who gets into a prestigious public high school. Does the book reflect your own teaching style or teaching philosophy? Is that how you teach?

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Thinking Outside the Music Box: Using Digital Tools to Teach Music and More

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Engaging the ‘Other 80 Percent’ In high school, research shows that only 20 percent of students participate in band, orchestra and choral programs. I have seen other schools offer this class and it is wildly popular. They were also mixing the music to make sure that the melody is more prominent than the drum beat.

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From the Marine Corps to the Classroom

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Last year, Talley Ochoa taught as a long-term sub in a public school in San Jose, California. This year, she’s teaching U.S. history at a high school in East Palo Alto while she wraps up her coursework. Marine Corps right out of high school, and later, went to work for a large clothing retailer.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

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At the all-girls boarding high school that Ruth Cady attended in a small Virginia town, she recalls being a middling student. By March 2000, during her senior year of high school, Ruth Cady was chatting with her assigned freshman roommate. She’s trying to show them her teaching philosophy, she explains.

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Taking Grades (Stress) Out of Learning 

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This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly. To accompany this teaching philosophy, I adopt ungrading 2 in all my courses. Grades were everythingsymbols of success and a source of validation. I continued this pattern in college, focused solely on grades and making my parents proud.

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