Conference to Restore Humanity! 2025: Quest for Connection

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better: A Teacher's Journey

Syrie

2023

An overview of reflective practice in education, leading to systems-based change centered on trusting youth and removing dehumanizing elements of classrooms.

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Jonathan deHaan A cel-shaded silhouette of a black and white man.

Jonathan researches the why and how of teaching language and literacy with games in his Game Terakoya project. He co-edits the Ludic Language Pedagogy journal.

An image of the lighthouse with the text Third Coast Learning Collaborative.

Reimagining public middle schools in Western Michigan.

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Listening and learning from 400+ young people & educators.

Lisa Demro

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Lisa has been teaching English Language Arts for 12 years in her home-state of Wisconsin. She's also a registered yoga teacher with a passion for bringing mindfulness to the classroom.

Hindsight

August 14, 2020

We don’t know what the world will look like, but this will be another chapter in our lives that will end and upon which we will be able to look back.

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Teaching Anti-Racism Isn’t “Progressive.” It’s Essential.

June 1, 2020

I always considered myself pretty “progressive,” but to be honest, I turned a blind eye to the world’s many issues because those things just didn’t seem to happen where I’m from: a predominantly white, rural community that was always a little behind on the times.

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Waiting

September 8, 2019

I stepped back into my classroom for the 11th year after another summer of learning and growth. I was armed with new ideas, a thicker suit of armor to protect my sensitive empath soul, and, of course, a heart full of unconditional love.

Small, big changes

May 27, 2019

I have seen every single one of my students move forward as readers and writers in measurable ways. I’m talking about kids who went from never reading so much as a letter of a printed page on their own to finishing two or more novels this year...

On failure

March 19, 2019

But this past week, as I sat in front of my gradebook and frowned at a 6% (6% of what?), I realized that although my grading practices have evolved, my definition of failure has not. So I ask you: what does it mean to fail?

The Real World

March 3, 2019

What is the “real world”? And how do you know when you’re there?

It's about mattering, feeling like you matter and also that what you're doing matters. I think it's important for me that I feel like I can bring my full self to something, heart and head, and that all of the various parts of me are alive and challenged and supported and so all of that kind of comes back to love, feeling loved, loving seems at the center of a good life to me.

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