home IDEO | A Design and Innovation Consulting Firm Khan Academy Mexican etiquette some white people need to learn on dad’s 77th birthday | The White Rhino: A Chicago Latino English Teacher I’ve stopped being surprised or offended when white colleagues don’t acknowledge me. I remember being 24 years old, walking down the long high-school hallway to my classroom. At the other end of the hallway walked a white colleague towards me. I looked straight ahead to avoid the awkward silence as you close the distance, while you wait for the moment you’re close enough to say hello, and, seconds before you cross, say, “How’s it goin’?” Or give that tight smile. It still happens all these years later. Despite the implied arrogance by some, not all of my white colleagues over the years, I stopped being surprised or offended. I started at DePaul in 1990 and drove there in a '79 Pontiac Bonneville my dad bought me for $250. But I didn’t. I just said, "No, Pa. My dad responded, "¡Salúdelos, m'ijo!" So when I walked by the Mexican men landscaping each morning, I said, "Buenos días." Recently, I realized what my dad really meant. My dad turns 77 today. It is, Pops.
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Institute of Design | K-12 Lab The d.school’s K-12 Lab team is abuzz with learnings from the recent DT2Schools Workshop. The workshop brought together teachers and administrators from 8 different schools, including two teachers from the Lab’s international partner Riverside School who came all the way from India. In addition to schools, representatives from Teach for America’s curriculum design team also attended. Teachers were immersed in design thinking with two cycles through our design process. Other big learnings for the Lab came from their “Low-Res, High Impact” point of view which led them to tailor the workshop activities so that everything presented in the workshop was at a scale that could be replicated in a public school classroom. To learn more about the K-12 Lab and what they’ve learned in two years of prototypes in classrooms and informal learning programs, check out their newly launched website.
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The White Rhino: A Chicago Latino English Teacher Why new Barack Obama Chicago public high school is unjust Today, Chicago Public Schools and Mayor Emanuel announced a new selective-enrollment high school on the near North side of Chicago. The new school—which will only accept students based on high test scores—will be built on Chicago Park District property near Halsted and Division: prime city real estate. The new school will likely be named after... Read more » Chicago Public Schools teacher blogger nominated for national award I tell my students to advocate for themselves—so I’m going to do the same. If CNN's Chicagoland profiled this Chicago Public Schools teacher I watched episodes 2, 3, and 4 of CNN’s original series Chicagoland with disappointment. Teachers should not be Facebook friends with students A New Hampshire substitute teacher lost her job because she would not unfriend over 250 students on Facebook. When a Chicago Public Schools teacher swears in class I admit it. Will Google doodle Cesar Chavez again on March 31?
Stump The Teacher Web Tools / General Web Tools Web 2.0 describes the way the internet is used today. It allows users to interact, share, build, and collaborate on a level never imagined. This section shares with our schools all the powerful, exciting tools that we use throughout our workshops. Be sure to check back often for new Tools BLOGGER: I would have to say Blogger is my top Web 2.0 and 21st century tool pick. From an educational standpoint, blogs allows educators and students to collaborate, share instructional resources, create content and connect to mainstream social media channels such as YouTube, podcasts, other blogs, tweets, social bookmarks, etc. all on a single centralized page. FOTOFLEXER: fotoflexer.com EJUCOMM: ejucomm.com VOKI: Voki is a great way to have students share their knowledge of a topic in 60 seconds or less. SKYPE: Skype is a great way to bring guest speakers to your classroom without the cost of transportation or missed work time. COLLABORIZE CLASSROOM: I love