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One Week Later: Healing Sandy Hook
David MarkusDecember 21, 2012
Tags Current Events, Mental Health, National, Teacher Development

It has been one week. The surreal string of heart-wrenching funeral services is winding down. The Sandy Hook children who survived have been placed in another school, and they will return in January. There is the facade of movement and activity in Newtown, Connecticut, but down deep, there is deep-seated grief and the inextinguishable memories of the 26 wonderful human beings gone too soon. It will be a long while before the families and educators will feel anything close to right again. But there are ways we can help and hasten the day when it hurts a little less.

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Unspeakable Tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School
David MarkusDecember 14, 2012
Tags Current Events, Mental Health, National

Editor's note: See David Markus's latest blog, "One Week Later: Healing Sandy Hook."

Words fail. Our hearts are broken. Only deeds matter after tragedy takes away our children and the adults who teach and care for them. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

President Obama spoke to the nation about this morning's heartbreaking events.

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Election Night at NPR: Real-World Projects for the Classroom
Andrew MillerNovember 13, 2012
Tags Current Events, Media Literacy, National, Project-Based Learning, High (9-12)

As you can see from the photo above, I got to politically "geek-out" on Election Night 2012. National Public Radio had put out an all-call for bloggers and other social media gurus to take part in #NPRMeetup. At this meetup, not only were we able to get up-to-the-minute developments on election results, but we were also behind the scenes at NPR Studios. The #NPRMeetup Team was comprised of a variety of individuals and political perspectives, all with their own objectives. My objective was to learn about the process and use these ideas to share with the education community in hopes that teachers might create classroom experiences that connected.

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Five-Minute Film Festival: National Day on Writing
Amy Erin Borovoy (aka VideoAmy)October 19, 2012
Tags Literacy, National, All Grades, English Language Arts

I'm excited to celebrate the 2012 National Day on Writing on October 19th and 20th. Sponsored by the National Writing Project, the National Council of Teachers of English, and a whole host of other great organizations (including Edutopia!), it's an opportunity to share your text with a mass audience, and a great way to bring awareness to the value of writing as a means of communication in the 21st century.

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Five-Minute Film Festival: Banned Books
Amy Erin Borovoy (aka VideoAmy)September 28, 2012
Tags Current Events, Literacy, National, All Grades, English Language Arts

September 30th kicks off Banned Books Week, a celebration of the freedom to read all across the country. This year is the event's thirtieth anniversary, as the battle against censorship marches on. In this digital society, where we have access to most any kind of information at our fingertips, there are still those who would limit our rights when it comes to what we read. While book censorship is almost always born from the best of intentions -- most often to protect the innocents -- it's a threat to our first amendment rights and something we should all rally to fight off.

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Five-Minute Film Festival: Remixing Civics
Amy Erin Borovoy (aka VideoAmy)September 21, 2012
Tags Current Events, Media Literacy, National, All Grades, History

September 17th was National Constitution Day, and with the elections fast approaching, it's a great time to start conversations with your students about civics. Several reports in the last few years have surfaced concerns that civics education is getting the short end of the stick in the American education system (read "Why Civic Education Needs a Boost" by Suzie Boss and "Let's Bring Civic Education to the Front Burner" by Anne O'Brien for more thoughts on this). And I probably don't need to convince anyone reading this about the value -- no, the absolute necessity -- of teaching young people to become engaged and active citizens.

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Join the Big Conversation of Learning 2.0
Suzie BossAugust 20, 2012
Tags Classroom Technology, Mobile Learning, National, Online Learning, , Technology Integration

What does it mean to rethink teaching and learning in the age of the Internet? That timely question will be examined from all angles this week by educators from around the globe. Appropriately, conversations will take place online in a free event called Learning 2.0.

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