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3 thoughts on “Our Non-responses Tell Students How to Act 1”
Thank you John. Really powerful reminder: “This is our work. We cannot hide behind content.”
Teaching Tolerance is the free magazine that promotes the Mix-It Up Lunches. They are a division of the Southern Poverty Law network. These lunches are about reaching across the lunchroom aisles to know the people we share our school with.
I cannot think of any better comment on the times we live in than NYT reporting on a group protesting an anti-bullying program.
If you have never checked out Teaching Tolerance, I suggest you do. It is an excellent resource. There are thoughtful teachers doing the same kind of life conversation work you are doing in your classrooms. The activities are fabulous. I used one of their activities last summer in the workshop I did at Vegas.
For those of you who have been looking at trying to talk about deeper subjects within your classroom conversations, this is a great place for ideas.
I am the green light teacher. I do not allow kids to say things that are intolerant of others, however, I suck at classroom management and I allow kids to totally bully me. I am so over it but I am not sure how to change the behavior especially because I always say I will change my behavior at the beginning of the year and I never do. I feel so intimidated by the glare of the teenage bitch.
I would do so much better working with at risk youth because I want so desperately to be real with these kids but I do not want them to run and tell mommy and daddy I said something wrong or tell a principal that I am not teaching in the way they have learned in the past so therefore I must be wrong and that is what I deal with where I teach. I think that was a run on sentence.