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Something Beautiful

Pokémon Go blog post

Yesterday we saw an interesting reflection on the Pokémon Go phenomenon. Today my good friend Jackie Marsh posted on her digilitly about her research on young children's use of digital media. Excellent analysis at https://digilitey.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/pokemon-go-and-augmented-reality-play/

More to think about...

@ the Crossroads—A Sudden American Poem Juan Felipe Herrera

RIP Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Dallas police        officers Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, Michael J. Smith,        Brent Thompson, and Patrick Zamarripa—and all        their families. And to all those injured.                                                 Let us celebrate the lives of all As we reflect & pray & meditate on their brutal deaths Let us celebrate those who marched at night who spoke of peace & chanted Black Lives Matter Let us celebrate the officers dressed in Blues ready to protect  Let us know the departed as we did not know them before—their faces, Bodies, names—what they loved, their words, the stories they often spoke Before we return to the usual business of our days, let us know their lives intimately Let us take this moment & impossible as this may sound—let us find  The beauty in their lives in the midst of their sudden & never imagined vanishing Let us consider the Dallas shooter—what made him                                                            what happened in Afghanistan                                            what             flames burned inside (Who was that man in Baton Rouge with a red shirt selling CDs in the parking lot Who was that man in Minnesota toppled on the car seat with a perforated arm  & a continent-shaped flood of blood on his white T who was That man prone & gone by the night pillar of El Centro College in Dallas) This could be the first step              in the new evaluation of our society    This could be                 the first step of all of our lives     Copyright © 2016 by Juan Felipe Herrera. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on July 10, 2016, by the Academy of American Poets.

Day Three Morning Reflection

A very watered down but helpful description of Atwell's Workshop Model

This summer, many of us are focusing on different writing and reading workshop models. Some of us incorporate Lucy Calkins and her model and some of us incorporate Nancie Atwell's model into our classrooms. This is a description from a fellow at the Northern Nevada Writing Project. It may be helpful to some of us that are revamping the curriculum or some of us that are essentially starting from scratch!

http://writingfix.com/PDFs/Process/SWG_Jen_Alex_writers_workshop.pdf

Day two of 2016 Summer Institute

Today we started with a video from 2Pac Shakur.  We followed with a very interesting conversation and reflection from urban educators. We as urban educators must leave the comforts of our classrooms and visit the neighborhoods of our students. It is our goal to not only be aware of the barriers that our students face, but also provide resources for them to conquer all obstacles in their way.  By doing this we can not only embrace our students, we must also embrace the families and communities in which they come from. "It's Going To Take A Village To Raise A Child".

Day one of 2016 Summer Institute

We are off and running for the first day. I shared the reflection this morning. It is a spoken word piece called, "Everybody dies, but not everyone lives." The group was struck by the different perspective this person took. Several key lines stood out, but one came up a lot, "Leap, then build your wings on the way down."

My reflection:

The dream has me. I love this way of looking at life. How do I make a brand new ending? We only have this one life; what is the path for me? I feel like I am on that path now that "I" have East, the Market, my research, etc. Marcus is inches away from graduating. I can still move around okay. Fighting for justice is my dream and I feel privileged to get to do that as my job. Not sure justice will happen in my lifetime, but the fight is a good one. Day by day, relationship by relationship …