Teachers of Tomorrow across Washington State

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Meet Henry Cody Miller, who goes by Cody. He brings empathy and honesty into his classroom each day. As a ninth-grade English Language Arts teacher, he uses a windows-and-mirrors approach for his instruction, making sure all students in his class have mirrors of themselves in the books they read as well as windows into other people's stories. Miller also co-constructs the curriculum with his students, allowing them to suggest texts and books that interest them. "I believe the curriculum has to be a living, breathing entity, and I think it has to be made with teachers and students in mind," he says.

2016 Teaching Tolerance Award Winner Cody Miller About Teaching Tolerance: Founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup rel...

Teachers Say What's Wrong With Education In The U.S. States across the U.S. have reported teacher shortages. AJ+ spoke with some teachers who are still working in the classroom about what's wrong with public ed...

The decline of play in preschoolers — and the rise in sensory issues Here is a new post from pediatric occupational therapist Angela Hanscom, author of a number of popular posts on this blog, including “Why so many kids can’t sit still in school today,” as well as “The right — and surprisingly wrong — ways to get kids to sit still in class” and “How schools ruined [……

Bedtime Stories for Young Brains Two new studies examine the unexpectedly complex interactions that happen when you put a small child on your lap and open a picture book.

Science Proves Reading To Kids Really Does Change Their Brains Pediatricians often recommend parents routinely read aloud to their young children. Now, for the first time, researchers have hard evidence that doing so activates the parts of preschoolers' brains that

How should teachers address late work? Watch the video to see what Rick Wormeli suggests and let us know what you think!

Rick Wormeli: On Late Work The issue of how to address late work comes up frequently. Should we hold accountable those students who have not proven themselves proficient to the same st...

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Seattle’s universal preschool program, funded by the voter-approved $58 million levy, will begin as a pilot next September, opening to only 14 classrooms. The eventual goal, as the name suggests, is universal pre-k for all families. But in the first years, the pilot program will focus on children from poorer neighborhoods and those populations that stand to gain the most from a pre-k program.

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Senate rejects plan to allow parents to opt out of state standardized tests The vote came as Congress attempts to rewrite the No Child Left Behind law.

As you watch the teachers in the documentary "American Teacher" struggle, it's hard not to feel like crying, both for them specifically and for our nation's children.

AMERICAN TEACHER: Official Trailer AMERICAN TEACHER is the feature-length documentary produced and directed by Academy Award--winning filmmaker Vanessa Roth; produced by Nínive Calegari, co-fo...

11 Habits of an Effective Teacher 11 Habits of an Effective Teacher Related Tags: Professional Development,Teacher Development,All Grades More Related Discussions Carrie Lam , Academic Director, Teacher & Workshop Leader, Canada Posted 07/05/2014 10:12AM | Last Commented 06/02/2015 3:37AM 4792 Shares 71 140549 Views I really appreci…

A growing body of research shows that the stress of growing up in poverty can have long-term effects on children's brains and cognitive development. How can so-called "toxic stress" be prevented?

Watch now: PBS NewsHour | How does 'toxic stress' of poverty hurt the brain? | PBS Video How can so-called “toxic stress” be prevented?

Thanks to the Perkins Funds, the Teachers of Tomorrow Club at Whatcom Community College was able to send four students to the Focus on Children conference at Bellingham Technical College on February 7th. The keynote speaker was Dan Finkel and he spoke about nurturing the math instinct within all of us! Workshops ranged from rich literature to making thinking visible to drumming, rhythm and musical play and more! This conference happens every first Saturday of February at BTC. Keep an eye out for registration and we hope to see you there next year!

A powerful website:
http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/VisibleThinking1.html

Visible Thinking Purpose and GoalsVisible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultiv…

Check out this great website:
http://mathforlove.com/

Welcome to Math for Love Transforming how math is taught and learned

Thanks to Vince Dreyer for organizing this awesome event at Whatcom Community College!

On Thursday April 16th 2015, the Teachers of Tomorrow Club at Whatcom Community College hosted a free screening of the documentary "Go Public: A Day in the Life of an American School District." This film is very inspiring and gives a first person view into what one day at school looks like. Not only does it follow students and teachers, it also includes many of the other people in charge of the very important behind the scenes work. Parents, administrators, janitors, food service personnel and other support staff are also extremely vital to the inner workings of our schools. Superintendent Dr. Linda Quinn of Ferndale School District, and Director of Teaching and Learning Steve Morse of Bellingham School District were in attendance and participated in the discussion afterward. This DVD will be available for check out in the WCC’s library. I strongly recommend you to watch this film!

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On Thursday April 16th 2015, the Teachers of Tomorrow Club at Whatcom Community College hosted a free screening of the documentary "Go Public: A Day in the Life of an American School District." This film is very inspiring and gives a first person view into what one day at school looks like. Not only does it follow students and teachers, it also includes many of the other people in charge of the very important behind the scenes work. Parents, administrators, janitors, food service personnel and other support staff are also extremely vital to the inner workings of our schools. Superintendent Dr. Linda Quinn of Ferndale School District, and Director of Teaching and Learning Steve Morse of Bellingham School District were in attendance and participated in the discussion afterward. This DVD will be available for check out in the WCC’s library. I strongly recommend you to watch this film!

Dan Pink: How Teachers Can Sell Love of Learning to Students As education grows and changes educators have the opportunity to change the way they envision their roles and their classrooms.

What an unbelievable conference! Thank you so much WCC Teachers of Tomorrow club for sending us to the Teaching Equity Conference at Highline. Katie Brown taught us so much about English Language Learners. Can't wait to go next May in 2016!

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Here’s a quote by Albert Einstein to get you started:
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of minds to think."

With a little research, I found out that is a synthesized quote. The actual quote goes like this: “It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”