With this week being Truth and Reconciliation Week, it would be a good time to explore the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation based at the University of Manitoba. Under the heading, “Reconciliation Starts with Education,” many resources are available to help teachers including live sessions and daily virtual programming:
After reading the title, you may think this article has something to do with numeracy but that’s not the case. The scientist authors explored different ways teachers address the important skill of decision-making. They summarize key steps and describe a game called “Guts vs. Heads” in this article:
Overhearing a discussion lately led to doing a little research on this topic. Although calling positivity toxic seemed oxymoronic, there is logic behind the thinking. Nonetheless, the idea of labelling any opinion that differs from one’s own as “shaming” (as does this article) is worth a deep discussion on its own. Take a look here:
Here is a seven-year-old speaker telling us about brain development. What could be most impactful is her demonstration of how excessive usage of devices could affect child development. While the subject is not directly related to high school students, we can all draw conclusions about challenges our students may have:
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