110/365 I had great Fun ‘Discussing Diabetes with Owls’
The first time I read anything by David Sedaris was over a weekend when a friend and I had taken the train up from Central Illinois to housesit for my aunt and uncle. I was in high school, and this was...
View Article154/365 Schools and Markets
About halfway through Michael Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy: The moral limits of markets, a phrase from the book’s introduction is still in my head: The problem with our politics is not too much moral...
View Article#WorthReading: Claudia Rankine’s _Citizen_
I don’t take as much time as I’d like to read. When I do, it is helpful for me to know someone I know thinks the book I’m about to open was worth their time. This summer, I’ll be posting each Tuesday...
View Article#WorthReading: What I saw in ‘The Bluest Eye’
I don’t take as much time as I’d like to read. When I do, it is helpful for me to know someone I know thinks the book I’m about to open was worth their time. This summer, I’ll be posting each Tuesday...
View ArticleOn Whose Shoulders: Lisa Delpit’s _Other People’s Children_
A quick keyword search for Lisa Delpit on the blog will show I’ve thought and written about her work pretty deeply over the years as I’ve thought about what it means to be the other in my classroom...
View ArticleA History of a Thing I Lost
39: What is one object that you have lost that you wish you could get back? #LifeWideLearning16 @mrchase — Ben Wilkoff (@bhwilkoff) February 8, 2016 Are there books you can read more than once? I’m...
View ArticleThe One Question I Ask Everyone (4/365)
Photo by Evan Dennis on Unsplash Just before I started my new job last year, I tried to think about what kind of signature I might want to add to conversations. I was about to meet many more teachers...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Read: All the Pretty Horses (6/365)
If we’re connected on Goodreads, you know I’ve set a challenge for myself of 52 books this year. If you follow me in this space, you know I’m all about the importance of educators talking about their...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Read: The Hate U Give (13/365)
If we’re connected on Goodreads, you know I’ve set a challenge for myself of 52 books this year. If you follow me in this space, you know I’m all about the importance of educators talking about their...
View ArticleI Bet Killing a Mockingbird Wouldn’t Be So Bad
Why are you teaching To Kill a Mockingbird? Most of the time, when I ask this question, I get the answer that it is an important text. Students need to read it because of its place in the American...
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