#edutooters — Public Fediverse posts

Interesting Edutopia article by Cathleen Beachboard, 'Why Students Give Up on a Task—and What Teachers Can Do About It'

I guess not really anything new, but I found it a helpful reminder and clear statement of strategies to use in the classroom:

"Students today are often described as unmotivated when they struggle with challenging work. But motivation is not always the issue. Students begin the task—they open the laptop, pick up the pencil, and start thinking. They are ready to try. The challenge appears when the path forward becomes uncertain and the work becomes uncomfortable.

Persistence is the skill that carries students through that moment.

When teachers normalize struggle, encourage students to talk about strategies, and structure tasks into manageable steps, students stop seeing difficulty as a sign that they’re failing and begin to see it as evidence that they’re doing the kind of thinking that leads to learning."

https://www.edutopia.org/article/guiding-students-persist-work-gets-difficult?utm_content=linkpos1&utm_campaign=weekly-2026-04-08&utm_medium=email&utm_source=edu-newsletter

#Education #Teaching #StudentEngagement #Persistence #EduTooters #Edutopia

We know that educators who relied on the The World Factbook as a reference for teaching geography are reeling at the news that it has been taken offline.

We've put together a collection of other free, online resources that can help fill that gap, along with our best regional geography lessons (which are also free!)

Take a look and please share this with your educator friends.

https://journeysinfilm.org/teach-world-geography-with-film/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=World+Fact+Book&utm_content=link

#WorldFactBook #CIAWorldFactBook #Geography #Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #Teaching #Teachers #TeachingResources #SocialStudies #MiddleSchool

We have resources to help you talk about gun violence in your classroom and community. We wish we didn't need to.

To educate yourself and start sensitive discussions around gun violence, we recommend Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down, the story of gun violence survivor Gabby Giffords.

The team that worked on our teaching resources for Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down included gun violence survivors — and it shows. These materials are powerful, accessible and not political at all.

Our Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down Learning Guide also includes our Facilitation Guidelines for Group Discussions, to help students and communities voice things they need to talk about.

Like all of our resources, this guide is free for everyone.

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/gabby-giffords-wont-back-down/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Dec25&utm_term=Gun+Violence&utm_content=Link

#GunViolence #GunViolenceAwareness #CurrentEvents #Education
#CommunityHealing #Minnesota #Minneapolis #Activism #Movies #USPol
#Homeschooling
#Edutooters

Let us help. We have resources to help you talk about gun violence in your classroom & community. We wish we didn't need to.

To start sensitive discussions around gun violence, we recommend Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down, the story of gun violence survivor Gabby Giffords

The team that worked on our teaching resources for Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down included gun violence survivors — and it shows. These materials are powerful, accessible and not political at all.

Our Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down Learning Guide also includes our Facilitation Guidelines for Group Discussions, to help students voice things they need to talk about.

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/gabby-giffords-wont-back-down/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Dec25&utm_term=Gun+Violence&utm_content=Link

#GunViolence #GunViolenceAwareness #CurrentEvents #Education #CommunityHealing #BondiBeach #Bondi #BrownUniversity #MentalHealth #Activism #Movies #Homeschooling #Edutooters

For International Day of Persons with Disabilities, celebrate and educate with Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution! Get our free Crip Camp lesson plans to teach about ableism, disability rights history, and the connection to disability justice.

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/crip-camp/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=IDPwD&utm_content=Link

@histodons

#DisabilityDay #IDPD #DisabilityPride #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityHistory #Activism #DisabledVoices #History #Education #Homeschooling #Edutooters #Movies

Happy International Literacy Day. We're celebrate with film-book pairings!

Pairing books & films together can be a powerful way to boost student engagement and get hesitant readers excited about books. We've got suggestions for films to pair with books including Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story The Yellow Wallpaper.

https://journeysinfilm.org/boost-student-engagement-with-film-book-pairings/

#InternationalLiteracyDay #Literacy #Education #Edutooters #Books #Teachers #Homeschooling #Film #StudentEngagement

There are ways to work around something like that and with communication you can work something out, and it’s not a huge issue.

#diversity #inclusivity #diverse #inclusive #ally
#PublicSchool #School #TotallySecular
#DearTeachers #DearParents #DearPrincipal
#EduTooters #Educators #Influencer

#FreedomOfReligion #FreedomFromReligion

#MedinatAmerica = #Satire

6/6

Dear Dr. Cohen,

I understand you got a complaint about last weekend’s Bonfire Jambor33 at our #school. You don’t strictly need to worry about responding — this family writes to complain about literally every cultural event we have.

https://medium.com/@jewwhohasitall/none-of-these-are-somehow-religious-activities-4f004c579ecf

#diversity
#FreedomOfReligion #FreedomFromReligion
#chag #chagim #holiday #holidays
#PublicSchool #TotallySecular
#DearPrincipal
#EduTooters #Educators

#MedinatAmerica = #Satire

Thank you, and #ChagSameach to EVERYONE!
Pnina Pearlman

#PublicSchool #School #TotallySecular
#DearTeachers #DearParents #DearPrincipal
#EduTwitter #EduTooters #Educators
#MedinatAmerica
4/4

Accommodations for The Holidays

https://medium.com/@jewwhohasitall/accommodations-for-the-holidays-baea0b027b1

#PublicSchool #School #TotallySecular
#DearTeachers #DearParents #DearPrincipal
#EduTwitter #EduTooters #Educators
#MedinatAmerica

Welcome to the Third Grade!

https://medium.com/@jewwhohasitall/welcome-to-the-third-grade-6be13216ec2f

#PublicSchool #School #TotallySecular
#DearTeachers #DearParents #DearPrincipal
#EduTwitter #EduTooters #Educators
#MedinatAmerica