My next gig, Friday, February 13, 2015:
How Stereotypes Affect Academic Achievement In Every School
Think of a racial stereotype you’ve heard. Think of a …
My next gig, Friday, February 13, 2015:
How Stereotypes Affect Academic Achievement In Every School
Think of a racial stereotype you’ve heard. Think of a …
Chilling-effect — In constitutional law, the inhibition or discouragement of the legitimate exercise of a a constitutional right, especially one protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, by the potential or threatened …
Few will understand the references inherent in this, but I post it here as some strange, permanent testament to what I consider a wholly undeserved honor. To share a tweet with these three – Amy Ramponi, Steve Jones, and Chuck Shalhorn – is simply …
…our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry…
It must be January in San Francisco.
How do I know? It’s not the 60* highs … it’s that I had my first Track & Field nightmare last night…
I believe the days of voicemail are over; the technology – like that of the fax machine – has been supplanted in both form and function. As a recipient, listening to voicemail is far less efficient than reading a text-based message; and as a caller, …
Today, I earned the coveted Get Out of Hell free card by helping a nun change her flat tire.
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Waiting for the outbound 71 Haight … time does not move this rapidly…
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Without exception, every trip I have taken in a taxicab has been uncomfortable, regardless of city or country. It has involved one or more of the following:
The 50 books I read in 2014.
I re-read some classics, which I really enjoyed (like Red Harvest and The Hobbit), found some new greats (like How We Got to Now …
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This is how my family has sung “Happy Birthday” for generations.
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“I think as we get older our Christmas list gets smaller and the things we really want for the holiday can’t be bought”
Amen.
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The world goes by on a rainy day at 24th & Harrison.
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For the first time, I feel the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator lesson went particularly well. Rather than simply lecture on the topic and rather than have …
I had reason recently to reflect on ways in which information is communicated within schools. I will argue that it’s the same calculus whether planning for class instruction, departmental meetings, or whole-school communication, and that comes down …
If you want someone to accept new evidence, make sure to present it to them in a context that doesn’t trigger a defensive, emotional reaction.
Need some sensation and perception ideas? @eecastro hosts #psychat tonight. 8 pm CST be there!
— Amy Ramponi (@AmyRamponi)November 5, 2014
We’ll start with introductions. Let us know what you teach and where you teach it (city if that’s …
Miller-Fleig 2014 Collegial Observation
The above is a write-up (linked here also) of a class-observation of my Psych class, done by a colleague.
In general, I felt the class went …