ELA Alcove

Rethinking Schools is honored to announce that Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices won the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Gold Award in the education category.

Palestine has long been one of the great silences in the official curriculum. Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices provides educators with powerful tools to uncover the history and current context of Palestine-Israel in the classroom — poetry, personal narratives, interviews, role plays, critical reading and writing activities, and more. Teaching Palestine offers a defense of Palestinian humanity centering Palestinian lives, uplifting and celebrating Palestinians’ struggle for justice, and critiquing racism and inequality.

IBPA Book Awards are regarded as one of the highest national honors for independent book publishers since 1985. The awards are administered by the Independent Book Publishers Association, with support from more than 170 publishing professionals, including librarians, bookstore owners, reviewers, designers, publicity managers, and editors.

Add Teaching Palestine to your library today!
https://rethinkingschools.org/books/teaching-palestine/

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The truth!
via Diversity Kids

One of the biggest mistakes we make around struggling children is believing that physical presence automatically equals learning.

It doesn’t.

A child can sit in a classroom every single day while their nervous system is overwhelmed, shut down, masking, panicking or simply trying to survive the environment around them.

And the longer that distress is ignored, the bigger the cost often becomes.

This isn’t about “giving up” on education.

It’s about understanding that regulation, safety and connection are not rewards that come after learning.

They are the foundation that learning is built on.

So many families are being blamed for difficulties that started long before attendance dropped.

If this resonates with you, follow our page for more content around nervous system overwhelm and supporting misunderstood children.

And if you’ve ever looked at your child and thought,
“They physically got there… but they weren’t really coping” — drop a ❤️ below.

Also, we have a library of free resources, including ones on emotionally based school avoidance, just put the word NEWS below in the comments and we can send you a link.

HOMESCHOOLING PARENTS - Do you have a child who is sensitive, gifted, neurodivergent, or just needs to have a choice of activities? This online class might be what you're looking for!

My ELA classes are low-demand and high engagement! I spend a short time in each class explaining one thing students can do to improve their writing or to better understand literature. They have the opportunity to apply it - or not - with their choice of literature and writing. We also do things as a group, but no one is ever forced to participate.

Through a gently guided process, students learn to pursue their own goals and take responsibility for their learning path.

For more information, see: https://EncourageEducation.net/alcove
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“To get why this is fun, we need to look at languages in general. A great many of them pack more shades of meaning into a word, or sentence, than English does.”

Young folks help English grow up Have you noticed how the kids are saying “low key” a lot these days? I don’t mean in the traditional meaning of “mellow,” but something a little subtler.

As we enter the weeks of measuring our young people’s ability’s based on scoring a certain amount at a certain point in their lives I’m
turning to those who know that we can quit, start over and even fail and get to good places.
Exams are for others to judge us.
But our own arts, writing and minds are our own to find fulfilment in ways that work for us.
Who cares how are when we get there? Life’s for exploring and trying out.
It’s never too late…