Adventures in Learning

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• Real Education Is Human

• Bowl of Wishes for American Education

• No Friction Homework

• What’s The Purpose of Education?

• If You Were A Learning Entrepreneur

• Paradoxes of Our Work

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• Guest Posts
• Teaching Civic Engagement: Dear Mr. President (Guest Post by Kelly Dillon)
• Creating a Powerful Education for Our Children (Guest post by Beth Kimberly @Playworks)
• How Should Education be Transformed? (Guest Post by Occupy High Students)
• Can A Community Support Education? (Guest Post by Donna Mikkelsen)
• OCCUPY EDUCATION
• It Takes People to Make a Change, Not a Government (Guest post by student Diego Negrón Reichard)
• These Kids Nowadays! School Change and the New Generation Gap (Guest Post by Lisa Cooley)
• Learning Revolution, Are You Ready? (Guest Post by Line Dalile)
• Belief Only Carries Us So Far (Guest Post by Emily Crum)
• Not Ready to Listen? (Guest Post by Adora Svitak)
• A Positive Vision of a Transformed Education
• Getting Real About Engagement (Guest Post By Adam Fletcher)
• Occupy High: A Protest of Education Funding Cuts (Guest Post by Kalila Bohsali)
• Pragmatic suggestions for schoolers from unschoolers (Guest Post by Patrick Farenga)
• Intrapersonal Awareness in Education (Guest Post by Landon Gupta)
• Occupy Education Blogger March Days of Action
• Education as a Essential Gesture of Human Existence
• Blog for IDEC 2012: Real Education is…
• Personal Creeds and Philosophies of the Right Kind of Education.
• Is College Worth it? Guest Post by Mike Newman
• Occupy Education Today! (Guest Post by Hannah Faye)
• Where great IDEAs come from: People working together, Not Superman
• Students should be at the center of Authentic Assessment

Here are some of the Cooperative Catalyst posts that I have written or curated.

-Adventures In Learning

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•   What if schools did away with transcripts? 
• What (Really) Works 
•  Occupy your classroom 
•  The Real Reason Kids Are Missing From School 
•  Learning? Yes, of course. Education? No, thanks. 
•  Ideological Diversity 
•  Teacher collaboration is important, but not for the reasons we might think 
•  Cooperative Catalyst Presents: Kirsten Olson
• Education: Obfuscation, Metonym or Comparison Device? 
•  Educational Dystopia — It Happens With Every Model

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Intrapersonal Awareness in Education (Guest Post by Landon Gupta)

Posted by dloitz ⋅ November 28, 2011 ⋅ 4 Comments

Early in my college-level studies I went into counseling and psychotherapy. In the course of a few semesters my intrapsychic being began to undergo such a radical transformation that the counseling model continues to greatly influence my outlook on education. I also feel very strongly about the potential inherent by developing each aspect of multiple … Continue reading »

Occupy Education Blogger March Days of Action

Posted by dloitz ⋅ November 17, 2011 ⋅ 9 Comments

Please join us by making your voice heard! The Occupy Education blogger marches in solidarity with the direct action around the world is meant to help amplify our voice and those of other teachers, parents and students. From Portland to Wall St to Munich to Madrid, students, parents and teachers are marching for a better … Continue reading »

Is College Worth it? Guest Post by Mike Newman

Posted by dloitz ⋅ October 25, 2011 ⋅ 5 Comments

This question about the value of college in today’s faltering economy seems to be a popular question that has been floating around the blogosphere lately. For me it has been a question floating in my mind since graduating from college in 2004, primarily because my college experience was very lackluster to say the least. I … Continue reading »

It Takes People to Make a Change, Not a Government (Guest post by student Diego Negrón Reichard)

Posted by dloitz ⋅ September 26, 2011 ⋅ 11 Comments

 ( in Spanish and English) Vivo en Puerto Rico. Un país de decir, pero no hacer, de ver, pero no creer, de querer algo, pero no lo suficiente como para tomarlo en nuestras manos, de esperar, pero sin saber lo que estamos esperando. Mi nombre es Diego Negrón y la verdad es que esto se aplica … Continue reading »

Students should be at the center of Authentic Assessment

Posted by dloitz ⋅ September 17, 2011 ⋅ 13 Comments

What is Authentic Assessment? What is the purpose of assessment, grades, tests? It is not enough to just assess what students know or don’t know and mark it in a book or relay it to the parents, twice a year at conferences. I think assessment should be used solely for the the betterment and growth … Continue reading »

Most of my recent posts have been in the form of being the curator of guest post on the Cooperative. I role I really enjoy, Part teacher, part editor, part encouragement/critical friend, plus I love to search the internet for great teacher/student voices and help them craft a post for the Cooperative. If any of the amazing teachers or activist on Tumblr would like to guest post on the Cooperative, please email me at coopcatalyst@gmail.com

-Adventure in Learning

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• The Finland Phenomenon - a film about schools
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• The Finland Phenomenon - a film about schools  
• The #blog4nwp archive
•  Empowering Self-Directed Learners
•  My Inner Pollyanna’s Ed Reform Blue Sky
• I Am the Ninety-Nine Percent, And Actually I’m Pissed
• Why I Accept Late Work
• Ten Reasons to Abolish Homework (And Five Alternatives)
•  An indictment of whom?  
• Khan Academy does not constitute an education revolution, but I’ll tell you what does  
• Teaching: The Most Noble Profession
•  #blog4NWP
•  Focus - a book written by Mike Schmoker
• When A School Is About Learning
• Pedagogy of Fear - Guest Post by Morna M. Mcdermott
• Top Ten List for Reluctant Teacher-Transformers