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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about electives.
Electives I want to design, like one about Youtube creation and one about Taylor Swift, and the amazing electives teachers in our community are designing and teaching around the world.
So of course I’m really excited that today on the podcast we’ve got the first show in a new series about creative electives. My hope is that this series will bring you inspiration for new electives you can propose or new units you can teach, modeled on your favorite parts of other people’s electives, within your current courses.
I’ll be interviewing teachers about some of their favorite electives - what they are, what they accomplish, and how they do it.
On today’s show we're diving into an interview with Amanda Beal, a creative teacher in Northern Minnesota. She’s going to be talking about a powerful elective for the world today, when we are so divided and yet so fearful of talking about the issues that divide us. I’m going to let her reveal the name and nature of this elective in just a moment - so stay tuned.
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185: Highly Recommended: Faculty Fun
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183: Highly Recommended: Time-Saving Templates
182: Want to Support Student Well Being? I Know! (Here's Help)
181: Highly Recommended: John Spencer's Video Writing Prompts
180: The One about Eastern Europe
179: Highly Recommended: SBB's Baths vs. Showers
178: Struggling to Make it to the End of the Year? Try this.
177: Highly Recommended: Starfish
176: Reasons to Feel Hopeful about AI at School
175: Actionable ABAR Steps in ELA, with Liz Kleinrock
174: A New ELA Go-To? 15 Ways to use La Literatura de Cordel
173: Enjoy Teaching Rhetorical Analysis (with these Strategies)
172: Celebrating Black Authors, Artists, & Activists in ELA
171: 6 Wonderful Ways you can use Graphic Novels
170: How to Host a Graphic Novel Book Tasting
169: Turning Classics into Graphic Novels, with Gareth Hinds
168: Why I'm not Worried about the New AI Tools
167: Fight Erasure. Feature Contemporary Indigenous Voices in Class.
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