Keep On Mixing

Keep On Mixing

Author: Teaching Tolerance Staff

Source: Teaching Tolerance

Published: November 3, 2016

Keep On Mixing Article

Key Points:

• Briefly discusses the National Mix it Up Lunch Day that previously happened on October 25. On this day, students are encouraged to sit with other students they do not usually sit with during lunch and learn something new about them or their history, ethnicity, race, or culture. The idea is to address pervasive social divisions and help others learn more about what varieties and types of people exist in our own communities.
• The goal of the article was for schools and teachers to continue mixing it up in the classroom all year. Students should constantly be mixing it up and learning about

Is Graffiti Art? (TedEd)

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Literacy Expert: Weak Readers Lack Fluency, Not Critical Thinking

Literacy Expert: Weak Readers Lack Fluency, Not Critical Thinking
Education Week

May 28th, 2015

By Liana Heitin

Audience: educators, principals, administrators, parents, school leaders

Key Points: Struggling readers don't lack the ability to think critically. The are constantly thinking critically about topics they enjoy whether that be sports, art, music, (and even about their own teachers). The problem, literacy expert David Liben explains, for students unable to read at their required grade level is fluency and vocabulary. He also argues that "Fluency doesn't guarantee comprehension, but lack of fluency guarantees almost all the time a lack of comprehension, especially with more complex text."

Relevance: This is important when trying to find out why students aren't meeting goals. We see numbers (test scores) but not the solution. This article helps articulate that what test scores show is never the full story. Students have the abilities and skills (critical thinking) to do what is asked of them but not always the resources (fluency/vocabulary) to do so.