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Teaching Debate in Chile: Age of Wisdom, Season of Light, Spring of Hope
The Last Shot: A Season Like No Other: 1980 Luxora Panthers
The Chilean National English Test: The Years 2001 – 2014 [Kindle Edition]
Teaching & Learning English in Chile
The Chilean National English Test: The Years 2001 – 2014 [Kindle Edition]
Summer Time! Reading Time! Any Time!
How to Self-Publish Your Book For Free on CreateSpace & Amazon Kindle
Selected Essays on Education: [Kindle Edition]
Selected Essays On Education: Call & Response – “When One Teaches Two Learn” [Paperback]
Second Language Acquisition: Language, Culture & Identity, for English Language Learners Worldwide – ELL / ESL / EAL / EFL
Let A Thousand Models Bloom: The Unconference is Dead
Teaching English Language Learners Worldwide: Theory & Practical Guide
Participating in a MOOC
(Paperback) Edcamp Chile: Aprendizaje Por Profesores, Para Profesores
EdCamp Chile: Aprendizaje Por Profesores, Para Profesores (GRATIS!) (FREE!)
Soy Un Maestro: I Am A Teacher (Spanglish)
Epiphany in A Cluttered Room: A Memoir of Sorts
Epiphany in A Cluttered Room: A Memoir of Sorts
Born to Teach: (Kindle Edition)
Bilingual in Chile: An Impossible Dream?
How to Coach a Debate Team
MY #CCK11 Experience
Connectivism & Connected Knowledge
Exceptional Educational Leadership
The International Baccalaureate
Teaching & Learning English in Chile
Chilean National English Test ReVisited: SIMCE Inglés
Born to Teach
Teaching Academic Writing
The Spelling Bee For EFL Teachers
Boudicca
The Mother Tongue
Teaching the Four Skills in EFL
Pecha Kucha & English Language Teaching
Fear of Writing
Exploring Chinese Education
EdCamp Santiago: The First Seven Days
EdCamp Santiago: A R(E)volution in Professional Development
La DesConferencia: EdCamp Santiago
The Native Speaker Myth ReVisited
Writing For Publication: Publish or Perish
How to Teach the “Art” of Writing
Being A Reading Teacher
Being A Teacher in Chile
The PLN: Professional Learning Network
The Interview Teacher: From Imagination to Sophistication
The Collected Short Stories of T. Jerome Baker
How to Coach A Debate Team
The Last Story Teller: The Philosopher’s Stone
Luxora: My Hometown
The Last Shot: A Season Like No Other (1980 Luxora Panthers Basketball Team)
White Nights & Dark Days
Alexis Sanchez: The Beautiful Game
Let A Thousand Models Bloom: The UnConference is Dead
Most Studious: A Collection of Personal Essays
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Category Archives: teachers
Boys will be boys? How schools can be guilty of gender bias
That’s the issue at the heart of Boys Don’t Try?, the book he has co-authored with fellow English teacher Mark Roberts; as its subtitle explains, it is all about “rethinking masculinity in schools”. Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Education, human-rights, Reading, Research, teachers, Teaching Tips, Writing
Tagged education, expectations, gender, gender bias, masculinity, school, stereotypes
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Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart… 66 Years Later
Through his fiction and non-fiction works, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has sought to repair the damage done to the continent of Africa and its people as a result of European colonization. This is best exemplified in his most famous novel “Things Fall Apart,” one of the first African novels written in English to achieve national acclaim Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Education, human-rights, linguistics, Reading, teachers, Writing
Tagged author, Chinua Achebe, IBO, Igbo, literature, Nigeria, poet, Things Fall Apart, writer
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Meet Dr. Wendy A. Okolo | At age 26 she obtained a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington
She is an award-winning Associate Project Manager and Aerospace Researcher Engineer focused on flight dynamics, vehicle controls, and systems health monitoring in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Dr Wendy Okolo is also an avid supporter of changing the narrative of underrepresentation in STEM, particularly for young girls, career woman, and people of color. Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Black History Month, Cover Reveal, Culture, Education, human-rights, Interviews, linguistics, Music, Reflections, Research, teachers
Tagged Aerospace Researcher Engineer, Dr Wendy Okolo, Intelligent Systems Division, Most Influential People of African Descent, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Nigeria, PhD, STEM, United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent.
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“Recibí un premio y me dijeron que era una cuota”: escritoras denuncian machismo en el mundo del libro
Una escritora publica una novela infantil y le preguntan si lo siguiente “ya es una novela de verdad”. Todo esto relatan escritoras de diversos géneros literarios a elDiario.es. Los micromachismos en el mundo del libro lastran el desarrollo del talento de las escritoras en un ámbito en el que son quienes más leen y menos publican. Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Culture, Education, human-rights, Politics, Reading, Reflections, teachers, Writing
Tagged androcentrico, autor, autora, cisgender, cuota, editor, editorial, escritor, escritora, España, feminizado, femme fatale, género, género negro, heteronormative, literatura, machismo, mansplaining, masculinizado, menosprecio, novela, paternalismo, sexismo
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The Tightrope of Excellence: Black Women and Authenticity
In our workplaces, the pursuit of perfection often overshadows showing up authentically, especially for Black women. Long have we, as Black women, realized that the adage “work twice as hard to get half as far” is more than mere words: it becomes our lived reality and an unrelenting burden. Continue reading
UNESCO Report | Technology On Her Terms: Social media affects girls’ well-being and learning
Midway to the deadline for the 2030 education targets, the 2024 Gender Report due out on Girls in ICT day (25 April) assesses the progress made towards achieving gender parity across all levels of education. While examples of stubborn exclusion remain, the report tells a positive story at the global level for girls’ access and education attainment over the past two decades. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Debates, Education, Education Technology, human-rights, Politics, Reading, Reflections, Research, teachers
Tagged education, gender, gender equity, gender parity, technology, UNESCO
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Jornada de alegatos en el Tribunal Constitucional (TC) | Debate por la educación no sexista
Debate por la educación no sexista: Fuente: T13 El Tribunal Constitucional (TC) rechazó el requerimiento ingresado por 54 diputadas y diputados de oposición que buscaban declarar inconstitucional algunos aspectos de la ley que establece medidas para prevenir, sancionar y erradicar la violencia en contra de las mujeres en razón de su género. Continue reading
Posted in Education, human-rights, Politics, Reflections, teachers
Tagged abogada, CEDAW, Convención para Prevenir, derechos, desigualdad, educación, educación no sexista, equidad, Erradicar la Violencia contra la Mujer, género, igualdad, MMyEG, Sancionar, TC, Tribunal Constitucional, Verónica Undurraga, violencia en contra de las mujeres
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Breve historia de la evolución de la voz de la mujer en el entorno laboral
Periodistas, políticas, mujeres en podcast y medios de comunicación, mujeres publicando libros, artículos, rodando películas, series… Afortunadamente, (aunque no en todos los países ni culturas por igual) cada vez son más las mujeres que ocupan un lugar en el discurso público, El camino hasta llegar a puestos de liderazgo ha sido largo. Hemos querido dibujar en este artículo una breve historia de cómo la voz de las mujeres comenzó a ser escuchada en los ambientes profesionales. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, human-rights, Politics, Reflections, Sports, teachers
Tagged derecho al voto, Derechos de la Mujer, discurso público, Emmeline Pankhurst, Equidad de Género, Hepeating, Hillary Clinton, invisibilizada, mansplaining, masculinidad, Olympe de Gouges, patriarcado, perspectivo de género, poder, silenciada, voz
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#MaxineNweri: ‘I now know that anything is possible’ | From a women’s shelter to Cambridge University
As a woman with decades of business experience, a Cambridge graduate with a fulfilling career running my own company, alongside a joy-filled family life, few would guess from looking at me today how close I came to having a very different story. From the outside, my childhood was idyllic – my family lived in Nigeria until I was 11, before moving to London. I went to Sunday school at church every week and I aspired to be a doctor, just like my cousin. I envisaged having a beautiful house, a fulfilling career, a nice husband, kids, and, most of all, making my parents proud. Continue reading
Posted in Black History Month, book reviews, Cover Reveal, Culture, Education, Higher Education Teaching & Learning, human-rights, Interviews, Job Search, Reflections, teachers
Tagged author, Cambridge University, dream, education, entrepreneur, hope, London, Maxine Nweri, Nigeria, Obi, Oxford, speaker, The Future Is Greater
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Sylvia Eyzaguirre: Rescatemos la educación pública | Estudio UDD revela que el 40% de los nuevos SLEP presenta índices de Alta Complejidad para partir
El Ministerio de Educación presentó un proyecto de ley para perfeccionar los Servicios Locales de Educación (SLEP), que reemplazan a los municipios como sostenedores de la educación pública. Para evaluar este proyecto es importante tener presente, primero, los nudos críticos de la educación municipal y, segundo, los problemas que presentan los actuales SLEP. Continue reading
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