patrick stewart recently defended his dissertation at the university of british columbia what was unusual? he used almost no punctuation which makes me wonder- is punctuation really necessary? According to the Language Log linguistics blog, Stewart wrote the dissertation, which…
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Structures for Safety, Structures for Learning (Part II)
As I noted in Part I of this post, Debbie Zacarian recently challenged us to support “ELs Living With Trauma, Violence, and Chronic Stress by implementing routine structures and an empathetic approach. Protocols and structures like the ones I described…
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Structures for Safety, Structures for Learning (Part I)
“We woke to the sound of guns.” That’s how one of my students started a personal narrative in which she described getting fired on by rebel soldiers while she was living in a refugee camp in the Congo. If you’ve…
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