This is the final column in the series I’ve been writing with Melea Nalli, Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning, about the Portland Public Schools’ seven Core Beliefs about Learning. To recap, our first six Learning Beliefs are: • All learners can rise to high expectations. • Learners have different strengths, needs and starting points, based on who they are and what they’ve experienced. They learn in different ways and time frames. • Academics, work habits, and social-emotional skills are equally important in school and in life. • Students can learn better when they are empowered and feel capable. • Learning in diverse groups prepares students to thrive in an increasingly diverse, complex, and connected world. • Practicing and learning from mistakes are natural and necessary parts of the learning process. We now turn our focus to our seventh belief, that belonging, engagement, and joy help a learner achieve. This … [Read more...] about Superintendent’s Notebook: Belonging, engagement, joy key to successful learning
Opinion
Auburn. Basketball. SEC champs. Madness marches on
This is an opinion cartoon.Congratulations, SEC tournament-winning Auburn basketball Tigers. You are living, winning proof that SEC basketball is a force to be reckoned with again. The unbelievable, unlikely rise of Auburn basketball Surrounded by an arena full of Tennessee fans, Bruce Pearl raised the SEC tournament championship trophy on Sunday in Nashville for the Auburn Tigers. As a born and raised Kentucky basketball fan, I’m tickled to death with the overall strength and balance of power in the SEC the last couple of years. And it’s only going to get better. SEC basketball is no longer SEC football’s timid, lanky cousin. The league is fueled with talent and powered by a cast of elite-level coaches. SEC basketball: It's ALIVE It's March Madness and the SEC has never been so March Bad-ass. I’ve never been a big Bruce Pearl fan (mostly because of his crooked Tennessee years), but he’s a charismatic and perfect fit for Auburn. He’s turned … [Read more...] about Auburn. Basketball. SEC champs. Madness marches on
Johnson: Goodloe Sutton’s hate reverberates across the globe, tragically
We know this: If something sounds too good to be true, you can bet your favorite that’s exactly what it is. Not true. At least not for long.We know this.Still, we wanted to believe Goodloe Sutton was gone. We wanted to believe the 80-year-old who wrote a wretched editorial saying he’d like to see the Ku Klux Klan “ride again” had galloped into the West Alabama sunset. We wanted to believe the man who owned and published a small, once-reputable newspaper in Marengo County, the Democrat-Reporter, had given up the helm just days after his hateful, written rant rekindled the ugliest crevasses of racism our state simply cannot shed.Then, we really wanted to believe this—that he was replaced by a black woman, Elecia R. Dexter, an African-American human resources professional whose father was born in the predominantly black county.It even made us chuckle a bit. It was the essence of karma—of chickens coming home to, well, fry the cook.Of course, it was too … [Read more...] about Johnson: Goodloe Sutton’s hate reverberates across the globe, tragically
Syracuse Jews stand with Muslims after New Zealand attack (Your letters)
To the Editor:We write as members of Jewish communities in the Syracuse area to express our horror and sorrow at the news from Christchurch, New Zealand. At least 49 Muslims at prayer for Jumaa, the Friday communal service, were murdered in a terrorist act by a white supremacist. This devastating act of violence and loss of precious lives is profoundly shocking, and yet, also an echo of too many similar acts. Indeed, as we approach the Jewish festival of Purim, we remember that 25 years ago on Purim morning in 1994, Baruch Goldstein took a machine gun into the mosque at the Tomb of Abraham in Israel – the burial-site of the forefather of both Judaism and Islam -- and murdered 29 Muslims prostrate in prayer. And we remember other mass murders in places of worship that are recent and close to home, like the Charleston Emanuel AME Church shooting of African-Americans in 2015 and the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooting of Jews in 2018, both carried out by men with white … [Read more...] about Syracuse Jews stand with Muslims after New Zealand attack (Your letters)
Editorial cartoons for the week of March 18
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