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Jeffrey Benson's Blog: Teenage Boys: How to Support Your Moms, Sisters, and Girlfriends
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Friday, December 26, 2014. Teenage Boys: How to Support Your Moms, Sisters, and Girlfriends. Teenage Boys: How to Support Your Moms, Sisters, and Girlfriends. Introduction: Co-writing credit for this article belongs to Pamela Clark. I have never met her. I read her article, "35 Practical Tools for Men to Further Feminist Revolution." I wished for there to be a parallel article that would be accessible to teenagers. I found Pamela Clark's email and told her my intentions to re-work her. 4 Give women space.
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Jeffrey Benson's Blog: Principals: Intentions and Questions at Staff Meetings
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Saturday, November 1, 2014. Principals: Intentions and Questions at Staff Meetings. Principals: Intentions and Questions at Staff Meetings. Here is one protocol to raise staff reactions to a higher level of communication. When you open the floor up for commentary and questions after airing a proposal, ask people to preface their remarks with one of these 4 options:. 8220; I love this idea, and…”. 8220; I am in favor of the idea, and I have a concern about a detail.”. 8220;I do not like this plan at all.
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Jeffrey Benson's Blog: November 2014
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Saturday, November 1, 2014. Principals: Intentions and Questions at Staff Meetings. Principals: Intentions and Questions at Staff Meetings. Here is one protocol to raise staff reactions to a higher level of communication. When you open the floor up for commentary and questions after airing a proposal, ask people to preface their remarks with one of these 4 options:. 8220; I love this idea, and…”. 8220; I am in favor of the idea, and I have a concern about a detail.”. 8220;I do not like this plan at all.
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Jeffrey Benson's Blog: Radical Empathy
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Sunday, September 14, 2014. My friend is a family therapist. She is intrigued by the ways all the people in a big family work together, given the innumerable conflicts in such a group. She encourages as many family members as possible to come to sessions, so she can see them in action. The more family members in the room, the more likely that they will behave in their typical fashions. 8230;” It means our fates are tied to one another, and. We can join hands in taking action. Radical empathy asks that yo...
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Jeffrey Benson's Blog: December 2014
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Friday, December 26, 2014. Teenage Boys: How to Support Your Moms, Sisters, and Girlfriends. Teenage Boys: How to Support Your Moms, Sisters, and Girlfriends. Introduction: Co-writing credit for this article belongs to Pamela Clark. I have never met her. I read her article, "35 Practical Tools for Men to Further Feminist Revolution." I wished for there to be a parallel article that would be accessible to teenagers. I found Pamela Clark's email and told her my intentions to re-work her. 4 Give women space.
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Jeffrey Benson's Blog: Tenure is a Management Issue
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Monday, June 16, 2014. Tenure is a Management Issue. Picture a school system with hundreds of teachers. Some of the teachers have been with the system long enough to be eligible for a special benefit: job security (tenure), upon completing 24-60 months of high quality work. It’s a critical threshold to achieve, because teachers who cannot demonstrate in all those months that they are quality workers are immediately fired. The school administrator becomes angry at Sandy. “If Sandy were really a ...The dep...
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Jeffrey Benson's Blog: September 2014
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Friday, September 26, 2014. Why Atheists Love the Common Core. 8220;Why Atheists Love the Common Core”. And why we all must keep church and state separated. That the sun stood still in the sky during the Battle of Jericho? That burning bushes don’t consume the material that is burning, and that the bush can talk? That wine can turn into blood? Sunday, September 14, 2014. Students, teachers, staff, administrators, parents- we really are all in it together, just like the family members squeezing into the c...
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Jeffrey Benson's Blog: February 2014
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Saturday, February 22, 2014. From the introduction to "Hanging In". I have learned so much from working with our traumatized, neglected, and remarkably alive students and with their teachers. What I learn, the gift to me, is how. Student are coming to understand. Schools That Work and Work and Work. This is why standardized tests are so important! Once you have enough kids in a class that competing for grades and the teacher’s attention is an important skill (which is happening already in most scho...
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Jeffrey Benson's Blog: July 2014
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Friday, July 25, 2014. Or the love of God, of your children, and of the civilization to which. You belong, cease this madness. You have a duty not just to the. Generation of the present—you have a duty to civilization's past,. Which you threaten to render meaningless, and to its future, which you. Threaten to render nonexistent. You are mortal men. You are capable of. Error You have no right to hold in your hands—there is no one wise or. Incurring for all of us.". 8212; George F. Kennan. When I was finis...
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Jeffrey Benson's Blog: Why Atheists Love the Common Core
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Friday, September 26, 2014. Why Atheists Love the Common Core. 8220;Why Atheists Love the Common Core”. And why we all must keep church and state separated. That the sun stood still in the sky during the Battle of Jericho? That burning bushes don’t consume the material that is burning, and that the bush can talk? That wine can turn into blood? September 30, 2014 at 10:40 PM. Wouldnt it be infinitely more interesting to consider the bible as a historical text, a vehicle of cultural truths (or Truth) trans...
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