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Somewhere in an elementary school today- A six year old stretched face first in the soft green grass… a teacher sat down next to him, to talk him into starting the school day.

In an elementary school near you today… a six year old rescued a bug and took it outside.

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Spotted in a high school near you this week- a kid carrying, perfectly, an open, red, coffee mug, complete with coffee, to class. No cover, no go-cup. Just a classic. #skills

Now stored in Rabbit Hole folder of my Zotero…

Heard in a middle school this week: “if this makes 0.0% sense to you today, don’t worry; I’ll explain it tomorrow in a new way so that you can learn it.”

This seems made for a children’s book.

A kid-watching assessment: 15 minutes to build a village with specialized blocks w/results in 30 or less: IQ, social-emotional needs, learning needs. They’re using it in Europe- educators, psychologists, counselors: Colorado this November, sign up now for training #EduSky

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MOMENTS AGO: Trump visits the Federal Reserve with Chair Jerome Powell.

Trump has tried to pressure Powell to lower interest rates, and the president and top administration officials have criticized him over the cost of the building renovations. MSNBC's Vaughn Hillyard reports the latest.

A nonverbal assessment for kids, that takes 15 minutes & yields a wealth of information on their thinking, abilities, and needs. It’s now coming to Colorado Springs - training & kit to give it- for educators and psychologists- only 2nd time available in the U.S. worldgamelab.com/colorado/

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Life without books is like an unsharpened pencil... It has no point.

Alaskan whaling captains score special tax cut in GOP megabill A big boost in a deduction for some whalers' expenses would benefit subsistence hunters.

Call her Ishmael. New version of Senate BBB sneaks in a new tax break for...whale-boat captains.
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Still not a fan of sprinkles, but always a fan of kid chefs

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It hurts to watch and we can’t afford to look away. A mother of six girls showed up at her routine hearing, and was loaded up, with her husband helpless and in tears nearby.

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Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

What?!?! The EPA has drafted a plan to eliminate all pollution controls from coal and gas-fired power plants. The agency claims these plants “do not contribute significantly” to dangerous pollution or climate change, arguing their emissions are a small and declining share of global totals.

Tell Congress: Oppose the Federal Concealed Carry Mandate This legislation puts the safety of our communities at risk.

Our lawmakers should be focused on passing policies that keep us safe—but instead, they're considering legislation that would gut our life-saving gun laws. I just sent a message urging my lawmakers to oppose it: etwn.us/3DGVCCY @Everytown

House Republicans are now targeting federal workers’ retirement benefits to help fund their massive tax cuts. Last week, the House Oversight Committee approved a plan to slash $50 billion from the retirement system over the next decade by changing

Some supplements for language include understanding the social context of the stories, nuance, broad phonetic and phonemic awareness to supplement for strong visual memory - sometimes connected to autism

So some can “word call” but not analyze and translate the story, called hyperlexia. It just means 1) all kids need early, rich, enjoyable exposure to reading 2) some are fully gifted readers who need advanced, opportunities 3) a few need advanced word recognition opportunities with supplements

Babies mimic and model ❤️ and some of them turnout to have unusually wired brains who absorb the code of reading and can fully read- decode, understand, question, comunícate nuance in the text- well before school, with giftedness. Some can memorize and retain the sounds but do not have comprehension

Why is it up to @rollingstone.com to write the most honest and direct headlines?

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This is petty. The FBI has reassigned several agents simply for being photographed kneeling in solidarity with racial justice protesters in D.C. during the 2020 demonstrations after George Floyd’s murder.