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Relay Recommends
The Aurelian Cycle (Trilogy) by Rosaria Munda (2019-2022)
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Recommended by Sona Baker, Managing Director, Talent Operations, Talent Operations [An avid fantasy reader!]
Description/Review: The Aurelian Cycle (begins with Book 1: Fireborne) is a completed young adult fantasy trilogy. While set with the backdrop of dragons and a level of magic (and a touch of romance), this series explores themes of classism, power dynamics, loyalties, oppression, politics, and so much more. The nuance and layers to all the characters is incredible.
The story centers around two teenagers with very different backgrounds (opposing sides of a revolution) who ended up growing up together in friendship and becoming a part of the governing class of dragonriders. However, with a new revolution imminent, their opposing backgrounds make them both question which side is right/wrong, how to make decisions for large populations, what kinds of methods for protest and governance are right/wrong, and what it means to actually be "for the people". The entire trilogy is gripping from start to finish and I highly recommend this series to anyone who enjoys fantasy and/or real life themes in fiction reads.
If anyone decides to read this, please reach out to me to discuss! I absolutely loved this series.
Recommended Audience: Everyone (whether or not they work in education), Young adult (middle - high school)
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NYADI Recommends - Staff
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Title: Three Ways to Diversify Teacher Leadership
Recommended By: Relay GSE
Description/Review: “This resource highlights the issue that there is a lack of diversity in the teacher workforce, which also creates a lack of diversity in teacher leaders. In the article, 3 barriers are identified along with possible solutions. I am currently working on my dissertation that focuses on teacher leadership behaviors across generations, so I am always looking at articles related to teacher leadership. This article in particular resonates with me because I am passionate about teacher leadership, especially as a result of my experience as an administrator early in my career in an environment where there weren’t many people who looked like me.”
Recommended Audience: Teachers, School leaders, Those involved in teacher education
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Beru GSE108 / GSE 108 Relay (ISS) Glow Plug Control Unit Replace 12 21 7 800 156
Beru GSE108 / GSE 108 Relay ( ISS ) Glow Plug Control Unit Replaces 12 21 7 800 156BERU Glow Plug Control Unit The Glow Plug Control Unit is a key part of the flawless starting operation of a cold engine. It is fitted with a microcontroller to define information like the timing, the specific electrical current size and duration supplied to the electronically controlled Glow Plug. The advanced…
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On June 13th, there will be another Starlink Launch. On June 24th will be another Starlink launch. On August 30th, NASA will send up another crew to ISS via a different crew capsule from Spacex. And the giant high bay is in the progress of construction by a giant crane at the launch pad. The new giant high bay is set to be 81m as reported by Musk and other space nerds relaying his reply.
Starship sn 5 is set to be transferred to the launch pad in the coming days, perform tests such as a cryo test, static fires, and quite possibly make the hop that serial 4 was supposed to be with or without a nose. It could be armed with another mass simulator as serial number 4 was in the last leg of the testing to simulate having a nosecone.
Some people are speculating it won’t have the nose cone at all with one engine instead of three to continue the serial number 3 and or serial number 4 perform the 140m hop program that was set to be done when problems emerged such as human error (sn 3) and mechanical error that arose from the Quick Disconnect that resulted in leakage which destroyed serial number 20 raptor along with a portion of sn 4 with it and the launch stand that was replaced by launch stand serial number 2 and a new GSE.
If Serial Number 5 makes the hop this month as a flying lysol can instead of a silo then it means the beginning of a new era for humanity and spaceflight. It opens the door to people leaving in 9m starships or 18m starships in their chairs watching as the ship goes through layers of the atmosphere looking out the windows until all they see is the vastness of space that is black and unknown and strange with the moon in the background depending where they have launched. It will be the most awe inspiring moment in history that defines us boldly going into space to explore, to colonize, to study. A history making moment.
People may be watching science fiction movies or science fiction television shows about space on the way to Mars in space. It would be the most stunning turn of events watching movies about space while in space. It will be quite surreal to get adjusted to while in the middle of transport in the beginning of a new normal. For those who are part of the ride and use constantly to get from planet to planet or from moon to moon in the next 10, 20, 30 years; it will be part of their normal and taken for granted. But for those who lived a existence before this common day occurrence, it won’t be.
There will be those who still consider it unnatural and unsafe long after the safety certification's have been given to Spacex’s generation of starships and Earth to Earth transportation airliners and go through airplanes, cars, boats, cruise ships and think the whole fancy of going into space will go away just as it had before. But, this new change will make Earthlings multiplanetary and give people more living options and the opportunities to go into pace will be taken by those willing to go and it won’t go away easily.
The thought of this new kind of normal becoming available is enough to draw excitement and a anticipation on the future. Mars being colonized in a hundreds years to five hundred years depending how its done and if it is done properly by SpaceX with help from those telling it can do not what it cannot do. That is what it comes down to ultimately is doing what can be done such as the protests happening after the death of George Floyd heard around the world. A change is happening in civilization, it’s slow, but it is gratifying, and patience must be had in the wait while action is taken to ensure it happens.
Colonizing Mars was a dream that could be done in 2050 a decade ago with how NASA promised progress a decade ago about how they would get there and when they would start to get there. 2030 as a jumping point seemed so far away to start the first step in becoming a multiplanetary species but with Spacex, that future is closer that makes it worth the wait as it tests and learns and doesn’t scrap the plans to colonize Mars or delay it.
With the construction of the crane that constructs high bay, it feels the future is ultimately closer. Starship spacex is getting the high bay for the superheavy prepared and it only means that the future of colonizing Mars is even closer than it was before. The opportunity of entertainment filming on Mars showing the seed of civilization grow in the form of comedies and dramas showing the colonization process would be a massive milestone not just the first starship to launch with 100 people. And the incredible fact that this will happen is astounding.
The fact that humanity is teetering on the edge of the 21st century depicted in science fiction media is enough to be thrilled over not only in that history will be made and witnessed and seen live and kept for prosperity. It’s enough to visualize, hope for, anticipate for, knowing that the effort of SpaceX to colonize Mars cannot be stopped by budget, job programs, or by Congress. The effort to Mars, to colonizing the solar system, for Space is a lesson in trial and error that they improve on with every iteration on every step to a 18m starship carrying hundreds of people or thousand consisting of families to start a new life on a planet tougher than Earth and extremely dangerous.
But the effort will be well worth it, there will be struggles, difficulties, but they will make innovations and discoveries. It is strange to consider that one day people will be on a starship on a average day being sent out through the blue sky past the clouds even to know about that and not be in awe when it is a normal event as is crew dragon’s transporting of astronauts to the ISS. That is the new normal that should be looked forward.
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What We’re Watching: Dan Willingham on Reading Comprehension – by Education Next
What We’re Watching: Dan Willingham on Reading Comprehension – by Education Next
In this video, Dan Willingham explains why reading comprehension tests don’t actually test reading comprehension.
This presentation was made at the 2017 Educator Summit hosted by Relay GSE and Character Lab. More videos from the event are available here.
— Education Next
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What’s the deal with Camden Schools?
Since I started working in Camden on a campaign for education justice, I’ve been asked to explain what charter schools are, and why I fervently dislike (most) of them. Most recently, my sister’s friends joined us for chili after a day of sledding, and as I’m dousing my serving with Texas Pete’s, my mother invites me to explain to the youngsters (all juniors in college, on average) what I do. I give them the standard, “I’m a community organizer…” soliloquy, one I’ve rehearsed often, but my mother interrupts me to remind us that the mother of one of our visitor’s works in a charter school in Camden, Mastery. Pause. In Camden, Mastery operates Renaissance schools; I explain that they are a hybrid of charter and public schools, the best comparison I can conjure, and that they are taking over public schools in Camden.
There is some misunderstanding about nonprofits actually being allowed to make profits (uh, they are, that’s how they survive as businesses), and, further, about how a nonprofit could possibly be harmful. Frustrated, I flip to my favorite example of a charter school that I don’t dislike: in Amherst, MA, most children attend Amherst Regional Public Schools, but there is another option, a Chinese Language Immersion Charter School, situated amidst the traffic and fields and chain restaurants of scenic Route 9. The difference I describe is that the language immersion school in Amherst offers students and families the choice of an alternative education, but does not effectively harm the public school because it is not trying to masquerade as a traditional public school.
Flip back to Camden (by this point, I’ve given up on the conversation at my dinner table because it is of no use to argue with cocky college students), and the relationship is not so balanced. Camden only has six charter schools—not so bad, right? Perhaps, but what the New Jersey Department of Education will not tell you is that there are ten, soon to be fourteen, other schools in Camden that are managed by private, nonprofit charter corporations disguising themselves as traditional public schools. These institutions are Renaissance schools, aforementioned as the hybrid between charter and public schools. Don’t be fooled; the only “public” aspect of Renaissance schools are that they must accept all students within a catchment zone who apply; students from outside the catchment zone are subject to a lottery, like a traditional charter school. Outside of that requirement, they function like charter schools; they have independent boards, can hire teachers without state credentials, and often end up educating fewer special education students than neighboring public schools by way of “creaming.”
Renaissance schools, created by the Urban Hope Act of 2012, are New Jersey’s answer to the education crisis plaguing Camden; they function, purportedly, like public schools, but are managed by nonprofit charter management organizations (CMO). The Urban Hope Act limits the number of Renaissance school projects in any one district to four, but those four operators may manage more than one facility. In Camden, the three lucky winners thus far are KIPP, Mastery, and Uncommon Schools, so, hooray, there is room for one more. What could be so bad about these tried and true charter management corporations? Why shouldn’t we be happy that they’ve offered to relieve us the burden of being involved in our children’s educations?
Let’s start with KIPP. The Knowledge is Power Program was founded by two Teach for America alumni in 1994 in Houston, TX upon five principles: high expectations, choice and commitment, more time, power to lead and focus on results. We are off to a great start! Teach for America recruits recent college graduates to teach in poor, black and brown neighborhoods for two years minimum; TFA-ers are provided five weeks of training and thrust into communities they know nothing about, and then jet-off to higher-paying careers with a fancy, social justice-y line on their résumé. This post is about schools, not teachers though, so let me get back on track. Since its inception KIPP has expanded to 200 schools across the U.S., and receives funding from such notable foundations as the Walton Family Foundation, the Doris and Donald Fisher Fund, and, in Camden, the Norcross Family via their foundation and the Cooper Foundation. They began their stint in Camden first by taking over Lanning Square School, and have since absorbed J.G. Whittier Family School; their goal is to serve students K-12 in their downtown complex. But, KIPP is just one CMO with a foothold in Camden.
The other two are Mastery and Uncommon. I’ll work my way in, from Texas, to New York and finally to Philadelphia, so I’ll begin with Uncommon. The Uncommon Schools Network has a vague beginning; a nebulous group of pro-charter folks supported the creation of Newark’s North Star Academy in 1997, and eight years later, the Uncommon Schools Network was formalized and founded by James Verrilli and Norm Atkins, who currently chairs their Board. Verrilli now runs Newark’s Relay Graduate School of Education (GSE), a partnership program of Uncommon, KIPP and Achievement First that trains people to become instructors in charter schools. I purposely used words like “program,” “trains,” “people” and “instructors” because the GSE employs no professors of education and offers certification to the charter educators based on the charter curriculum and standards. Relay GSE is by no means a traditional graduate school of education, but already it has been embraced by nine states.
In addition to using “alternative” teacher certification methods, Uncommon also uses alternative names for its schools; most do not actually bear the organization’s designation, but rather an innocuous, prestigious title. In Newark, they are North Star Academy and there are currently ten North Star Academies; the same is true in Camden. Uncommon currently operates one school, Camden Prep, with plans to open another school on Haddon Avenue in September 2017 to serve 800 students K-8. My belief is that by giving their institutions neutral, relatable names Uncommon is hoping to establish itself as something as close to a traditional neighborhood public school as it can get.
The third CMO in Camden is Mastery, a Philadelphia-based charter founded in 2001 as High Tech High. A year later, it became Mastery Charter Schools and now operates 21 schools, including five in Camden. What makes Mastery unique is that it offers three types of school management: charter, turnaround and renaissance. There seems to be little difference between the turnaround and renaissance models; what I’ve discerned is that the turnaround initiative, which is a Philadelphia model, is focused on miserably failing schools, while the renaissance model, which we have here in Camden, simply takes over any school the district allows. Recently, Mastery has been struggling with its pedagogy; its test scores plummeted in 2014, though they have since made modest improvements. The drop was attributed to the organization’s softening of its strict “no excuses” model, which was done in response to alumni calls for better college preparation. Since 2014, they’ve reinstated some of the strict disciplinary model that defined them for fifteen years, and things are starting to improve.
But that’s just on paper. When I talk with parents and students of Mastery’s Camden schools, I hear about physical discipline of elementary school students, including arm-twisting, and about lack of support for special education students. It is no surprise that a CMO school would make every subtle attempt to push special education students out to maintain higher scores, but accounts of physical restraint and discipline are abhorrent. Mastery already has a foothold in one of Camden’s poorest neighborhoods, Pyne Poynt, as well as in neighboring Cooper’s Poynt and East Camden, and they are constructing a new K-8 facility to serve 750 students in Cramer Hill.
As I explained earlier, not all charter schools are nefarious, blood-sucking, profit-machines, but the renaissance operators in Camden are certainly causing a stir snatching up all the neighborhood schools. The point of this post was to unmask the CMOs in Camden, and of course weave my feelings throughout. I do not support charter expansion in Camden, or anywhere else for that matter. I do support traditional public education, neighborhood schools, strong communities, and people over profits; hopefully that’s what shines through here.
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Relay Recommends!
Pilu of the Woods by Mai K. Nguyen (2019)
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Recommended by Yeamen Ali, Bursar Manager, Finance Team
Review: This book is great for everyone! Especially if you need a break from reality but still learn on the way. This book is about this child named Willow who goes on this emotional journey after an argument at home and running away to the woods. Along the way of this emotional journey, Willow meets Pilu in the woods who happens to be lost and can't seem to find her way home. Willow offers to help and realizes that Pilu and her have a lot in common.
I recommend this book because it talks about different emotions and what ways it can evolve yet can be maintained while telling a simple and sweet story. When I first read this, I didn't expect it to be deep and have feelings involved, I thought it was just a simple story helping me escape reality for a short period of time. This book is great for starting discussions regarding feelings and strong emotions.
Recommended Audience: Everyone (whether or not they work in education)
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Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success by Marc Brackett (2019)
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Recommended by Shannon Justice, Professor of Clinical Practice, Field Experience - IL, Chicago
Description/Review: I first saw Marc Brackett speak at a conference in 2018 where he introduced us to the tools that the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence had developed including RULER, which is an evidence-based, systemic approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted widely in US schools. I'm still looking back at the notes from this conference that I saved on my phone to this day! Brackett's work is focused on teaching kids (and adults) to recognize and name their emotions (you'd think everyone is good at this, but as he assures us, we're not all great at it), and then to choose appropriate strategies for managing these emotions. This book describes his work and tells his own very personal story of why this work matters to him. He's a hilarious, engaging and real speaker, and his personality comes through in the book as well as his deep knowledge of this topic. Recommended for anyone who has emotions or spends time with someone who has them ;)
Recommended Audience: Teachers, School leaders, Those involved in teacher education, Everyone (whether or not they work in education)
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September Interesting Links
If you are interested in digital storytelling tools? Knight Lab creates easy-to-use tools that can help you tell better stories! Check out their tools here including Storyline, Timeline, and Storymap.
September 8th is International Literacy Day! This year the theme, Transforming Literacy Learning Spaces, offers an opportunity to rethink the fundamental importance of literacy learning spaces to build resilience and ensure quality, equitable, and inclusive education for all.
Read this conceptual note from UNESCO to learn more.
September 15th to October 15th is National Hispanic Heritage Month. Read more at the official site, and access resources for teachers.
The News Literacy Project is a nonpartisan education nonprofit working to build a national movement to advance the practice of news literacy. September starts up their newsletter, so visit their site to learn more and access resources for educators.
Ready your Reading lists! LitHub has recommendations for Five Short Story Collections, Eight Books That Map Worlds Not Quite Like Ours, or the layered world of Metafiction.
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Relay Recommends!
Courageous Conversations About Race by Glenn E. Singleton [2022]
Recommended by Annie Hoffman, Registrar, Student Affairs & Student Services
Description/Review: Courageous Conversations About Race, 3rd Edition aligns with the DEI/A training that I have participated in at Relay and goes beyond this training. I have appreciated being able to come back to this time and again as I read through the chapters to learn/relearn/practice. I find the reflections/activities helpful, and the book helps me reconsider my personal racial equity purpose.
Discussion Questions: One thing that I love about the book is that each chapter has discussion questions/activities! You should use those :)
Recommended Audience: Teachers, School leaders, Those involved in teacher education.
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August Interesting Links!
If you've used ChatGPT you may have noticed it tends to write like an overzealous Wikipedia entry. In her essay, writer and lecturer Laura Hartenberger examines What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing.
Have you been horrified and scared by recent statements that slavery had benefits for the people enslaved? You are no alone! Learning for Justice is here with their resource Talking to Children About the History of Slavery in the United States.
LGBTQ+ in STEM. This short article by Misha Kidambi explores "the academic papers making the biggest impact in the field of LGBTQ+ inclusivity in STEM in recent years."
Time to update your reading lists! Book Riot has an A-Z Alphabet of Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors of Color.
Or check out Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023, Part Two, for a "small" collection of 166 titles still to be released in 2023.
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Relay Recommends!
Microsoft Learn by Microsoft [Online Training]
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Recommended by Jonathan Basiago, Director, Data Engineering, Data & Research
Description/Review: Microsoft Learn is a free learning platform that relates to all of Microsoft's products. I find it is useful resource for building technical knowledge and learning about different offerings from Microsoft.
Under Training > Educator Center and Training > Student Hub there are many resources for Students and Teachers alike for expanding technical learning and bringing technology into the classroom.
Recommended Audience: K-12 Students, Teachers, School leaders, Those involved in teacher education, Everyone (whether or not they work in education)
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May Interesting Links!
This month is Asian American & Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month! You can find more information, as well as teaching resources, videos, exhibits, and collections here; or, if you've already read your way through the recommendations above, try some this list from Book Riot or this one from LitHub!
May is also Jewish American Heritage Month, which you can learn more about here! You can explore digitized archival collections here, or check out some book lists here from Book Riot and here from the Jewish Book Council.
Are you looking to "Embracing the power of AI to make schools more human"? What about an "AI in Education Fellowship"? Uncharted AI is forging a new path to explore how AI can support educators and not become some dystopian nightmare. Learn about their work and sign up for their newsletter here, and explore their Fall AI Fellowship here. (Thanks to Elle for the tip!)
Audiobooks are more than just hearing a good book. The narrator and their performance is crucial to a good audiobook, so where can you find audiobook reviews? Look no further than AudioFile! They review audiobooks and podcasts to recommend "top-notch performances and dynamic listening experiences". They also have free audiobooks all summer for teens!
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