Mara’s Educational Blog- Personal Insights and Thoughts

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We Can Do It! It is different and a basic right for ALL!

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Education is a very mucky space with lots of passion, personal experience, political will all wrapped up. The bottomline is as a society we have expected that kids from nearly birth through at least 14 receive some formal education where they learn to read, write, think critically and do math. How this happens varies greatly. This collection of writings helps to capture my personal insights and beliefs formed in my 30 years of experience as an educator and 12 years experience as parent. Happy reading.

For a small, personal plug- I have started to have a play with Outschool.com and hosting my own courses for both kids and adults. Here is the link to my Outschool offerings for kids and reach out to learn more about my courses for adults. Feel free if there is something you are interested in that I can offer, I will.

Also I am launching a new Global-virtual secondary school program part of CTL Academy. Come join the revolution. Learn more here.

Latest Posts

Reflection on the Decay of the Social Fabric

It used to be our society received common inputs of current events spanning political, social and beyond- I have not so fond memories of reading the backside of the printed newspaper at the breakfast table when I was younger. My parents would get the LA Times and my dad would read one section, mom the…

Alas- Mastery Based Grading is Back!

We are in 2024 and just a couple of days ago- 2April24 editor Jeffrey R. Young published an article in EdSurge titled- Is it Time for a National Conversation about Eliminating Letter Grades. This topic has been part of my own career journey for the last 30 years- I remember a university professor in my…

Getting Smart Town Hall Reflection

Getting Smart hosted a town hall meeting on 19March focused on the theme of ‘What is it going to take to make learner-centered ecosystems.’ On the town hall were over 100 participants from across the US mostly, not sure if there were others besides me in Europe or elsewhere. The meeting was set up with…

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