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Jan 24

Healthy Discussing

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
January 24, 2013

After starting the school year with student-led assemblies that didn’t include awards or students of the month, I thought change was upon my school. I wrote a post about how cool it was. That post was quickly followed by another, I Celebrated Too Soon, because right after publishing the celebratory post we had a faculty …

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Feb 26

Not Against Competition

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News, Grades & HW
February 26, 2012

I’ve written some posts about awards not being very useful when used as reward and punishment. I’ve written some posts about grades not being very useful when used as reward and punishment. I try to create an environment in my classroom where kids aren’t competing for points or an A but are instead learning and …