Dr Melissa Braaten

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Her series of books about women scientists in America are among the most compelling and important that I’ve read as an academic. And she had to grind throughout her whole life to write them. May she now rest.

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One of the really special things about Sesame Street was always these little art films that were less about teaching a specific thing than they were about instilling a sort of meditative sense of wonder at how the world works.

First class I took as a doctoral student was with Dr Sandra Harding. She set me on a path and shaped who I am as a scholar and human. Her stories of her own doctoral studies brought important perspective that I think of often.

Please. And stop using AI to generate images. Just dump a water bottle out and run your hair dryer for 15 minutes. 🫠

Whew, I needed this. Thank you to @hschweingruber.bsky.social for sharing it and for all that you are doing right now.

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.

Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.

Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

Great resources coming from TJ McKenna and Eve Manz!

During a recent interview with HEP, @mbraaten.bsky.social delved into why she, Mark Windschitl, and Jessica Thompson wrote their bestselling book, AMBITIOUS SCIENCE TEACHING. Watch a clip from this discussion here: https://bit.ly/3P80KSN

HEP author Jessica Thompson spoke to us about how educators and leaders are applying AMBITIOUS SCIENCE TEACHING to their work. Learn more about this book, which she co-wrote with Mark Windschitl and @mbraaten.bsky.social, in this video clip: https://bit.ly/4gf1HVf

During a recent conversation with us, HEP author Mark Windschitl spoke about takeaways from his bestselling book, AMBITIOUS SCIENCE TEACHING, which he co-wrote with Jessica Thompson and @mbraaten.bsky.social. Watch a clip from this interview here: https://bit.ly/4gJfsLw

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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

We’re lucky to be in a community where these aren’t prohibited or controversial ideas for public school teaching. And yet, that’s still the main source of worry for new teachers. Again, activist teachers who do this everyday are here to say (with their whole chest): It’s possible!

This is my final class with student teachers. They teach for one more semester in their K-5 sites. Their goal today is to commit to a specific climate education effort for their upcoming semester and to combine it with youth civic action. Their activist mentors are there to push and help.

This intergenerational mentoring has been powerful. I’m seeing a rupture of a few presumptions held by student teachers: 1) These seasoned teachers are radical educators, not stuck in old ways. 2) Civic action and climate education can happen with little kids; it’s not too controversial.

Local climate activist retired teachers join our undergrad elementary teacher ed classes again this week. We’ve been studying what they do with local K-5 classrooms to support kids’ climate action and civic engagement. Now it’s time for our student teachers to commit to goals for next semester.

This is great news! Thanks for curating this important section!

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing. Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.

They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.

The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

Happy Friday all my teacher friends!! You made it!!

Welcome new friends! I post about my research with teachers and community members who are finding ways to act for climate justice through education and civic engagement. I live and work in Colorado where such work is possible and valued.

Looking West from the CU Boulder campus toward the Flatirons. We are standing in a green grassy area lined with conifers and enjoying the early autumn sunshine.

Since there are few opportunities to teach science in K-5 schools in the U.S., my undergrads are practicing facilitating each other’s science experiences. We’re figuring out how beavers change waterways and ecosystems. Messy stream table work great outdoors so this is my classroom today!

Thanks! I’m just getting started so haven’t talked to anyone yet. I appreciate the connections!

First finding comes from a systematic look at all of the public-facing documents and media from a school district aiming to create and enact climate action policies. Imprecise terms might be a starting point for moving from sentiments to actions. Conceptual clarity is always worthwhile.

Whoa! This is so great!

You know what day it is

OpenAI hosting university presidents to pitch enterprise contracts. Google spending $25M to, in part, train K-12 teachers to use AI.

Resharing my paper arguing educators and students should learn against and about GAI while developing a Luddite praxis: repository.isls.org/bitstream/1/...

Thank you! I feel very alone in this standpoint.

Later in the evening I got a message from one of the climate activist teachers. She sent a photo with half a dozen of the new teachers who had all showed up at a local climate action event. I’m feeling hopeful about the power of some intergenerational teacher-activist mentoring. Stay tuned!