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Kelly Gallagher

Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.

Kids, Real, Struggle, Teach, Teacher, Writing

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I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

Reader, Reading, Simply, Teaching

Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.

Deeply, Given, Ideas, Interesting, Opportunity

Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?

Book, Commitment, Interact, Place, School, Schools

Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.

Cover, Curiosity, Extinguish, Material, Materials, Want

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.

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Judy Grahn

The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

Attitude, Continues, Gay, Say, Seeing, Sex

Robert Hass

Robert Hass

What Simone Weil said politics has meant all along, which means that you fight for 11 percent, 12 percent, 13 percent, that you avoid golden-age thinking and romantic melancholy and you just keep pushing.

Fight, Fighting, Mean, Romantic, Thinking

Jürgen Moltmann

Jürgen Moltmann

Christ's own 'God-forsaken-ness' on the cross showed me where God is present where God had been present in those nights of deaths in the fire storms in Hamburg and where God would be present in my future whatever may come.

Night, Fire, Storm, Present, Cross, Nights

Errico Malatesta

Errico Malatesta

The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it's principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and the gaoler - to whom must be invariably added the trader in lies, be he priest of schoolmaster, remunerated or protected by the government to enslave minds and make them docilely accept the yoke.

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Pope Francis

Pope Francis

How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.

Good, Lord, Lukewarm, Superficial