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Why schools need conservatives AND progressives
I’m tired of the culture wars. I’d rather focus on what unites us, rather than what divides us. After a year of grappling with NZ education, I’ve come to appreciate the value of disagreement, the value of opposing points of view Why we need Conservatives Conservatives conserve. They preserve. They value tradition and like things…
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Keeping the “culture wars” out of the classroom
I’ve just watched this brilliant video by Russell Howard about how the culture wars are a bunch of bollocks stirred up by the media to profit from outrage. I admit, I’m guilty of falling into YouTube clickbait rabbit holes. Since returning to New Zealand at the start of this year, after 11 years in Japan,…
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Welcome to Teacher Geeks
My name is Travis Dixon and I’m a proud teacher geek! I’ve started this blog to share my ideas and tips that work for me in my classroom. I hope you’ll find something here that will make I also have a YouTube Channel – check it out here.
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About Travis
“I’ll just step over to Green Gables after tea and find out from Marilla where he’s gone and why,” the worthy woman finally concluded. “He doesn’t generally go to town this time of year and he never visits; if he’d run out of turnip seed he wouldn’t dress up and take the buggy to go…
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Fossils
She was sitting there one afternoon in early June. The sun was coming in at the window warm and bright; the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees.
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Etcetera
Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place.
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