Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/12/2019

• Gender Spectrum | Gender Spectrum provides education, training and support to help create a gender sensitive and inclusive environment for children of all ages.

  tags: gender LGBTQ diversity inclusivity DEI

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/11/2019

• How To Manage Emotions At Work: Life Kit : NPR

  • Whoever you're giving feedback to, make it specific, make it actionable. That shows you care about helping someone evolve and helping them level up.
  • Venting is useful for a small period of time, if you're doing it to someone you trust.
  • If you're feeling a really strong emotion, you sometimes just need to calm down because you're not in a rational state [to] figure out what you want to do next. [Venting] becomes negative and actually detrimental to your own success when it turns into rumination, which is just venting to vent.

  • What other ways do you recommend working with a coworker that kind of just rubs you the wrong way?

    Mollie West Duffy: One of them is to remember that they might have something going on you don't know about.

  • As much as you can, limit exposure to this person. Put a bubble around yourself.
  • When you're so invested in your job, that's when a co-worker that maybe drives you a little batty becomes this huge problem because work is everything to you. Just taking the time to invest in non-work things can be a really valuable way to come back to the office the next day with a little more distance.

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 11/16/2019

• Inside the Subtle Marketing Shift That Changed Roomba's Fortunes

  • “We very quickly learned that when you try to convince the consumer by starting the dialogue with the technology, you certainly attract some early adopters who are technically oriented,” Brown says of the initial approach, “but you may be missing the vast majority of consumers who are much more interested in hearing about the benefit.”
  • winning converts wasn’t about changing the product; it was about recalibrating expectations.

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 10/25/2019

• Workbench Lesson

  tags: lesson plans

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 09/17/2019

• Here’s my challenge to white parents this school year

  • We had to tell him that his behaviour had to be twice as good as his classmates’. That he had to stand extra still when it was time to line up to go out for recess and to be sure not to get too excited in class. When other kids bothered him, he should always just ignore them and never engage. Essentially, to never defend himself or raise his voice, because his teacher may misinterpret his behaviour as threatening. We had to teach him to police his behaviour first, before others had the opportunity to do so. We had to teach him the realities of being Black.

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