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Some of ya'll may remember the game, but not the amazing commercial. As someone who's obsessed with communication and language, one of my classroom staples has always been the physical game Taboo! The premise is simple. Get your teammates to guess a word or concept, but you cannot say any of the words on the card you've drawn. It's always a fun watch because you have to instantly watch someone rethink how to explain a word or phrase without using the most commonly associated

Created with Nano Banana We are in the middle of our 2nd day back from Spring Break, and getting the kids to re-engage is a struggle. How do we take them from 9 days of freedom and lock them back into the rigors and routines of a school day? If my students spent any part of their break as I did, I had plenty of lengthy doomscrolling sessions on social media, because the algorithm is locked into what my brain craves. Even if you're not dealing with the post-vacation slump, we'

On Monday, we explored the concept of the unessay . In short, the unessay is an assignment concept forwarded by   Daniel Paul O'Donnell in 2012 . O'Donnell used unessays to question the overall role that formalized academic essays had played in education throughout the history of the system. Specifically, he argued that traditional essays are a "static and rule-bound monster" that forces students to comply rather than explore and showcase their intellectual passions. The g