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Apr 29
5 min

A Delicate Dance with Data

Data can be incredibly useful. It’s helped us track COVID, create vaccines, and gauge our safety as vaccination rates rise. It can help...

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Apr 29
5 min

A Delicate Dance with Data

Data can be incredibly useful. It’s helped us track COVID, create vaccines, and gauge our safety as vaccination rates rise. It can help...

Mar 17
2 min

Five Tips for a Hybrid Spring

Spring has sprung, and it’s not just daffodils that are blooming. At 100 East End, cameras have popped up in every classroom, and newly...

Feb 22
4 min

Cultivating Collaboration

There’s group work and then there’s collaboration. Group work is the distribution of a task to more than one set of hands. Think ants...

Jan 10
4 min

Resolution 2021: More Play!

If gratitude is the mother of all virtues, perhaps play is the mother of all cognitive processes. Play frees us from restrictions that...

Dec 2, 2020
4 min

Combating Crisis with Community

Prior to 2020, our students thrived despite turmoil: Superstorm Sandy, the Baltimore riots, mass shootings in Las Vegas and Florida. They...

Nov 11, 2020
4 min

Engagement = Audience

Imagine you’re 15. You’ve been at home for eight months. You’ve got a budding romance that absorbs you. When you’re daydreaming, your...

Nov 1, 2020
3 min

Decoding Discrimination

As we rely more and more on digital material and virtual interactions, how can we help our students (and ourselves) be more critical of...

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Technically, I'm Kelly Hammond. History 7 teacher, MS Humanities Department Chair, and Director of Digital Pedagogy. But really, the blog is About Us: the undaunted teaching team at Chapin.

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A unflinching look into how pervasively racial injustice is built into technology, and some suggestions on how we can work against it.