Very excited to start off the school year by reading aloud The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman! The book has been selected as the Global Read Aloud book for middle school. #GRABridge

I am very excited to have accepted a 5th grade teaching position at Moorsbridge Elementary in Portage, MI!

@NikkiDelkBarnes Jamie D. Gravell, PhD Awesome! Thanks!

The history of race and racism, and honest eval of current situation, should be one of the main subjects of an American history curriculum.

The use of homophobic slurs in sports: It’s for the athletes’ own theedadvocate.org/?p=5393 #athletes #bullying

This is a great article! x.com/lynch39083/sta…

Common Core math, explained in 3 minutes bit.ly/1JsGfXg

I'm not sure what Arne Duncan's resignation means politically, but I am 99% sure his successor will be worse than him at basketball.

Learning a lot Responsive Classroom Workshop in Chicago!

Hi I'm Jake. I'm a 5th grade teacher (all subjects) in Portage, MI. Social Studies major. #sschat

A1 I'm a 1st yr T w/o much time for SS. I had Ss interpret famous quotes and watched Dream speech pausing often to discuss. #sschat

A2 By studying statistics and searching for quotes in order to teach facts and perspectives rather than my own opinions #sschat

Great weekend reading: Money, race and school success: How does your district do? nyti.ms/1pRHsT8

LRT is a very interesting read. It would be very interesting to compare that data to other countries 2 see if US edu is especially unequal.