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Letter

Sent Friday, July 9, 2010:

Dear Smucker’s,

Please put less peanut butter in your Uncrustables. Please put in more jelly than peanut butter. It would also be nice if you made them bigger.

As a class at Manual Arts High School, we think it’s unfair that the Uncrustable was not what we expected. Because it is called an Uncrustable we didn’t think it would have crust. However, as you can see in this picture it has crust! We call this false advertising. Smuckers, you are a liar. Bring us more food.

We would like other flavors. What if you took out the peanut butter and put in honey or strawberry instead?

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,

Mr. Garcia’s Advisory Class

[Any response will be posted here. Real updates also coming soon]

2010 07 10 antero Manual Arts
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QFTB #12: Loading

- It’s not done loading yet?

- It’s gotta take time, we’re at Manual Arts not some suburban school.

2010 05 24 antero Manual Arts
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Discussing Teacher Quality

If you’re already going to be at UCLA for the Paulo Freire conference on Saturday afternoon, consider also checking out this morning workshop on teacher quality. I will be speaking on the morning panel about my experiences with innovative teacher assessment at Manual Arts.

2010 05 21 antero education Comments (0) Permalink

Immortality, Vampire Novels: What is Travis Teaching?

2010 05 20 antero Manual Arts
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“Consequent Confidence” And The Books Our Kids Read

“Social hegemony [as] … spontaneous’ consent given by the great masses of the population to the general direction imposed on social life by the dominant fundamental group; this consent is ‘historically’ caused by the prestige (and consequent confidence) which the dominant group enjoys because of its position and function in the world of production.” – Antonio Gramsci

2010 05 20 antero Manual Arts
Why We Can't Get It Right
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Paulo Freire Institute Conference

Just a quick note that I’ll be co-presenting at the California Association of Freirian Educators conference this saturday.

Our session on Saturday is called “Action, Interaction, and Reflection: Meaningful Insight Through Participatory Interventions.” Kate Beaudet, Cyrene St. Amant and I will be sharing our initial work around utilizing Freire’s codifications in K-12 classrooms.

More information about the conference can be found here.

2010 05 20 antero education Comments (1) Permalink

Thinking about Wabi-Sabi and Digital Youth Participation

First he raked until the grounds were spotless. Then, in a gesture pregnant with wabi-sabi overtones, he shook a tree trunk, causing a few leaves to fall. Wabi-sabi, as evidenced here, is clean but never too clean or sterile. (from here)

Not a lot to add here, yet, other than the fact that I’m wondering if a pedagogy of wabi-sabi can be implemented in thinking spatially about classroom design and instruction.

[Somewhat related, I'm wondering if I can use a wabi sabi aethetic as an excuse to continue postponing the cleaning of my house. No? I guess you're, right.]

2010 05 17 antero Technology
Things That Interest Me That Do Not Interest You
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Little Thing: What is Travis Teaching?

A possibly new ongoing series, I will take photos of Travis Miller’s whiteboard without context for public speculation about what he is teaching. You are encouraged to make guesses in the comments below.

2010 05 09 antero Manual Arts
What is Travis Teaching?
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AERA Slides, Papers, and Pep Talks (Oh My!)

I’ve embedded my slides for my AERA presentation, “Can You Hear Me Now?: Student Voice in the Battle For Cell Phone Use in a Less Than Receptive School” below. I’ve reused some of these slides for various presentations at this point and I feel ready to retire most of this for something newer on the next go around.

I will make the paper that Rema Reynolds and I have authored for our presentation, “Hip-Hop ‘Hypocrisy’: New Teacher Perceptions of Critical Pedagogy and Student Experiences in ‘Critical’ Classrooms” available here soon.

Also, I wanted to share a couple of pep talks from the Council of Youth Research below. The first is from Manual Arts High School senior, Gaby Dominguez and the second from UCLA Education Professor Ernest Morrell. Enjoy.

Gaby Dominguez Gives A Pep Talk from Antero Garcia on Vimeo.

Ernest Morrell Speaks to the Council of Youth Research from Antero Garcia on Vimeo.

2010 05 03 antero Black Cloud
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AERA Triptych

Three context-free, AERA-related images:

[I'm trying to do my best to lay low at AERA this year; it's too cold for my frail SoCal disposition and I'm too in need of serious focus time for quals in T-Minus one week. That being said, with four presentations and receptions and general networking, I'm sure I'll have my fair share of AERA critique to share at some point (as I've had in years past).]

2010 04 30 antero Things That Interest Me That Do Not Interest You
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