Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Category: Education

  • The sleepless season

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    Research has shown us loud and clear how important sleep is to learning, and has also shown us that teenagers’ sleep patterns are different than children’s. So let’s get this straight: Spring is not “sleepless season for students.” It’s a ritual that we have chosen and can just as simply discard.

  • Separating individuals from the crowd

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    There is very little understanding out in the wider community of families that those of us with kids like this just got the kids we got. It’s not our fault, nor can we take credit for it. And just as parents of developmentally disabled kids got a package that they need to accept whole and…

  • Why we’re homeschooling high school

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    There are some homeschoolers who start in high school. Usually these are students who realize that they are wasting their time doing what someone else thinks is important because they have specific interests of their own that they want to pursue. Sometimes new high school homeschoolers are kids who are just having trouble figuring out…

  • Unreasonable expectations, part 2

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    This is a second in a two-part piece about the current state of educational testing in our K-12 schools. The first half covered the reliability of standardized testing, whether we should be using standardized tests for younger children, and digital educational design. Click here to read Part 1. The tests don’t test what we think…

  • Unreasonable expectations, part 1

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    This is the first in a two-part post about the new tests being administered through the Common Core. To find out more background on these tests, visit the Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium. It’s that season again, the one that used to involve lots of filling in of bubbles. This spring, Google is giggling all the…