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Education A Noble Profession with Tom Braddock Transformative Principal 172
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Tom Braddock is the principal of Evergreen Elementary in Woodbury, New Jersey.
- Planning to go into politics, changed to education
- Alternative Routes to Education licensure.
- Alternatives to Violence
- School Without Walls
- World peace starts with me
- Me -> Community -> Country -> World
- What can I do on a daily basis to be more positive productive and peaceful?
- Nonviolent protests
- Practicality of the class
- World hunger simulation
- The Wave - Book about “the classroom experiment that went too far.“
- Ed Leadership Sims
- How to deal with negative aspects - build the support structure long beforehand.
- 4 simple classroom rules: 1. Keep it Disney 2. Be prepared 3. Be active 4. Be here
- You can’t teach them until you reach them.
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