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Daylist Delights

 I was recently listening to my Summer Camp 2010s Monday playlist on Spotify and bopping along to Daya's "Sit Still, Look Pretty" when I thought about how happy the daylist concept makes me. 

Do I want to listen to some of those songs? No. 

But do I feel seen, respected, and valued by the AI that took the time to get to know my music and make a little list with a funky name just for me? Absolutely. 

So, as the year draws to a close, I encourage all of us to daylist our classroom whenever possible to successfully survive this last stretch. At this point in the year, we know our students well. Some of them too well. Use that knowledge to create activities that introduce students to some new ideas, create interventions to meet students where they are, or just find some fun games to end the year with a smile.

Some lists I've curated to meet whatever needs you have this May:

Daylist 1: Rage Girl Dinner Monday Morning

***For the moments when you need structure to decrease the management rage

Catlin Tucker's Reciprocal Teaching Roles

Visible Thinking Routines for Any Subject

Station Rotation Model Display

EL Education Protocols

Daylist 2: Influential Mathy Wednesday Afternoon

***For the moments when you need feedback and intervention to meet student needs

MTSS Social-Emotional Behavior Intervention List

NWEA's Formative Assessment Toolkit

Edutopia's 53 Ways to Check for Understanding

CASEL Strategies for Gathering Student Feedback

Daylist 3: Electric Guitar Teen Angst Thursday Night

***For the moments when you need fun strategies to overcome all that angst in the last month of school

Cult of Pedagogy's Lame Duck Blog Post

Byrdseed's Random Emoji Story Generator

AJ Juliani's 11-Minute Essay

Matt Miller's Game Templates

Listen to the songs you like; let the others go. If the urge strikes, make a daylist for your students with fun names and activities they can choose to do based on your AI-like knowledge. Even better, ask the students to create a daylist for a concept in your curriculum. What fun name would the daylist have? What "songs" would be on it?

The delights of the daylist are endless. I hope you all have a Chillhop Poetry Wednesday Morning.



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