It’s Time To Think Differently About Writing In The Classroom

Limiting the craft of writing to a single content area has altered the landscape of students’ minds in ways that are only now being revealed as math teachers are told to teach writing. Students are now used to flinging rudimentary understandings on exit slips in broken sentence fragments, taking notes that neatly curate other people’s ideas, and otherwise ducking the responsibility to craft compelling arguments that synthesize multiple perspectives on a daily basis.

Back To School Social-Emotional Basics: Relationship, Rhythm, Release

As our elementary students head back to school in person, in this very new way, there will be many emotions stirred up in them. Alarm. Frustration. Worry. Excitement. And this will be mirrored by what we, as adults, may also be experiencing. For our teachers, on top of what they will be emotionally experiencing themselves, they are being called to be the caring leaders that guide our students to a place where they can learn together.

The Challenge Of Global Learning In Public Education

In high-stakes testing environments prevalent in many formal learning institutions, the focus is on standards and standard-mastery. ā€˜Globalization’ is a haughty kind of ā€˜pie in the sky’ idea thought about only when watching one of the ā€œShift Happensā€ videos on YouTube, or daydreaming on the drive home from a challenging day in the classroom where there is time to honestly reflect on—in solitude—the kind of education teachers can only dream they could provide students.

Exactly How Technology Can Make Reading Better

Through apps with social components, readers can be connected through texts. Reading groups, reading contests, reasons for reading, book suggestions, building social credibility for the process of reading, and more are possible when reading is, at least on some level, a social act.

Why Public Schools Should Continue To Use Remote Learning

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The Definition Of Synchronous Learning

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Creating Students Who Solve Problems

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The Benefits Of Using Technology In Learning

While technology opens new horizons for education at home, adapting to this is more challenging. What are the pros and cons of remote teaching technology? Education is one of the sectors hardest hit by the COVID-19 lockdown with social distancing…

Are You Prepared For The Future Of Social Learning?

Social Learning: A Way of Life With the Internet exploding with information resources and tools for learning, teachers can be facilitators of information with a greater emphasis on explanation and critical thinking as opposed to the dissemination source. Formal learning…

4 Ways We Can Avoid Workplace Burnout

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Leading Your Workforce Through Uncertainty

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