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Teaching Is Establishing The Need To Know

‘Not knowing’ is clumsy, precise label for the starting point of learning. Teaching is, at least in part, establishing the need to know.

There’s no reason a ‘school’ can’t become a tech-infused place-based learning environment that focuses on literacy and civic participation.

What are the primary factors of academic performance? While literacy skills and background knowledge matter, so does motivation.

Backward design encourages you to plan for a destination not by anticipating but visualizing the end and planning backward from there.

Whether or not they’re accurate, how you’re perceived–and how your school, grade level, content area, and course are thought of–matters.

What Does Every Teacher Need In Order To Grow? by Terry Heick Teaching can do weird things to you. It

Apple set out to innovate textbooks and it just might work. But innovation in textbooks only results in innovative textbooks.

Teachers always need tools, strategies, and ideas but sometimes it’s the less obvious factors that determine their long-term success.